So you are planning to go to Glacier National Park this August, but all your friends are busy. You want to do a backcountry hike but Glacier is full of bears and you would just feel better if you had a small group. How can you get a group? You start posting in various platforms to look for people. Well, how about if you could just type the name of the park for your dates and find others who will be at Glacier on the same timeline. That is exactly what we are doing in GAFFL. Using GAFFL, a user can find people to travel, hike or climb in a group. They can plan with others on their time-slots.
GAFFL has just hit 1000. The platform is now used by more than 1000 hardcore adventurers. Starting something from scratch is always hard. When we started GAFFL on May 21, there were 5 of us. A platform with an enormous potential, but zero real user. It felt good because after weeks of hard work, we could finally create what we wanted to. But the real work had just started.
We wanted to grow ‘right’. Not everyone around us need GAFFL. We knew it. So we reached out to hardcore travelers and adventurers who we felt needed this platform the most. We gave the link to travelers and adventurers around us and asked for their feedbacks. As the word started to get out, more and more people were trying to find hikers, climbers, backpackers and travelers on their time-slots. Based on the initial feedbacks, we started to iterate the product. We just wanted to make sure that our initial users absolutely love it. At the end of June, the product was much better. Users started to let us know that they are loving what we were doing. We felt it was time to reach out to a little more people. In July, GAFFL grew 300%.
We would like to thank every one of the first 1000 users for trusting and supporting us, every individual who gave us precious feedback, shared GAFFL and inspired us till now. We have a long way to go and can only go forward with your love and support. No matter how many people use GAFFL years from now, the first thousand will always be the first thousand.
If you know or come across people who are looking for others to travel, hike or climb in a group, please let them know about GAFFL. We do not have any major advertising campaign and we plan to keep things that way. We want to grow through word of mouth. Share GAFFL in Facebook, Reddit and other platforms where people are continuously looking for others to travel, hike or climb in a group.
Akib Amin
Founder, GAFFL
akib@gogaffl.com
