Today, June 8th, Scoutle has been online for one month. One month ago, I didn’t know how to get started. I hoped to have 2000 active users by August 8 but had no idea how I was going to get to this amount. I figured I might just had to email bloggers, like personal spamming, but I started with some posts on blogger forums. What happened can be read in previous posts.

For now, I am very happy with the result of one month. A lot of stress, a lot of opinions, hundreds of new users and a lot of press attention. More than expected. I do however know that now is the time to hurry. Current users will probably expect a lot of things to improve and if I don’t install new features, they might even just leave Scoutle again. Even though there’s nothing to loose staying in. What I need now is a community adopting Scoutle and I need to find a way to reach people that are not up-to-date on the latest Internet trends. You don’t know about Scoutle if the news doesn’t reach you.

I hope I can find less Internet related press attention. In magazines or local papers and sports clubs for instance. I also want to contact university magazines but it takes a lot of time.

Should I focus on interviews, which is more personal, or should I go for the “Scoutle explanation” stories?

Anyway, I will now focus more on non-English natives. The small group of Japanese users are meeting each other all the time now. But as long as Scoutle has not been translated into Japanese, only those who understand English can use Scoutle. But where to get the money to translate the site in Japanese? I also think about German, French, Spanish, Portugues, Chinese…

But well, in one month a lot has been reached. Hopefully, I can write even better stories in a post next month!