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Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by pagekalisedown »

eli wrote: post #9

Here's my free idea: An email service provider (ESP) that caters specifically to B2B and B2C newsletters (I'm thinking 100k to 10mil+ messages a month). It's crazy that this doesn't exist. MailChimp and similar have pricing that does not scale up. Meanwhile MailGun and similar do not have the analytics or list management that publishers need. They are geared towards transactional messages, not newsletters. Lyris/Emai…

For that size of marketing, I know a company that's using

http://clickmailmarketing.com/

and they seem to be happy with them.

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by sedachv »

The #2 problem is served by a large, established industry called relocation services (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_service). Combining this with a job board doesn't really make sense - the reason people are moving to the US for jobs and not vice-versa is because there are a lot of jobs in the US and not in the places where people are moving from.

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by jeffool »

Livestream for writers.

A writing block in the top right rectangle on the page.

A chat block on the bottom right.

A menu on the top left.

An ad on the bottom left.

Make the panes able to be resized, or completely hid, by clicking and dragging on the intersection. Any time the menu or chat is visible, the ad must be as well.

Give the writer the power to control thing, like: can users copy and paste? Can users scroll around freely, or are they stuck with author view? Can the file be read when not streaming?

Eventually take it further, become a storefront. Let people sell their written wares.

Ideally? I'd like to work on it.

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by sgdesign »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #20
sgdesign wrote: post #17

My free idea: when using different analytics services, I'm sick of having to add the tracking code and then reconfigure the same users and events for every new service. So my idea is a third-party site that only collects your data once, and then serves it to other products. Kinda like Twilio for analytics, if you will. As an added benefit, new analytics startups wouldn't have to build the "collect data in real time"…

This is probably one of the most powerful ideas I have read in a long time. It could be applied to your website data, as well as email data, lifestyle data, financial, etc...

Glad you like the idea! It does seem a bit like one of those all-encompassing "boil the ocean" ideas, but PG's last post made me think maybe those ideas are worth considering after all!

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by jamiek88 »

saiko-chriskun wrote: post #19

I might be willing to do the coding for #2 if someone else has experience in the area and can help with the design/direction of the app :)

I like idea 2 and have years of experience both as being an expat and an employer who immigrates (Oil & Gas professionals). The revenue is drive from the recruiters side. Simple interface. 'I want to work in....' 'I am good at....' 'My family situation is...' etc. Pre sorted meta data and resume to recruiters who can immigrate the best talent in each sector, pre selected to those who actually want to go to that country/region. Rather than now when you start with a list of people who may not want to move to move to USA when they would like to go to Aus or Singapore etc. I'd love to do something like this. I can't code worth a damn but I am a relative expert in this area.

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by eli »

pagekalisedown wrote: post #21
eli wrote: post #9

Here's my free idea: An email service provider (ESP) that caters specifically to B2B and B2C newsletters (I'm thinking 100k to 10mil+ messages a month). It's crazy that this doesn't exist. MailChimp and similar have pricing that does not scale up. Meanwhile MailGun and similar do not have the analytics or list management that publishers need. They are geared towards transactional messages, not newsletters. Lyris/Emai…

For that size of marketing, I know a company that's using http://clickmailmarketing.com/ and they seem to be happy with them.

They just resell other services like Lyris, no?

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by franze »

true_religion wrote: post #16
franze wrote: post #11

please steal this ideas, too: google analytics with out the new google analytics (the old google analytics interface using the google analytics API) .. as soon as google sunsets the old version (what they wanted to do last jan) there will be a lot frustration (as the new GA - currently - sucks, hard) huge market (there will be millions and millions of frustrated users) - can easily be a premium market (5$ to 25% per…

What's wrong with the new analytics program?

you can't answer the question "how is our (organic, brand, paid, cpc, ...) traffic doing (compared to yesterday, last week, last month, last year, ...)?" anymore without consulting the Calculator.app.

it makes answering complicated questions easy, and answering simple questions complicated.

it was probably designed by a committee (consisting of mostly adwords managers) - a committee that does not use the product itself.

and this is without mentioning the bugs (and more bugs and bugs with bugs and bugs with features and features with bugs ...) and the missing scheduled (email, pdf) reports.

it really is that bad. and i'm a professional. now imagine all the small local companies dealing with this kind of "update".

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by franze »

sgdesign wrote: post #17

My free idea: when using different analytics services, I'm sick of having to add the tracking code and then reconfigure the same users and events for every new service. So my idea is a third-party site that only collects your data once, and then serves it to other products. Kinda like Twilio for analytics, if you will. As an added benefit, new analytics startups wouldn't have to build the "collect data in real time"…

chicken - egg problem. for publishers (websites) it's only worth if lot of analytics companies use it, for analytics companies it's only worth it if lot of publishers use it.

but if this gets solved, it will be awesome.

Re: Tell HN: Steal my ideas

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Post by philip1209 »

eli wrote: post #9

Here's my free idea: An email service provider (ESP) that caters specifically to B2B and B2C newsletters (I'm thinking 100k to 10mil+ messages a month). It's crazy that this doesn't exist. MailChimp and similar have pricing that does not scale up. Meanwhile MailGun and similar do not have the analytics or list management that publishers need. They are geared towards transactional messages, not newsletters. Lyris/Emai…

Infusionsoft??
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