[ANN][ICO] SOMA - The Social Marketplace

[Rigorous]

By the way, just stumbled about a German article in which a social network called “fancy” got mentioned. It seems it is a French social marketplace platform. Does someone has experience with it? Is it good? I would like to know if there is demand for something like Soma.

Nice find. They are focusing on fancy stuff you do not need.

Soma is not so clear about what kind of goods they like to see on their platform. Or who their target audience is.

Examples we have seen so far in Soma's documents:

- a model airplane
- second hand clothing
- second hand books
- a chair
- vintage white bicycle in good condition
- prefect summer dress
- Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 Releases for 2016
- a used guitar from a musician with a lot of followers
- oil
- raw materials and commodities
- a carpet made as a handcraft in a certain country
- vintage, art and valuable goods

First they will launch the network in their own country, they will see how successful this is. Such things are sold exclusively within the same city most often. Otherwise, sending a large-sized thing can cost more than the thing itself.

I wonder how those interactive cards are going to look for oil.

"I love this Oseberg crude, it has such a delicate fragrance. Although not as mild as the Texas light sweet, it damn well beats the Dubai and Urals. AAA+++ would tank again."

[SEELE^^01]

i like the community of soma. everyone is pretty active, questions a lot and gets good answers, overall the community is growing good

hope this will even hold on after the end of the ico.

[the_donald]

i like the community of soma. everyone is pretty active, questions a lot and gets good answers, overall the community is growing good

hope this will even hold on after the end of the ico.

that remains to be seen and depends mostly on how the devs work on developing the product.

[sockpuppet1911]

I think, they must look to Pinterest (which goods popular there) and put similar good to own marketplace.

It's not up to SOMA to decide which products people will put in the market, I think that as long as they are legal products, everything can be sold

You mean by legal in Finland to sell? I am wondering that would they need to follow Finnish marketing rules as well...

[Elkmar]

Every platform will be replaced at one point, even facebook at some point in future. The question is when and with what kind of platform/why there is need to. Instagram will also be replaced at one point in future, that’s a normal process.

You are right about this.

Even if soma had great success and become mainstream it will be replaced either.

They will only be replaced if something is 10x better. Anything that is 2x better wont conquer the market.  Its a general rule in buseniss:
http://www.businessinsider.com/your-product-needs-to-be-10x-better-than-the-competition-to-win-heres-why-2011-3?international=true&r=US&IR=T

Hard to understand how you can gauge that a platform is ten times better than another.

[bitcoin-shark]

I think, they must look to Pinterest (which goods popular there) and put similar good to own marketplace.

yes is most similar to pinterest than facebook in my opinion,just see in their documents that have a wide choice of stuff they want to put on platform,this is a good thing for me...

[FIEX]

i like the community of soma. everyone is pretty active, questions a lot and gets good answers, overall the community is growing good

hope this will even hold on after the end of the ico.

Yes the community is great!
Always nice to see an active thread. Thanks a lot guys for backing this project.

[Tramirostronix]

i like the community on this ANN but telegram is dead  no one talks on it .. it's kinda sad 

[haxllega]

i like the community of soma. everyone is pretty active, questions a lot and gets good answers, overall the community is growing good

hope this will even hold on after the end of the ico.

Yes the community is great!
Always nice to see an active thread. Thanks a lot guys for backing this project.

Such a project like soma needs a big community to run their platform. It's very important to have such an active community to get enough people to use it.

[Sozialtourist]

i like the community on this ANN but telegram is dead  no one talks on it .. it's kinda sad 

To be honest, the communication here in this thread wasn't ideal either before they decided to hire a community manager. Maybe they have the same problem on Telegram, too. That there is nobody who from the team with enough time to answer all the questions.

[Trrrt]

The communication is good, and now with the new community manager it will go even better, look the team give the talk to the community about the liquidity reserve, it’s pretty good and a nice way to manage the community and reward the support. Soma is a good project and will go far I think.

[lobat999]

i like the community on this ANN but telegram is dead  no one talks on it .. it's kinda sad 

As for me I would prefer to discuss all about SOMA in this thread rather than in Telegram because it is not ideal for lengthy discussions.

[Sozialtourist]

i like the community of soma. everyone is pretty active, questions a lot and gets good answers, overall the community is growing good

hope this will even hold on after the end of the ico.

Yes the community is great!
Always nice to see an active thread. Thanks a lot guys for backing this project.

Such a project like soma needs a big community to run their platform. It's very important to have such an active community to get enough people to use it.

Yes the success of the whole project will depend on whether there is a big community that uses Soma to sell and buy things

[toolucky98]

i like the community on this ANN but telegram is dead  no one talks on it .. it's kinda sad 

As for me I would prefer to discuss all about SOMA in this thread rather than in Telegram because it is not ideal for lengthy discussions.

Yes they already have a community manager for this thread now

[Voltaje]

i like the community on this ANN but telegram is dead  no one talks on it .. it's kinda sad 

As for me I would prefer to discuss all about SOMA in this thread rather than in Telegram because it is not ideal for lengthy discussions.

But the responses could be immediate, so it could be good for small words discussions, big ones would be better here where you could write a better argument for a discussion, but anyway, the ICO is doing great, we just need a little more communication.

[imtiazmahmood]

is there any official news about soma which exchange will be listed? i think soma have number of good reputation in market. so soma team will be chose good exchange, so that will be plus point for soma Project.

[pynetx]

is there any official news about soma which exchange will be listed? i think soma have number of good reputation in market. so soma team will be chose good exchange, so that will be plus point for soma Project.

It's better if they avoid low volume and less reputed exchanges in the beginning because it reflects a project's standard and future.

[Yasemin]

I think what they are trying to do is to create something completely new market 2.0, so i dont think we need to worry about it being similar to what we are used now.

If you want to be successful as a new social platform, you really have to make a difference. I think using incentives is a good way to attract new users. I wonder how SOMAs marketing strategy on this will be.

their marketing strategy so far has been lacking, which is one of the reasons the ICO is not going too great. they really need to step up.

Can you explain why you think their marketing strategy has been lacking, what do you miss? Personally I saw some advertisements on social media.

[ubercool]

is there any official news about soma which exchange will be listed? i think soma have number of good reputation in market. so soma team will be chose good exchange, so that will be plus point for soma Project.

It's better if they avoid low volume and less reputed exchanges in the beginning because it reflects a project's standard and future.

I think HitBTC would be ok for a new coin, They have a good population and people dont just dump there like they usually do on Etherdelta.

[Piggy]

I think what they are trying to do is to create something completely new market 2.0, so i dont think we need to worry about it being similar to what we are used now.

If you want to be successful as a new social platform, you really have to make a difference. I think using incentives is a good way to attract new users. I wonder how SOMAs marketing strategy on this will be.

their marketing strategy so far has been lacking, which is one of the reasons the ICO is not going too great. they really need to step up.

Can you explain why you think their marketing strategy has been lacking, what do you miss? Personally I saw some advertisements on social media.

I saw it as well, while browsing the internet it pop up some banner about SOMA.