Sounds like the perfect unicorn startup (ie able to raise) would be deep-learning sales/marketing/engagement copy-writing and follow-up with some human supervision? Reducing CAC and sales staff.
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Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers
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Re: Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers
#12That was a lot of words, so here's an executive summary of how to use the Project Greenlight Framework™: 1. Identify a demand. 2. Find customers who will pay you for your solution. 3. Blog posts. There's also an optional step 1.5: See if anyone's already meeting this need, then proceed regardless of answer. Especially proceed if the answer is yes.
I'm blanking on his name but this sounds like the teachings of The Foundation (thefoundation.com) I have no affiliation, but I recall podcasts where he repeats over and over that you just need to interview small biz and find real pains they'd pay for.
Dane Maxwell might be the person parent is referring to.
https://mixergy.com/interviews/the-foundation-with-dane-maxw...
Re: Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers
#13That was a lot of words, so here's an executive summary of how to use the Project Greenlight Framework™: 1. Identify a demand. 2. Find customers who will pay you for your solution. 3. Blog posts. There's also an optional step 1.5: See if anyone's already meeting this need, then proceed regardless of answer. Especially proceed if the answer is yes.
I'm blanking on his name but this sounds like the teachings of The Foundation (thefoundation.com) I have no affiliation, but I recall podcasts where he repeats over and over that you just need to interview small biz and find real pains they'd pay for.
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Re: Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers
#14Congratulations on your launch, however I wouldn't build any kind of business on Wordpress - the platform itself is just too crap to get any kind of enjoyable work out of it, not to mention the extreme competition from third-world countries keeping the prices down.
Amen!
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#15Congratulations on your launch, however I wouldn't build any kind of business on Wordpress - the platform itself is just too crap to get any kind of enjoyable work out of it, not to mention the extreme competition from third-world countries keeping the prices down.
Processwire.com is the new PHP Lego.
Move on from wordpress
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#16Congratulations on your launch, however I wouldn't build any kind of business on Wordpress - the platform itself is just too crap to get any kind of enjoyable work out of it, not to mention the extreme competition from third-world countries keeping the prices down.
I feel compelled to jump in and defend the platform I've spent most of my time on for the last 5+ years. Yup, it's not Laravel or some other new, beautiful framework that has the luxury of standing on the shoulders of giants. But it's solid enough, it's constantly being updated... both those are technical considerations. We're talking about launching a product people pay for. WordPress powers 25% of the web. I challenge you to considier the potential market for a product for WordPress vs something like Laravel. Which market is bigger, has more eyes, is more established, and is known to spend money?
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#17Congratulations on your launch, however I wouldn't build any kind of business on Wordpress - the platform itself is just too crap to get any kind of enjoyable work out of it, not to mention the extreme competition from third-world countries keeping the prices down.
Processwire.com is the new PHP Lego. Move on from wordpress
Processwire.com is the new PHP Lego.
...because? That is a pretty strong statement, and some reasoning for that would be useful. As it is, your comment is spammy and out of place.
Re: Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers
#18The biggest point I agreed with in the article was: "There's a huge difference between someone telling you they'll buy your product and them actually buying it."
Re: Launching a Product with No Money and No Customers
#19Congratulations on your launch, however I wouldn't build any kind of business on Wordpress - the platform itself is just too crap to get any kind of enjoyable work out of it, not to mention the extreme competition from third-world countries keeping the prices down.
Processwire.com is the new PHP Lego. Move on from wordpress
You've got to give some justification for a claim like that.
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#20Congratulations on your launch, however I wouldn't build any kind of business on Wordpress - the platform itself is just too crap to get any kind of enjoyable work out of it, not to mention the extreme competition from third-world countries keeping the prices down.
I feel compelled to jump in and defend the platform I've spent most of my time on for the last 5+ years. Yup, it's not Laravel or some other new, beautiful framework that has the luxury of standing on the shoulders of giants. But it's solid enough, it's constantly being updated... both those are technical considerations. We're talking about launching a product people pay for. WordPress powers 25% of the web. I challe…
You seem to be comparing apples and oranges - Wordpress is a CMS and Laravel is a web framework - two totally different products aimed at a totally different audience, but let's ignore that for a second.
The fact that 25% of the web is powered by it doesn't mean 25% of the web will actually pay for your solution - they might pay for a third-world competitor's one that's 10x cheaper, or they may not pay for anything at all.
I would also be skeptical about the amount of money you could make on WP vs Laravel or a similar framework. A WP plugin is relatively hard to sell at a good price (let's be honest, with a 100$ price which is pretty steep you're only recouping a little bit of the time spent developing the plugin, and I'm not even talking about mandatory tech support you'll have to provide). Excluding a few outlier plugins that have exploded in popularity, a PHP developer's job at a company or as a freelancer building quality products will earn you way more cash.
Of course this assumes you want to do legitimate business - if we go down the scammy route you could pretty much sell anything - even an empty PHP file - there are a lot of idiots out there who'll happily buy your "magic" plugin based only on your (fake) sales pitch.