How Facebook is screwing our awesome product

Since a couple of month, me and my team are working on an awesome (according to user feedback :)) product. We are building a game for the Facebook platform.

For me this project has an important meaning. I believe that this time we are building a product that actually will get profitable. In our projects before we always had the ‘hope’ that it will stick, but this time we also have data (at least some of it).

What are the differences about this product and the products before?

• Before: we hadn’t quite a success in our advertisement campaigns
• Now: we have a success (meaning we get the users we want for our budget we set aside)
• Before: our retention rates and some other rates where not even near our estimations
• Now: our retention rates and some other rates meet our estimations
• Before: while working on our product we were also working on our business model (trying to figure out how it could work)
• Now: we have a business model (and a product)

Isn’t this awesome!

What is missing? The ‘BUT‘ is missing. Let’s add it.

BUT Facebook is screwing as badly. We developed our product, put it out there, people are using it BUT they can’t pay us while using it. Even if they would want to.

Do you know why? Because since 2 month we are waiting for Facebook to verify our Company (unfortunately our company is in Turkey and needs to be verified by Facebook before we can accept payments). I tried to contact Facebook multiple times BUT as I see they really don’t care.

Who knew? Facebook, billion dollar company really doesn’t care about entrepreneurs trying to create valuable products for Facebook.

We are still waiting and trying to somehow solve this problem. Otherwise…

Who knows, maybe we will develop a product for Google+ :)

Takeaways: If your business and bank account is not in one of these countries, then before developing anything apply for the verification process.