Koo shutting downš«”: A big hit to Indian social media apps.
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Rohit Nevkar
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Why India don't have it's own self developed, sustainable and successful Social Network Platform?
Why Koo or any such Indian social media platform failed?
Why some social media works and some don't ?
Facebook - worked.
Twitter - worked.
Reddit - worked.
Medial - working. Pretty successful till date. And etc.
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Blue learn - Failed.
Koo - Failed.
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So the Q is why ?
Why KOO Failed?
Product Superiority : Koo aimed to disrupt rather than create a new category, needing to be significantly better ( for users and brands) than X.com. Achieving this required time and capital, scarce during a funding downturn. One inte
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Jaswanth Jegan
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ā2 million daily active users to Failureā
Billions to Bankruptcy #11
Koo was founded in 2020 by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka as a microblogging platform for Indians in multiple languages.Initially experienced a rapid rise due to its p
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AjayEdupuganti
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Koo shut down trying to replace Twitter (X).
Twitter thrives on drama and toxicity, and Koo thought they could do build a platform free of this toxicity.
Newsflash: no drama, no audience.
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Sajin
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I worked with Mayank back during the Goodbox days, a very soft spoken person. Despite of what markets play, an entrepreneur keeps building one thing or other until they receive a key success.
But what killed the Koo bird?
1. Differentiation:
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Sad to see what happened with Koo. We need Indian social platforms but " recreating what already exists won't get us there."
Bhavish Agarwal on koo closure.