> It's not the product, I strongly believe we have a decent product. Check your dissonance. It’s the product. There are numerous things I could pick holes in here, most noteably that the product tries to do far too much and probably doesn’t do one thing brilliantly. Personally I’m not going to invest my valuable time in finding out if that’s true. The ask is too big. That said, nobody here is going to be able to give…
If I needed their product, I wouldn't be ready to freelance.
I checked it out from product hunt a couple days ago, and I am your perfect target. Recently started freelancing, trying to figure out all the auxiliary shit I need. I looked around, got a general idea what it was about, but what I really wanted was a demo site. Not a video, which I don't think I bothered to watch, but a demo site I can play with. I am definitely not signing up for $300+ without trying it first. Your…
If you could send me some basic details about yourself, I'd set up a demo and see if this can be useful for you.
How much would you be willing to pay for this per month? If you want to take it private, please email me sanjay@sievehq.com
My comments are about the website your service creates for freelancers, not your (Sieve PRO's) website itself: https://bighead.sievehq.com/ 1. The "Start project with xxxx" button leads to a form which says "Please be ready to spend 15 minutes to complete this process". I think this is going to be a major turn off to many prospective clients of those freelancers. 2. If they enter their email, they get this: https://i…
Thanks for taking time to write in this detail, will go through all of this one by one and do the needful to incorporate this into our product, thanks again! :)
Let's try to visit your site, step by step. First screen - A gratuitous 3D animation shows sample pages from your site. Why didn't you spend that effort to make the pages look better? - There's a profile cover page featuring a portrait of a white hipster with a sad expression, "Nelson Bighetti" from "Silicon Valley". It looks like LinkedIn, but more importantly it is strangely prominent. Moreover, who is he? A mock p…
Back to the features after taking a break. In a few hours the sample pages in the 3D splash have disappeared, leaving more space for Nelson Bighetti (could it be a Silicon Valley publicity stunt rather than an earnest startup?) and a video has been added. - Call scheduling: the calendar is another thing that perspective customers are likely to be already managing on their own in probably better ways. For example, wit…
We've stopped making interim edits, it was when only a few people commented, now it's like waves of feedback :) I'll go through all the comments and work on this, will update you in a few days.
Quick comment after skimming the ProductHunt page: it would appear that you have "half a product", with some promises of future functionality. You've got the easy stuff done. The hard stuff -- the "real", beneficial features (lead gen, invoicing, payments)-- haven't arrived yet. Personally, I've been around long enough to never trust those promises or rely on a "roadmap" of future functionality. If what you have now…
The coupling of freelancers is not a part of Sieve PRO, but a part of Sieve offering, it's very much different from this. Sorry about the confusion.
I've freelanced on the side for a few years. I used to put together a google form for the requirement collection, then send the NDAs on DocuSign,I had a quite number of people asking me to send an NDA before discussing. Quickbooks for accounting and sometimes PandaDoc for agreements. While putting together this product, I wanted to reduce the friction of getting started with freelancing and put together all of these…
Just as another data point for you, we don't generally sign NDAs, and I never did as long as I was freelancing solo either. It's close to 100% downside for the freelancer/consultancy to do that up-front, and it's a rare client whose project is going to be so attractive that we'd make an exception. A basic mutual confidentiality clause in standard terms has always been sufficient IME. So, I started watching your YouTu…
:) Thanks for this feedback. Will consider and work on this.
(I'll work on the first comments) About the last part, how much is the time delay in getting the NDAs signed back? also I've tried taking the requirements over phone/email, but I it usually end up with multiple exchanges while with sieve you can get it all done in one go. Can you please take a quick look at this video, and send a feedback on the requirement collection process? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7wAeenB…
On the NDA specifically, I can't quite work out why I would want my clients to sign an NDA for me. Usually, it's me signing one for them. When I work with my smaller clients, sometimes they say things like "errr, it's super secret, can you sign an NDA before we talk about it", to which I reply with "No problem, here is a standard NDA I use a lot, I've already filled it in and signed it for you, is that enough? If not…
Thank you for the detailed feedback, I do understand very well established freelancers are having a process in place, We are trying to make this for everyone else, not just the pros. If someone is starting freelance, they don't have the process, questionnaire and everything in place. I'll read this again and incorporate the main points :)
Just a simple Input from my side, tested your site with chrome and firefox (both newest version) and IE 11 on windows 8.1 pro. # Firefox with UBlock Origin - Don't Work # Clean Chrome - Don't Work # IE 11 - Don't Work Maybe there is more to this than only your Process of collecting Prospect-Info
First off, I'm not a prospective client, but I have some questions. How can I customize the site? How about custom fields in the client on-boarding wizard? Can I use my own domain? To be honest I don't see anything I couldn't pull off with a CMS, under $10/month in hosting fees and an NDA from Google or thrown together by a paralegal in an hour. I think the product as you built it has legs, but in a different market…
There are no customisations as of now, yes you can use your own domain. Thanks for the feedback, reading this in detail :)
> It's not the product, I strongly believe we have a decent product. Check your dissonance. It’s the product. There are numerous things I could pick holes in here, most noteably that the product tries to do far too much and probably doesn’t do one thing brilliantly. Personally I’m not going to invest my valuable time in finding out if that’s true. The ask is too big. That said, nobody here is going to be able to give…
If I needed their product, I wouldn't be ready to freelance.
That may be one of the problems is the one price for all features. The virtual assistant may be where $20 of the $29 a month goes but and could be useful to potential customer. However if the potential customer already has a website and a form nda then they look at the service as a whole as useless. Would be worth investigating splitting service categories into 'those who are just starting' tier where you provide an all in one package and a 'make your life easier' tierwhere they can pick what services complement what they already do