faisalkhalid

http://www.littlechits.com<br> This is my first web app; I built this on my own, over the past 4 months, using the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a few other e-books, and a lot of help from the Stack Overflow community!<br>Feedback would be greatly appreciated, in particular: how can I make this more social?<br>Thanks,<br>Faisal

Along with my 2 co-founders, I run a startup called ResearchNation.net, which provides user generated reviews for business intelligence reports (like a TripAdvisor, for Datamonitor, Euromonitor reports).

The problem is, after almost 9 months, we're still getting zero traction. I mean, literally zero.

We don't have any reviews. I'm not entirely sure what to do. My overall assessment is that it's a good idea (real problem to be solved - gauging quality) but we're not sure we can solve it on our own. The 2 partners that could help us solve this problem are publishers and resellers; the former hate us (already gotten 1 hate phone call) and the latter see us as competition. So, basically, left to our own devices, we are stuck. And out of cash now.

Frankly, we're open to pivoting to a completely new idea, and our site lends itself well to becoming an 'Airbnb' of x (not in its present state, because we've hidden a lot of stuff we built originally, but you can take my word on it!).

So here's my question - what ideas do you have for things we could morph into? i.e. Airbnb for 'x'? Or, do you think we should just screw it and shut down. I have to admit I do sort of feel that we've now got a solution/platform, and are in search of a problem...

Currently testing it, but have opened up the site for a few days for feedback. Would love to hear what you think of it!