I don't know if it's just me, but I think you might need to rethink your market/angle. I've worked with a few startups and the last thing on our mind was "centralized employee authentication" and "infrastructure dashboards".
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Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
no worries. thanks for the the feedback. i'm not able to reproduce, though. Chrome and Firebox both shows the SSL as valid and styles seem to be loading as expected. which versions do you have. -travis
I have the latest Chrome on Mac and am seeing the SSL Error. Cert information is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/122722/backyard_io_certificate.png
Latest Chrome on Mac for me as well.
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#13Who would you say are your major competitors?
i think Github and similar hosted SCM providers are potential competitors. Atlassian’s line of enterprise products are also similar to our offerings. Github is definitely the company we fear (and have a crazy amount of respect and admiration for). At their core though I think Github and Backyard have different focus’. Github is focused on (and in my opinion succeeding at) being the best-in-breed Source Control platfo…
I would try to find a way to complement GitHub, not compete with it.
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#14Signed up, looks interesting enough.
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
no worries. thanks for the the feedback. i'm not able to reproduce, though. Chrome and Firebox both shows the SSL as valid and styles seem to be loading as expected. which versions do you have. -travis
I have the latest Chrome on Mac and am seeing the SSL Error. Cert information is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/122722/backyard_io_certificate.png
looks like our AWS load balancer has a corrupted chain cert. we're updating the balancer now and should have the problem fixed in a few. thanks for the screenshot! -travis
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#16FYI Chrome is flagging your site because the domain name on your SSL certificate doesn't match. Also, the site styling is completely off in Firefox. I don't mean to be completely negative, but fixing those things will probably help in getting people to sign up!
no worries. thanks for the the feedback. i'm not able to reproduce, though. Chrome and Firebox both shows the SSL as valid and styles seem to be loading as expected. which versions do you have. -travis
Safari mobile (iPad) doesn't work (SSL error). Did you try running one of the SSL verifiers? (don't know the sites on the top of my head, google it).
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#17I don't know if it's just me, but I think you might need to rethink your market/angle. I've worked with a few startups and the last thing on our mind was "centralized employee authentication" and "infrastructure dashboards".
i'd cut it down to a few core services and make those awesome. what do your users need most?
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
i think Github and similar hosted SCM providers are potential competitors. Atlassian’s line of enterprise products are also similar to our offerings. Github is definitely the company we fear (and have a crazy amount of respect and admiration for). At their core though I think Github and Backyard have different focus’. Github is focused on (and in my opinion succeeding at) being the best-in-breed Source Control platfo…
I would try to find a way to complement GitHub, not compete with it.
we currently offer only a hosted git & svn option for scm. we definitely plan to offer integrations with GitHub in the future, because we think their service is awesome and we understand that a lot of businesses have already chosen them as their scm provider.
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#19Signed up, no problems.
Re: Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
#20I don't know if it's just me, but I think you might need to rethink your market/angle. I've worked with a few startups and the last thing on our mind was "centralized employee authentication" and "infrastructure dashboards".
i'd cut it down to a few core services and make those awesome. what do your users need most?
definitely good advice. part of the reason we decided to post today was to try to get a larger user base and figure out what services they're most interested in. we plan on keeping our initial beta groups small, so we can work closely with our users to figure out what services they love, what they don't really need and what we can add that would improve their experience.