2 months ago, the idea of Pitch.ly was born out of the marketing failure of OneExtraLap. I was frustrated, disappointed, and partially desperate at the time. And I decided to take this revolutionary idea into reality with my buddy Spencer Schoeben.
For those who aren’t clear about the original idea of Pitch.ly, let me explain briefly. The goal of Pitch.ly is to centralize the way startup founders communicate with bloggers. Right now, the pitching process is painful, it’s hard to find blogger’s contact information, it’s hard to show a video demo, and it’s hard to keep them updated with new releases. We are trying to be the place where startups can upload demos/screenshots easily, bloggers can check them out quickly, and be the platform where both sides can communicate efficiently.
A good’ol 50 days has past since I came up with the idea. Thousands of you are curious on what Pitch.ly really is and how we are going to change the way startups pitch. Hundreds of you are eager to be early adopters and enter your email addresses. And I really want to say a big thank-you for everyone’s interest toward Pitch.ly.
But, there are so much happened between these 50 days, so much that I’ve never seen, experienced, and even imagined before. The night of Teens In Tech miniConference, I spent 3 hours building iTunes Instant, attempting to provide a faster speed and cleaner interface for iTunes search. Out of everyone’s imagination, it took off, and it took off pretty wildly. Few days later, a well-respected angel investor, Shervin Pishevar, came to me and pitched me about the idea of peeking other people’s timeline. I truly love the concept and build an alpha of TwtRoulette in approximately 5 days. It was featured on TechCrunch on the day of launch, and it was growing ever since.
As Spencer Schoeben (FYI: he also built FriendsOnAMap & CrunchBase Instant in these 50 days!) pointed out to me, for teenagers working part-time on the web, a smaller niche project will have a much higher success rate than a more serious, elaborated startup. Working on a time-consuming company/product requires people working full-time, having all the resources dedicated to it, and focusing on it 100%. But neither Spencer and I can be able to accomplish that since we are in the middle of high school. We both fear that there are more risk than success if we develop and support Pitch.ly ourselves.
So after some discussions, here’s what we are going to do:
If there are any adults out there who are interested in the idea and think that they can be able to take it into reality and grow it into a business, definitely contact me or Spencer. We can negotiate for more details and get you going!
Thanks everyone for supporting us so far!
