Title: Small background: We are the team that founded by ex-Telegram developer and we try to create something like &quot;Slack&quot;. When we started, Slack wasn&#x27;t so cool and only last 2-3 months people started to ask us &quot;how you differ from Slack?&quot;.<p>We created the high-performance platform that could deliver messages at worst networks fast. We can handle the good amount of simultaneous connections at once (sorry no numbers) and deliver messages at very high rate. We don&#x27;t solve any specific problem; this is just good messaging platform that works on Android, iOS, and Web. Platform means that we can easily integrate, customize systems.<p>For now we burn all our money (~100k$), and we are even not started to sell something. We are tech guys, and we can&#x27;t do sales for now and we don&#x27;t have money for this. This strategy is my (as CEO) huge mistake, of course.<p>We think that we can:
1) Raise more money. But without any traction? We have just good dev team in Russia (and we want to leave this country).
2) Fire all team and start selling by founders and make some basic traction.
3) Wait for luck.<p>All this cases seems to be unreal; no one gives us money for now, and I can&#x27;t give something to investors. It is hard to sale in our domestic market because of business culture and current economic situation (during winter we lose 50% of our money just because of currency exchange rate changing).<p>What can we do in this situation?<p>P.S.: Right now we are preparing our sources to release, and they will be available in a week or two.<p>P.S.S.: Anyone can join experimental chat by opening URL: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quit.email&#x2F;join&#x2F;a8086c23dbaf9f0f7c5003844774e61dfef6d571dd37baa0c28d48fe5012171a
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