Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#1

Post by james-fend » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

What progress have you made on your startup for the month of November?? (full-time or on the side)

Launch something? Almost launching? Got featured on a great blog?

Guess I'll start off: Still making progress on http://www.Freelanceful.com and waiting for the developer to finish. [there's been quite some trouble/drama with the developer]

In the meantime; I've also decided to pursue spending 6-8 hours a day learning Ruby on Rails [I'm a freelance UI designer currently] and also started up a new blog on Web Startups: http://www.webstartup.me

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#2

Post by mootothemax » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

Launched my Twitter competitions tool:

http://interactwive.com

Got some interest, but still working hard on the marketing side of things. Few people have registered to use it, but am still chasing the elusive first sale! ;)

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#3

Post by james-fend » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 2:19 PM UTC

mootothemax wrote: post #2

Launched my Twitter competitions tool: http://interactwive.com Got some interest, but still working hard on the marketing side of things. Few people have registered to use it, but am still chasing the elusive first sale! ;)

just curious; how'd you come up with the name?

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#4

Post by mootothemax » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 2:25 PM UTC

james-fend wrote: post #3

mootothemax wrote: post #2

Launched my Twitter competitions tool: http://interactwive.com Got some interest, but still working hard on the marketing side of things. Few people have registered to use it, but am still chasing the elusive first sale! ;)

just curious; how'd you come up with the name?

Stupidity, frankly. I was looking for something that implied interactivity and Twitter in its name... and came up with that monstrosity of a name ;)

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#5

Post by davidhansen » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 2:39 PM UTC

In November we:

1. Made a critical hire

2. Completed "holiday rush" preparations

3. Expanded the warehouse and office

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#6

Post by james-fend » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 3:07 PM UTC

davidhansen wrote: post #5

In November we: 1. Made a critical hire 2. Completed "holiday rush" preparations 3. Expanded the warehouse and office

Ties.com?! That's one hell of a domain name.. Cyber Monday.. woot woot

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#7

Post by blueprint » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 3:11 PM UTC

1. Spent a week or two confirming that the concept was possible

2. Left my day job to work full-time on the new project

3. Gathered some basic feedback

4. Got hosting, domain, and email sorted

5. Put up a notify signup page at http://blueprint.io

6. Made 50% progress on my MVP web app

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#8

Post by JohnOBrien10 » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 3:35 PM UTC

Implemented a cool new Google docs integration feature on job-buddy.com, thought it was going to really shake things up... Except no-one understands why it's there, how to use it. Back to the drawing board.

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#9

Post by MarcinMieszek » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 3:51 PM UTC

1. Got lesson from YCombinator rejection. 2. Launched landing page http://ninjaci.com and got initial feedback 3. Took part in Warsaw Startup Weekend in Poland

Now I am working on MVP - full continuous integration stack in the cloud that covers Django, MongoDB and Git - should be ready withing 2 weeks

Re: Ask HN: Your Startup Progress (November 2011)

#10

Post by rpicard » Wed, Nov 23, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

mootothemax wrote: post #2

Launched my Twitter competitions tool: http://interactwive.com Got some interest, but still working hard on the marketing side of things. Few people have registered to use it, but am still chasing the elusive first sale! ;)

Your navigation is a little messed up. The "Interactwive" link looks like it just goes to "#" which means I can't get back to the home page. Also, once I go to the demo page the "Register" and "Contact" link disappear. It looks pretty cool other than that though.