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Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

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I run an online appointment scheduling software ( http://www.appointmind.com/ ). The software stack is PHP and MySQL on Ubuntu. I do this alongside my my freelancer job.

Do you mind me asking how you market that? I tried something similar in the past and couldn't get consistent sign ups.

Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

#13

I run an online appointment scheduling software ( http://www.appointmind.com/ ). The software stack is PHP and MySQL on Ubuntu. I do this alongside my my freelancer job.

Do you mind me asking how you market that? I tried something similar in the past and couldn't get consistent sign ups.

I do Google Adwords (profitable, but no great volume), SEO, advertorials (profitable, too), guest blog posting (meh), Twitter, APIs (MailChimp, GetResponse), small business coaches, white label solution for partners, partners in general (web directories, homepage builders).

Getting sign ups is a very slow process. Can be frustrating from time to time.

Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

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post #12

My primary focus is running these two SAAS apps http://rotaville.com/ - employee scheduling, rosters, rota management http://Big.first.name/ - print awesome name badges for your event These apps are built on a mixture of technologies including Rails, postgresql and backbone.js

What is the javascript framework you use for rotaville? Is a single app packaged across iOS, Android and mobile web? It looks pretty good.

Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

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post #12

My primary focus is running these two SAAS apps http://rotaville.com/ - employee scheduling, rosters, rota management http://Big.first.name/ - print awesome name badges for your event These apps are built on a mixture of technologies including Rails, postgresql and backbone.js

What is the javascript framework you use for rotaville? Is a single app packaged across iOS, Android and mobile web? It looks pretty good.

The Rotaville web interface is mixture of backbone.js models along with my own solution for view routing, view rendering/templating and also keyboard controls.

Rotaville mobile is available on the web and also iOS and Android (using phonegap/cordova). The backbone.js models are re-used from the web app. jquery-mobile is used for the view styling and transitions.

Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

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We've built LeaseMatrix (http://lease.io/) over the last 18 months. The stack is Linux/Apache/MySQL/Rails along with Bootstrap and Javascript. The app is a web-based alternative to a spreadsheet for commercial lease analysis and comparison. We (obviously) use Bootstrap 2.3 with very little customization, as most of our development focus has been on the backend thus far because it is heavily finance focused with many complexed calculations. We use AWS and Rackspace for hosting. Other apps we use include Stripe (love it), Intercom (love it), Optimizely (love it), Google Maps API, Google Charts API, Feedjit and Wordpress (for blog only). We've played around with integrating KISSMetrics and considered Mixpanel, but our traffic volume is such that Google Analytics + Intercom + Feedjit works well enough for now.

Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the javascript framework you use for rotaville? Is a single app packaged across iOS, Android and mobile web? It looks pretty good.

The Rotaville web interface is mixture of backbone.js models along with my own solution for view routing, view rendering/templating and also keyboard controls. Rotaville mobile is available on the web and also iOS and Android (using phonegap/cordova). The backbone.js models are re-used from the web app. jquery-mobile is used for the view styling and transitions.

Sorry, diod not phrase my question right. I meant to ask what is the UI framework you used? The one that creates touch phone like interface and look-n-feel.

Re: Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Rotaville web interface is mixture of backbone.js models along with my own solution for view routing, view rendering/templating and also keyboard controls. Rotaville mobile is available on the web and also iOS and Android (using phonegap/cordova). The backbone.js models are re-used from the web app. jquery-mobile is used for the view styling and transitions.

Sorry, diod not phrase my question right. I meant to ask what is the UI framework you used? The one that creates touch phone like interface and look-n-feel.

The UI framework used for our mobile apps is http://jquerymobile.com/
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