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Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by sunspeck » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

architgupta wrote: post #14

copper wrote: post #5

Just curious: how much would I have to pay to get cleartax pro? Also, you might want to fix the Mr Bose example: "ClearTax (an Income Tax website) rode to his resuce". I'm not entirely sure that I consider the story to be a positive endorsement, by the way :) It seems too contrived to be true. Edit: I found out there's a demo video from HN. You might want to make that link a tiny bit more prominent. I love the video,…

We are still arriving at a good pricing model. Right now we charge from $5.5 to $30 for professional CA support. (CA in India is similar to a CPA in the US)

The wording "Pricing starts from free." seems a little ominous with no actual pricing information up front. How much personal information will I have to fill in before you spring some charges on me?

I'd rather read something like "File for free" if that's what you do at your basic level.

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by architgupta » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:26 PM UTC

sunspeck wrote: post #21

architgupta wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are still arriving at a good pricing model. Right now we charge from $5.5 to $30 for professional CA support. (CA in India is similar to a CPA in the US)

The wording "Pricing starts from free." seems a little ominous with no actual pricing information up front. How much personal information will I have to fill in before you spring some charges on me? I'd rather read something like "File for free" if that's what you do at your basic level.

Noted. Basic efiling is free on the website.

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by crazydiamond » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

amaranand wrote: post #20

Honestly, no one pays taxes in India. Your product has no market. I can speak at length about this, but it's part of the reason real estate values in India increase by 30% year over year. Everyone hides their black money in real estate investments.

>"no one pays taxes in India"

I and millions more pay taxes. True about black money, though, but those are business people. Salaried people pay taxes at source, we do not get cash at all.

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by bretthopper » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:33 PM UTC

While it's great that you're using HTML5 Boilerplate, you should probably change the default favicon and the pink selection highlight colour :)

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by known » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

Many software professionals in India use this brilliant http://www.ynithya.com/taxcalc/

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by architgupta » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

bretthopper wrote: post #24

While it's great that you're using HTML5 Boilerplate, you should probably change the default favicon and the pink selection highlight colour :)

Thank you. Feedback noted.

I kinda like the pink :-)

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by endian » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:51 PM UTC

Some splash page design thoughts: https://img.skitch.com/20110724-qejdafa6fjpwg3gx86q1xmxdgh.p...

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by clobber » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:54 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #6

DrJokepu wrote: post #2

Don't try to become the "Something of Something" or "Something meets Something". Instead, try to become simply Something. That is all.

"X of Y" is a great pitch starter for a startup. You give the audience something to peg their thoughts on and go from there. Otherwise, potential for confusion before the "aha!" moment is too large. AirBnB was "We are the eBay of spaces" for a long time. Now that everyone knows AirBnb, everything else is "We are the AirBnB of %s"%('tutoring', 'car rental', 'casual sex', ...). Do you have a better sentence to get the…

I don't know, this might be good way to explain your idea to a non-investor but for VC's I've read the opposite: http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-dont-tell-an-in...

I think instead you can better form your pitch like this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/madlibs-pitch-adeo-ressi-fo...

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by architgupta » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:56 PM UTC

endian wrote: post #27

Some splash page design thoughts: https://img.skitch.com/20110724-qejdafa6fjpwg3gx86q1xmxdgh.p...

Wow, thanks for taking the time out!

Couple of Questions: - Why do you suggest taking the copyright out?

- I thought hyperlinks should follow typical convention, people are used to clicking them.

Re: Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

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Post by architgupta » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 5:58 PM UTC

architgupta wrote: post #29

endian wrote: post #27

Some splash page design thoughts: https://img.skitch.com/20110724-qejdafa6fjpwg3gx86q1xmxdgh.p...

Wow, thanks for taking the time out! Couple of Questions: - Why do you suggest taking the copyright out? - I thought hyperlinks should follow typical convention, people are used to clicking them.

I understand now about the hyperlinks. Just checked google.com and it has the same behavior. Blue links and underline on hover. :-)

Feedback noted.