Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
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Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
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Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#2He refers to "November Startup Sprint" here on HN. I would love to see regular posts like that for launch & feedback.
The current convention seems to be "Show HN: my app" posts, but I'm worried about missing interesting posts and/or repetitive posts when an app is updated.
How about a monthly/weekly post for apps - similar to "Who's hiring..." - to show off apps/updates & get feedback?
(Also, the november discussions have a http://startupmonth.org/ site which seems to be down. Was there not enough traffic?)
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#3500 customers and a 4% conversion rate - so does that mean 20 paying customers total?
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#4500 customers and a 4% conversion rate - so does that mean 20 paying customers total?
Hi, yep, at that time, when we had 500 users, that meant 20 paying customers. :)
Right now, we stand at over 25,000 and a similar conversion :)
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#5He refers to "November Startup Sprint" here on HN. I would love to see regular posts like that for launch & feedback. The current convention seems to be "Show HN: my app" posts, but I'm worried about missing interesting posts and/or repetitive posts when an app is updated. How about a monthly/weekly post for apps - similar to "Who's hiring..." - to show off apps/updates & get feedback? (Also, the november discussions…
We built http://21times.org to help the November Startup Sprint folks with info and tracking progress, and had about 1500 people signup. (This was an early proof of concept for our startup http://DailyPath.com)
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#6He refers to "November Startup Sprint" here on HN. I would love to see regular posts like that for launch & feedback. The current convention seems to be "Show HN: my app" posts, but I'm worried about missing interesting posts and/or repetitive posts when an app is updated. How about a monthly/weekly post for apps - similar to "Who's hiring..." - to show off apps/updates & get feedback? (Also, the november discussions…
We built http://21times.org to help the November Startup Sprint folks with info and tracking progress, and had about 1500 people signup. (This was an early proof of concept for our startup http://DailyPath.com )
This is great for motivation during a heads-down sprint.
What I'm looking for is slightly different: a place to show off when done and get/give feedback.
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#7Appreciate you sharing your missteps and successes. It's also awesome to see the lean startup process in action rather than just hear people talk about it. Congrats!
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built http://21times.org to help the November Startup Sprint folks with info and tracking progress, and had about 1500 people signup. (This was an early proof of concept for our startup http://DailyPath.com )
This is great for motivation during a heads-down sprint. What I'm looking for is slightly different: a place to show off when done and get/give feedback.
That's coming as part of DailyPath.
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great for motivation during a heads-down sprint. What I'm looking for is slightly different: a place to show off when done and get/give feedback.
That's coming as part of DailyPath.
Registered! Not sure if it's what I was looking for, but it looks interesting for many things!
Re: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
#10Back when you did the initial validation with the first two MVP's, did you measure clickthrough rate? If so, how did it compare with the 4% conversion in the real product? (we're looking at ways to design MVP's to predict actual market performance.)