For the past 7 years of my business career I’ve been part of companies that make money and grow each year. I believe that in order for a business to make money or get some level of success, at least some people have to like or even love the product or service you sell.
While people can like or love a product, it’s not every day that people find something that changes the lives of people or becomes a huge part of someone’s daily life.
This year… after 7 years of building companies I finally know what it’s like to have a product like that and ironically, it’s our only product that doesn’t yet make money or have any revenue streams. That product is called Dayre.
You see we launched Dayre quietly about a year ago. We never really knew the exact date because its initial launch was meant to be a beta launch. Just to a small group of users. It quickly grew far beyond that. The users that tried it loved it and more and more people got on to it. Before we knew it we had a viral mobile blogging app that was going out of control.
Immediately we knew it was something we had to constantly invest more and more into. So in the next year we poured more and more of our own money into it and a year passed so quickly we had even forgotten that it was Dayre’s birthday until we started getting birthday cards.
I’ll show you some of them here.
We started getting lots of birthday cards and personal letters addressed to Dayre about how Dayre plays a huge part of their lives and how it has made things better for them. It was amazing.
We even got really super long heartfelt letters like this too.
In total we counted over a 100 cards sent to us in just the past couple of weeks.
It reminded us what we were doing all this for. What we were investing time, money and sweat into. Into this one product that people love… and that perhaps one day this product will change the lives of not millions but hundreds of millions of people around the world.
To the Dayre community who contribute to the millions of photos, videos and comments…. thank you for sharing your story.
This is the first time Netccentric has built something that so many people love. And we’re gonna continue to give it our all.
If you haven’t yet been on Dayre, please go download it on the App Store or Google Play!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space