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Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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chejazi wrote: post #81
akharris wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's hard to say without knowing more. On the one hand, paying in btc probably restricts the number of people willing to use your product by virtue of there being not that many people who have btc accounts. On the other hand, it might make you more popular with a small group of people. Most great products start with a core of really happy users, and then expand over time. Do you have users that love you and u…

We've had around 2.8k signups so far (launched in October). We have about 200 users active per day. I just checked and 89 of them have been active in all previous 5 days. We have a few outspoken believers in the concept (< 10). We just solicited feedback from our base and got only 20 responses, so probably could do better there.

Got it - is it growing? How quickly?

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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Post by AbdulBahajaj »

mwseibel wrote: post #25
AbdulBahajaj wrote: post #10

We are not up and running yet. But we are building a subscription management tool that helps SaaS businesses manage , view their user's subscription. We are going to solve a lot of problems that come with subscription like taxes, usage rules, customer portal, price a/b testing , dunning management etc... we are going to support multiple payment gateways like braintree and stripe. We are working on this product becaus…

This sounds like a cool idea - when do you plan on launching your v1?

Thanks, we really appreciate your feedback. We are planning to launch our Beta within February.

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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zbruhnke wrote: post #73
akharris wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the capital requirements are painful, as is the entire process behind getting a charter. How are you figuring out what people actually want? What have you built and how have you started getting it into the hands of customers?

The way we've figured out so far is really learning from a failed past experience. We built a product in the past which was a kind of Yodlee or Plaid competitor ( http://spout.co ) and learned alot of what consumers cared about along the way while never hitting an actual nerve with clients who were willing to pay us money. I think we started like most people would here, by partnering with existing banks. So we have a…

That seems like a pretty good way to start getting relationships with customers. How is it going? What have you learned from seeing how they use your product?

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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kartikkumar wrote: post #90

Hi Michael, Aaron, I'm co-founder of satsearch ( https://satsearch.co ): B2B search for the space industry. Searching for parts to design a satellite is a real pain, especially with the rapid growth of the small-satellite sector. I've worked on designs for a few satellites and spent countless hours trying to Google specs: time that doesn't get spent on engineering. So to solve this problem, we're building parameteric…

Do you have a bigger problem with finding demand for parts, or with listed supply?

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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Post by Headhanchoarod »

Hey Michael and Aaron, thank you for doing this. A few questions I'd love to hear your answer.

What advice would you give to yourself at 21 for launching and building your own startup?

Well being in college or working your day job, what's the most important thing(s) to work on to get your company bootstrapped to take on Full time?

What's your best advice for those applying to the Fellowship program.

Thanks!

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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Post by mwseibel »

[deleted] wrote: post #93

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... for me the question is what is the impact stat you are trying to improve... I'm not if readership is ideal - how about job placements? Then you can analyze your question in the context of whether it will increase job placements.

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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Post by Headhanchoarod »

Hey Michael and Aaron, thank you for doing this. A few questions I'd love to hear your answer.

What advice would you give to yourself at 21 for launching and building your own startup?

Well being in college or working your day job, what's the most important thing(s) to work on to get your company bootstrapped to take on Full time?

What's your best advice for those applying to the Fellowship program.

Thanks!

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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Post by AbdulBahajaj »

mwseibel wrote: post #25
AbdulBahajaj wrote: post #10

We are not up and running yet. But we are building a subscription management tool that helps SaaS businesses manage , view their user's subscription. We are going to solve a lot of problems that come with subscription like taxes, usage rules, customer portal, price a/b testing , dunning management etc... we are going to support multiple payment gateways like braintree and stripe. We are working on this product becaus…

This sounds like a cool idea - when do you plan on launching your v1?

We mainly have two questions.

1) Once we launch how do you sell your product to get the first 50 users. Our best guess is to use ads channels like google ads.

2) How do you approach figuring out problems that users have. The way we are approaching this problem right now is by building features that we wanted previously.

We would also appreciate it if you have any additional advise.

Re: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

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Post by kartikkumar »

akharris wrote: post #95
kartikkumar wrote: post #90

Hi Michael, Aaron, I'm co-founder of satsearch ( https://satsearch.co ): B2B search for the space industry. Searching for parts to design a satellite is a real pain, especially with the rapid growth of the small-satellite sector. I've worked on designs for a few satellites and spent countless hours trying to Google specs: time that doesn't get spent on engineering. So to solve this problem, we're building parameteric…

Do you have a bigger problem with finding demand for parts, or with listed supply?

Supply listing is the bigger problem. Demand seems to be taking care of itself, right up to the big space agencies.

As a side question, we're also not sure whether to grow the suppliers as quickly as we can by offering free listings, or to charge suppliers from the get go.

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