Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 3:37 AM UTC

fezzl wrote: post #111

How many people who hit your landing page actually make it to the end of the 3:56 introductory video?

200 people 'viewed' the video on youtube. I don't know how to tell how many watched all the way through.

Around 180 people signed up to be notified when we have an 'official' launch, and over 100 people created an account for themselves.

This story has been on the front page for around 10 hours now.

Don't know how many people hit the landing page until google analytics tells me tomorrow.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:03 AM UTC

matrixownsyou wrote: post #114

kabuks wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Fixed.

it's still there (on my end) http://imgur.com/vamm8 , check the mouse postion on the pic. Feel free to be sponsortive :p http://zemanel.posterous.com/

How on earth did you catch that! Thanks again.

btw, I looked hard for a sponsor link but couldn't find one. might want to make it more visible

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by setori88 » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:14 AM UTC

Mate, think about open sourcing your software and doing a wordpress clone.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:28 AM UTC

ryanf wrote: post #115

kabuks wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Fixed.

It's still showing up with the error for me.

ok, now it's really fixed.

I'm telling you, being on the front page of HN for the whole day is a ride! Totally overwhelming.

More coffee now.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 5:05 AM UTC

SteveC wrote: post #95

kabuks wrote: post #31

Ok, here it is: http://rm.bettermeans.com Guess I didn't need 30 days! This is totally overwhelming. Thank you everyone. Please be generous with your feedback.

It's having problems with Opera. The text is really huge.

Should be fixed now. Bad tag

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 5:08 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #97

kabuks wrote: post #85

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Ok, here's what we cobbled up in the last hour http://rm.bettermeans.com/home/show?page=index

This is what I get: http://imgur.com/dbLty.png Opera on Ubuntu

Fixed. Thanks.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 5:33 AM UTC

Prospect wrote: post #116

I'm late to the party but I have been looking for something exactly like this. To make a tool like this to work, I would need to get the team on board, so I'll probably wait a bit for the initial bugs to get worked out, But we'll be a customer...just do regular email updates so I know when to jump in.

Will do. Thanks for the encouraging words.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 5:36 AM UTC

setori88 wrote: post #123

Mate, think about open sourcing your software and doing a wordpress clone.

That's a very valid option, and we're giving it a lot of thought (come on board and think with us!)

Our business itself is open though, so anyone welcome to join us (no permission needed from anyone) and contribute to the code base, and gain equity.

As a member of bettermeans, you still can't take the code and run it elsewhere, but you do get full access to it in order to contribute to it.

So it's more 'shared' source, and 'open' business.

My sense is the wordpress business model works with very large numbers, and an already established community. Two things we don't have.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by nandemo » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 6:05 AM UTC

kabuks wrote: post #93

ericingram wrote: post #77

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Great, merit based compensation could be a powerful way to run a company. I sincerely agree with your belief that purpose-driven enterprises are more successful, especially when that purpose is to produce a fantastic product. I read a bit of your "open enterprise manifesto" (which is way too long to read in my opinion, but that may not be your goal), and found conflict with this statement: "We made our government dem…

I agree with what you're saying. The system of government is definitely far from perfect. The reference to it in our manifesto is that we at least see the value of democracy in our attempt to govern ourselves politically, but have made very few strides in that in our attempts to govern our businesses. I would trust our government much more if it ran all its work transparently on bettermeans, and allowed me to vote, d…

Viktor Frankl's video (at the link above) is amazing.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by vkdelta » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 6:56 AM UTC

Mabrook! Good work. Few cosmetic issues on main page. Remove "!" in "read more!" button. Does not look professional. There are some minor language errors on the main page which need to corrected.

On pricing page(http://rm.bettermeans.com/front/pricing.html) please change to 'take a tour' from 'watch the tour'. Surprisingly it there was only one video after clicking the button. I was expecting multiple videos to highlight features of your product. Include Safari 5 on browser list.

Made a good decision by announcing it to the public. Hopefully, it will make up and running smoothly soon.