Anu Atluru

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The Startup Ideas Podcast · The blueprint to build a $340k/mo premium dating app · 16 Oct 2024 podcast

So I think you could also do like, all right, obvious status symbol these days is like, what's your follower count, like on Instagram, or TikTok, or YouTube, or

twitter and you know it's like kind of funny i feel like these days people are like i have a combined 250 000 followers across all platforms so like i don't know there's some interesting ways to think about it that way i think those are probably like the ones that would be easiest to filter for but to be honest i think there's like you know a lot more things where you could be somewhat subjective about your criteria which is just like what influence level do you have or like what circles are you in like

even like looking at the who else follows this person would be like such an interesting metric to figure out like how much clout they essentially have or how much status they essentially have, even if they only have like 5K followers or 10K followers.

So, I mean, I'm not gonna list like 10 or 20 that are strictly visible online, but you kind of get the gist of like where you could actually parse it out and find those lanes.

You have to tell me what you think your top one or two status symbols are that you're seeing these days too.

30-ish, I think. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think so. I mean, I know for sure they raised a seed at the beginning, and I'm sure they did another round, but I'm sure they also got a bunch of equity in Match when they sold.

Hundreds a month up to a couple of thousand a month.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they started testing some version of this on Tinder or whatever their other apps are somewhat soon after this.

Yeah.

So one reason why I say that and why I think it's interesting is like, okay, obviously with a lot of these products, part of the game is like, how can you actually like get people to be talking about it? Like you could argue that maybe if it's super high status luxury, like, you know, velvet rope stuff, you actually don't want a lot of people talking about it. But I don't know.

I kind of think the name of the game these days is you kind of do want it to have some, you know, hanger appeal or whatnot. So like, I think the more specific you make it and the more like remarkable in the sense that people want to talk about it, you make it like the more interesting your early traction will be.

I wouldn't necessarily say like in the longterm, just YC is an amazing, like, you know, dating app, but like, I think there's something to thinking about, not just like, okay, this is a dating app for pedigreed people. That's like, okay, cool. But it doesn't quite have the same hook.

People who follow... Oh, like, yeah, I think... So there's like status where it's like I can wear the status myself or there's status like who am I in the room with, right? And so you're like looking at the people who I'm in the room with and implicitly thinking I have high status. So online, you know, that'll be like who else is following me on Twitter?

You know, like you're following me on Twitter or Paul Graham's following me on Twitter or whatever. like Elon Musk is following me on Twitter. It's like, okay, even if I only have like tens of thousands of followers, maybe I actually am a high status or accomplished, like up and coming person that is worthy of being included in some pool.

Yeah. This is already sounding like super, like, super like game the system. Like I'm looking, what is it? Like the trust fund six, five, like blue eyes finance. Honestly, you probably make an app like for that if you actually want it to. But at the same time, I don't know.

There's like something between this being crazy and something like also to say that there is a lot of pragmatism in like some of these things that people are actually like subconsciously, if not consciously caring about. So.

I'm not on the dating scene either, but like, I don't know enough people are, especially like if you're doing anything in social or if you're online, it's just like, you can't avoid being kind of like slapped in the face with this and like loneliness and dating and how to meet people. So I think it's interesting. Like it's like a giant social experiment.

Ask like more LA, like Hollywood adjacent.

I would say. And obviously I feel like a lot of tech people are, have been trying to get onto it and maybe have succeeded or maybe have not succeeded. Um, yeah. I mean, you could do levels, you could do like, you know, 10 K followers I feel like was a thing for a while. And then it's like a hundred K followers and, Now it's probably like a million, depending on how you slice it.

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