This was a year ago, I can't find the video I used, it was also max 5-10 seconds. I remember I did the video by recording powerpoint slides, so I used phone or screen recording to record and then each slide of the powerpoint would move to the next one when I clicked or wanted animations. The powerpoint slides had pictures and texts. It was very amateur.
I contacted them through Instagram and explained my app and asked if they wanted to post the video for me. Some said yes. Some didn't. I think I also framed it as marketing experience for them too but I'm not too sure what I said exactly, I didn't really have any money at the time. Also some were friends of friends of friends and it wasn't as strange in asking them to post but I still didn't know these people.
I'm not as focussed on the app anymore and sometimes maintain it, I keep it more as a side project link for my resume.
Overall, you just need to be brave enough to message them, I was a bit shy and unsure at first and then afterwards I got used to it because it's easier to communicate online and it was the cheapest alternative I could think of.
Ok, thanks for the info :- ) I imagine they might have thought the app was a bit cool — to me, "anonymous chat with friends" sounds like something I'd be curious about trying out. Maybe one would get to hear some of one's friends private thoughts, which they now could share, when being anonymous? And maybe they wouldn't say weird and rude things (like often happens in anonymous forums, right) because they were one's friends? — So I slightly suspect the ones you reached out to, wanted to be the first ones, to tell their friends about this new and maybe cool thing.
Yea I based it on the popular and on the rise apps on the appstore which were like anon chat or live video chatting with strangers. Not sure why but they all have millions of downloads and they aren't reported as much in the media.
This was the app, I'm in Canada: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/lucid-see-who-likes-you/id12...
I contacted them through Instagram and explained my app and asked if they wanted to post the video for me. Some said yes. Some didn't. I think I also framed it as marketing experience for them too but I'm not too sure what I said exactly, I didn't really have any money at the time. Also some were friends of friends of friends and it wasn't as strange in asking them to post but I still didn't know these people.
I'm not as focussed on the app anymore and sometimes maintain it, I keep it more as a side project link for my resume.
Overall, you just need to be brave enough to message them, I was a bit shy and unsure at first and then afterwards I got used to it because it's easier to communicate online and it was the cheapest alternative I could think of.