Since your domain is very niche, you have to do marketing as well as targeted sales. Have you reached out to potential customers and asking them to use your service? Also please consider making this a B2B enterprise product. To do that the main thing you need to do is hide the price or put insanely high prices. like $999 per year per license and above. If you are hiding prices, put a button to contact the sales team,…
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Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#12Some other notes:
- Name makes sense after you think about it, but is hard to read at first glance.
- Your FAQ's answer on removing the validation code didn't inspire confidence. Give me an out of the box solution to obfuscating the tracking code.
Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#13Since your domain is very niche, you have to do marketing as well as targeted sales. Have you reached out to potential customers and asking them to use your service? Also please consider making this a B2B enterprise product. To do that the main thing you need to do is hide the price or put insanely high prices. like $999 per year per license and above. If you are hiding prices, put a button to contact the sales team,…
Overall the idea looks good, but the product looks too cheap, javascript validation? oh perhaps I could do it on my own. Just hide the details and put some jargons (AI/ML to detect behaviour etc :) and give an enterprise look and feel.
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#14Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#15If it has 0 users, who did you make it for?
Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#16The comment on "go for enterprise" is a great one IMO. A big company wouldn't mind spending $thousands plus $250/mo to "make sure they aren't stealing our IP" even if that's an extremely low-probability event.
Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#17What immediately came to mind for me was design templates. You are supposed to buy one for $20 and only use it for one site. I will say I have bought those templates for clients, but on small personal projects, I will just load their demo page and save it to my computer and voila. I have their design template. And I'm sure I've used one more than once after it enters my template library. Plus, those designers probably don't have a way to protect themselves. So in this case, I would go to themeforest or something similar. Look up 50 or so designers. Message them and see if you can get a phone call or if they would be willing to talk over email. Figure out what it's worth to them and go from there.
Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#18Don't forget that, for many successful SaaS:
-Landing page to trial conversion is in 5-10% range, and
-Trial to paying customer is 3-10%!
Also don't forget the statistical variance.
Source: https://medium.com/point-nine-news/monitoring-an-early-stage...
Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#19Also, your domain name is terrible.
Re: Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
#20Since your domain is very niche, you have to do marketing as well as targeted sales. Have you reached out to potential customers and asking them to use your service? Also please consider making this a B2B enterprise product. To do that the main thing you need to do is hide the price or put insanely high prices. like $999 per year per license and above. If you are hiding prices, put a button to contact the sales team,…
Overall the idea looks good, but the product looks too cheap, javascript validation? oh perhaps I could do it on my own. Just hide the details and put some jargons (AI/ML to detect behaviour etc :) and give an enterprise look and feel.