This month has been mostly resetting on a new project, electrade. I’ve been interviewing a bunch of EV owners over the phone to ask for problems, and going to a Golden Gate Electric Vehicle Meetup.

Not much to update on this month. Tracking WAU – 20% week over week growth but at this scale it means nothing.

Help Wanted/Asks:

• N/A

Hiring: 

• N/A

KPIs/Core Metrics:

• Monthly Active Users: 50
• Weekly Active Users: 20
• Daily Active Users: 5-10
• Posts: 0
• Revenue: $0

Experiments/Hypothesis run:

• Electric Vehicle News app.
  • Results: works, but not super differentiated
  • Some retention as an EV news reader app.
• Electric Vehicle Maps
  • Hard to find good data
  • Talked to Plugshare for their API data, but expensive.
• Electric Vehicle price comparison, New
  • Static Data – Scraped off an EV information website. They never update their prices.
    • Not super sensible.
  • Dynamic Data – scraped off autotrader.
    • <10 taps, no retention.
  • Not differentiated from Autotrader.
• Electric Vehicle price comparison, Used & New.
  • <10 taps, no retention.
• Post your own used electric vehicle.
  • 0 taps
• Post your EV to the gallery.
  • 8 taps
  • 0 posts
• Used Teslas near you.
  • Not much interest, lots of competition from EV-CPO.com and onlyusedtesla.com.
  • Talked to two folks who could scrape the CPO (certified pre-owned tesla) data from tesla’s website.
• Hypothesis:
  • People actually want to lease their cars.
  • Test: deal with a tesla lease partner
  • Found ev-vin.blogspot.com

Photos of my new workspace for the past two months, with my hosts/friends of Kosmosschool.com: