Russia, Moscow region
Market: Internet and IT, Culture and art, Education, training, Mobile applications
Stage of the project: Prototype or product is ready
The basic purpose is to create service , which solves problem of expensiveness of books , by changing books between users .
Current Status
Work on site
Market
Booklover , 12-60 years (60% 12-25)
Lives in the city ( >10000 citizens )
Low-mid wealth.
Problem or Opportunity
I work alone - I have to hire good programmers to develop business
Solution (product or service)
Hire friends- it will be less expensive, or try to find anyone who can do it better .
Competitors
Partially : Avito , EBay . But this service has another purpose
Advantages or differentiators
Service will have own events(where people can change books between themselves and in plans to invite some famous writers etc ), videos(for instance: books’ reviews) .
The main difference- community
Finance
1 - add libraries and bookstores (10-20$/ month each )
2 - add sponsor (For each region)
3 - add e-bookstore (for each country)
4 - ad sense google (for the first times)
Money will be spent on
Programmers (part time 500-1000$ Each)
hosting , smpt and google api , (<20$ /month)
PR - storytelling (0$) programs for auto following (5$)
ads by famous artists (undefined)