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Re: Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems

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you want me to be honest? This feels like a feature to me, not a business. Very hard to get traction with something like this.

Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?

Re: Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems

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post #11

you want me to be honest? This feels like a feature to me, not a business. Very hard to get traction with something like this.

Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?

well, that's the problem. Getting traction is going to be very difficult with this. You're expecting people to find, or remember this site next time they need to brainstorm something. It's basically a stand-alone "feature".

Marketing is difficult, but more importantly, getting visitors to stick is going to be extremely difficult.

If, on the other hand, you do something bigger, such as create a brainstorming resource site with tips, tricks, and all sorts of useful stuff that will attract visitors - this could be a nice feature to add to that site.

Re: Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?

well, that's the problem. Getting traction is going to be very difficult with this. You're expecting people to find, or remember this site next time they need to brainstorm something. It's basically a stand-alone "feature". Marketing is difficult, but more importantly, getting visitors to stick is going to be extremely difficult. If, on the other hand, you do something bigger, such as create a brainstorming resource…

What did you think of soneca's suggestion of essentially having a widget that lives in popular project management apps / gmail, that provides this functionality at the click of a button?

Re: Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems

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Interesting. We're targeting business problems and coworkers since workers have better incentives to contribute (compared to friends), and businesses can see tangible cash value from being more creative. The thought was that if a coworker sent you an invite/email saying - "I want your ideas on this", it'd be hard for you to not contribute. But I'm hearing that it breaks the work flow too much to expect people to leav…

I like the way you worded the email here "soneca just...". I think you will have to test a lot your copywriting, it looks to me that this will make all the differece in the world for your product. When/if you implement it using email tell me, I would love to try it on a real world situation.

We definitely will.

Re: Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?

well, that's the problem. Getting traction is going to be very difficult with this. You're expecting people to find, or remember this site next time they need to brainstorm something. It's basically a stand-alone "feature". Marketing is difficult, but more importantly, getting visitors to stick is going to be extremely difficult. If, on the other hand, you do something bigger, such as create a brainstorming resource…

I think we were also thinking of it as a platform for community thought. Imagine embedding a brainstorm widget at the end of your blog article to get ideas for a problem your company is solving.
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