raimille1

I'm sure this is where many of us are or have been at some point, especially engineer-entrepreneurs, since we are all about the technology and the product. Would love to hear your comments.

I posted a few months ago we released www.heynay.com. We're 2 engineers, a designer and a lawyer with a common problem we wanted to solve: I need X, I only need it this weekend so I don't want to buy it, I need to pick it up locally and I'd like to pay my neighbor for the trouble.

What is heynay? It's a way to securely, conveniently, and inexpensively rent the thing you need when you need it, from your neighbor or someone who lives close to you.

So we build just that; a fully functional end to end neighbor to neighbor, location based, rental platform with integrated payments.

I literally finished the webapp 2 days ago and we're realizing the "build it and they will come" quote is not quite true. We've reached out to our local friends and have seen some engagement, but not the one we expected. People are too busy, and the ones that would use the app probably don't know about it.

We start wondering, did we not build the right solution? Do we explore pivot options? Do we pick our pockets and pay for local marketing? Do we go out on the streets and advertise?

Would love to hear those of you that have been in this spot and some of your comments, I'm always inspired by this community.