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Re: Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you

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Post by sharath39 »

helimn wrote: post #50
sharath39 wrote: post #2

Hey there HN community I'm Sharath co-founder at Shoutout. This is my first posting a product on HN so I'm pretty stoked at the same time heavily nervous about it! Five months ago, I had this idea of gathering all the shoutouts I get on Twitter under one place, and I thought it would be cool to launch an LP and validate it with everyone. As a no-code maker, I shipped the LP in less than 24hrs, got 120+ signups, and s…

Love the idea, and the details on how you validated it! Now just to get some shoutouts on Twitter... :D One question I have is how you drove traffic to your LP initially?

I build in public. Almost all the traffic is organic and since we do share lessons, highs, lows transparently, people love us.

Re: Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you

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Post by sharath39 »

chrisweekly wrote: post #54

Cool idea, great post. Minor constructive criticism of your LP: most of the screen is taken up by a meaningless pseudo-lego figure with (at a glance) an ambiguous response to an unknown problem or solution. If I hadn't come to it by way of HN I'd have bounced on 1st impression.

Thanks for the feedback Chris! Will make it better.

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Post by galuggus »

mike_d wrote: post #55
sharath39 wrote: post #2

Hey there HN community I'm Sharath co-founder at Shoutout. This is my first posting a product on HN so I'm pretty stoked at the same time heavily nervous about it! Five months ago, I had this idea of gathering all the shoutouts I get on Twitter under one place, and I thought it would be cool to launch an LP and validate it with everyone. As a no-code maker, I shipped the LP in less than 24hrs, got 120+ signups, and s…

It seems like your product is focused around promoting trustworthiness and not just positive reviews. Why? Who is the target customer here? If you are buying drugs and the dealer says "hey, by the way, I just want you to know I'm totally not a cop"... that is a huge red flag. I'm equally wary of random websites that feel like they need to prove trust to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof

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Post by tommoor »

I built exactly this for Buffer maybe 8 years ago now, and amazingly a version of it still stands today: https://buffer.com/love

Definitely a nice page to have on your site, I guess the fact that it's lasted this long (well after I left the company) means it must still be showing value. Quite simple on the backend, it just pulls in tweets that the official Buffer account as fav'd on an hourly basis.

Re: Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you

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Post by timdaub »

I find the art style of your website quite curious.

Regarding the pricing and product: I do understand that some agencies may be willing to pay a few bucks to use your product. But over the long term, I'd expect that someone creates an open source gatsby plugin that outperforms your product.

Or Am I missing something?

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Post by Speakethics »

So privacy policy and terms of service in a notion document, are you serious? If I become a user, I have no idea if you are going to change the terms after I have joined it. These makers they build websites, want user data by hiding transparency, user ethics. Its a big joke.

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Post by Jamiehan »

sharath39 wrote: post #44
okitsjoe wrote: post #39

Congrats on the launch, the product looks great! How did you manage to show the local currencies in the pricing section? Are you using any library or third party service for that?

We use Paddle and it takes care of the currency when you enable the feature. Actually my technical co-founder is better to answer this question.

Do you convert the price for each location / currency to a round number, or do you keep it as a straight conversion?

E.g. Picking a $15 USD plan in the UK would bill me for £10.80, and fluctuate each month.

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