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Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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My first reaction: Is this something that companies actually want/need? Have you validated the market? That's ultimately more important than the v0 landing page design.

You're right. I have talked to a handful (<10) of potential customers already. They're willing to try it out and going to share with them over the course of the next week.

willing or eager?

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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You're right. I have talked to a handful (<10) of potential customers already. They're willing to try it out and going to share with them over the course of the next week.

willing or eager?

about 50-50. had a few new signups in the last couple days that were very eager.

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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- I'd recommend you look into Amy Hoy's writings, especially about her "Pain/Dream/Fix" approach to pitching products [1]. Sign up to her newsletter as well. - Colors and logo seem to be inspired from ProductHunt. It's fine to steal (really), but at least be a tad more creative with the logo. - If you're going for a simple page, I wouldn't hesitate to use larger font sizes. - "Designing Web Applications" from Nathan…

Excellent suggestions, thank you! Just to note, really didn't use producthunt as an inspiration. Simply tried to make a "blob" with the letter P in it. Not sure how the colors are similar?

> Not sure how the colors are similar?

The fact that it does look similar to someone is feedback. Take it how it is, but at the end of the day someone is going to think it's inspired by ProductHunt. :)

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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Are you targeting B2B or B2C companies? Of those two, B2B sounds like the obvious choice, but even then, I'm not sure there's enough value for companies to adopt this. What makes you think companies actually want this and are willing to pay money for it?

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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Excellent suggestions, thank you! Just to note, really didn't use producthunt as an inspiration. Simply tried to make a "blob" with the letter P in it. Not sure how the colors are similar?

> Not sure how the colors are similar? The fact that it does look similar to someone is feedback. Take it how it is, but at the end of the day someone is going to think it's inspired by ProductHunt. :)

That's fair :)

Was just curious where OP saw red, navy blue, and teal on producthunt.

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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Are you targeting B2B or B2C companies? Of those two, B2B sounds like the obvious choice, but even then, I'm not sure there's enough value for companies to adopt this. What makes you think companies actually want this and are willing to pay money for it?

I spoke with an admittedly small set of potential companies, both B2B and B2C. There's enough value in replacing the current way of communicating updates with customers which involves: newsletters, notifications, emails, blog posts, release notes, PDFs (B2B mainly), etc.

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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Sorry, the site is a bit broad at the moment (will fix). It's to post new features and product updates in one place. The idea is to replace changelogs, product update emails/blog posts, and release notes.

Out of curiosity, how would this be different from a blog?

A few differences from a blog come to my mind:

Integration with customer SSO, to provide different info for prospect/trial/paying customers or customers with different verticals/needs similar to the marketing landing page concept

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

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If I understand correctly, this is a beautified Changelog, probably with an opt-in (email and/or social media) notifications. Does this also provide means for in-app update checks and downloading updates/binary patches? If it's a Yes for all of the above, then it'll be what most software development shops already have in place (and it's trvially simple to set up compared to all other stuff that they need to do).

I mean - it looks nice, but it doesn't seem to solve any pertinent problems for its target audience.

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