"Find people around you app - Nobody wants to find people around them and meet them. Trust me."
I've been runing a site the last five years for tabletop gamers to do exactly this. It's busier than ever, I'm spending my nights and weekends hacking on it to keep up, and I expect some of the features I'm working on now to make that growth curve noticeably steeper.
There's huge chicken-and-egg problems in this sort of project, but that difficulty is also why they're valuable.
Niche interest and a reason to socially interact with strangers. It gets creepy when my wife checks into Foursquare and sees that the 'Mayor' and 8 other people are there, too. Who cares? She certainly doesn't. She just wants points or some deal or something.
I've been runing a site the last five years for tabletop gamers to do exactly this. It's busier than ever, I'm spending my nights and weekends hacking on it to keep up, and I expect some of the features I'm working on now to make that growth curve noticeably steeper.
There's huge chicken-and-egg problems in this sort of project, but that difficulty is also why they're valuable.