Apply HN: Agora – social network for debates on local and other issues
How will you acquire your first batch of enough users to reach critical mass, where the site becomes an interesting destination rather than a ghost town? This will be your biggest challenge by far.<p>Your competition is not only existing blogs, newspaper comment sections, and discussion forums that already host socially-oriented debate, but also any other place where people spend their free time: Netflix and XBox.<p>How will you reach the people who would be interested in participating in such a forum?<p>When you do reach them, how will you overcome the initial &quot;ghost town&quot; chicken-and-egg problem, where nobody will want to use the forum unless lots of other people are using it already?