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We had a idea for a group messenger tool to bridge teams and their customers ( http://peer.im ). Then we signed up an advisor to help us on sales and marketing. His is a sales director so he started used this tool in his team. Then we had a media press covered which brings us several dozen of real users who can give us feedback and iterate on features.
Our first customer for our collaboration tool Loomio (htp://www.loomio.org) was the coworking space we were working in and the social enterprise hub that was based there. We built a tool that was instantly useful to them, and in exchange we instantly had 100+ users. We released an extremely "M" MVP and had real users from day one. Because they were using it free and we were building features in response to their dire…
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Hey, thanks! I have actually wondered about the name thing. It is a little whimsical, and I guess it would be easy to mix up with lots of similar descriptions like "a quiet buzz" or "a gentle burble". From that perspective, it might have been better to choose something more memorable. The site won't rank well in google for descriptive terms because it doesn't contain a lot of text. Even for terms it does contain, it…
Perhaps the reason a large portion of the traffic is direct, social etc. is you're far better optimized in these areas. Based on your other comments it seems like you really know what you're doing in these spaces. I'm no expert, but based on all the positive feedback, capturing organic search traffic could help you kill it. Show them and they'll stick.
I tried many options to get to our first 100 users. Tech Blogs (they thought we were to boring to cover) HN (no interest) Reddit (no interest) Ad Words (I think I sucked at it) So I shrugged and kept improving then one day out of the blue, a big Mommy blog covered us for ways to keep up to date on coupons. This one coverage leads to our first 200 users, and then another blog (MakeUseOf) covered us, which then lead to…
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Thanks very much for using it! I built it because I wanted it to exist. I got tired of jury rigging three instances of VLC together on my laptop every time I wanted some background noise.
Ever tried http://coffitivity.com/ ?
Our first customer for our collaboration tool Loomio (htp://www.loomio.org) was the coworking space we were working in and the social enterprise hub that was based there. We built a tool that was instantly useful to them, and in exchange we instantly had 100+ users. We released an extremely "M" MVP and had real users from day one. Because they were using it free and we were building features in response to their dire…
The pay what you want model is interesting - I'd like to know how that's working for you!
At the same time though, we've had massive pull from enterprise customers for consulting to go alongside the tool to help them do really good internal collaboration and culture change to a more distributed leadership model, as well as facilitate constituent and stakeholder collaboration. That's been a significant source of income for us.
Overall, the commitment to "pay what you can" has been core to our model and our values, and we're sticking with it, but we're experimenting with interpreting it in different ways. It's very important to us to both be independently financially sustainable, and to give our tool to groups doing great stuff in their communities regardless of their financial means.