Ask HN: Review my startup: Hackerfly.com

Hi fellow Hackers,

Can I ask for feedback on a new product that I am working on: http://www.hackerfly.com

Hackerfly is a SaaS tool providing analysis and insights into the software programming industry.

The intention is to give marketers, analysts, developer evangelists, managers and decision makers a simple tool with statistics and quantitative information enabling them to understand software developers better and make more informed decisions regarding software and programming.

Currently, we're focusing on StackOveflow as a data source, but in the future we want to add many other relevant (developer-focused) data sources like GitHub, Twitter, etc.

- What do you think about the idea and the product?

- Is value proposition / offering clear?

- What do you think about the pricing model? Would you be willing to pay for this kind of service?

- Do you know of any startups doing the same or something similar?

- Do you like/dislike the look&feel of the marketing site?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

ps. You can already sign up and you will receive a personal invitation as soon as we launch private beta tests.

Hi there,

Overall site looks professional, I have few questions for you to answer 1. Nowadays platforms are very unrealistic about their offering to developers for example recent twitter announcement? since you took lot of information from stackoverflow how do you cope in future? 2. Do you think really some one buy this? since if its a big corporation they will read all magic quadrant from gartner if its a medium or small size they will try to use the tech stack based on what resources they have and they try to reuse it so often ? 3. Do you think you can sell this to outsourcing shop ? big no ? Please take my question as constructive feedback not other way around.

First of all congrats on launching.

I'll deliver some quick tips in term of UI/UX - hope they can help.

1. I'm not a huge fan of slides because you either have to get the user to click on the next to find out about the other slides or move them automatically after a certain interval which is what you're doing in your case. However it can be frustrating to move to the next slide while I'm reading (happened to me just now). My solution would be to either get rid of the slides and just concentrate your message in one slide or have a high interval between slides and have a bigger call to action to navigate to the next slide (you might even entice the user to click by giving him a short headline of what's next).

2. If you're doing slides - make sure to have your main CTA (call to action) button in all slides - if you convince me in slide #3 - you want me to click on a button and fill our my information - any hesitation on my end will result in a drop of conversion.

3. The message is not clear - I have no idea what you are doing (perhaps because I am not the target audience) but at least explain in simple word the different use cases. I am sure it would possibly help people quickly decide if this is something that could be useful to them.

4. The pricing - there are some elements which I really like - the fact that you can switch from a monthly to a yearly pricing plans is clever however If I would be you I'd show the old and new price in the yearly price (with the old price crossed - that way you re-enforce the savings indication).

Good luck!

The marketing site looks great and I like the sound of the idea, however I was surprised to see this as a paid-for service.

This is not because it is data not worth paying for but rather because I usually start thinking about new tech at the start of a new project, and I only start a new project once every year or two. An ongoing fee for this type of aggregator seems hard to justify.

A possible alternative would be to open up the data for free and supply affiliate links to related books, tools etc.

Maybe it's just not aimed at a user like me.

All the best :)

I'd have to agree here. It's a cool concept, but I just couldn't justify paying for it. It's possible that if there was a free limited version that I could play with, I'd get hooked and then be willing to pay the monthly rate. But then, I am a Senior Developer... maybe this is meant more for Project Managers. The project managers that I work with though, wouldn't be nearly technical enough to understand most of what comes through on Stack Overflow: "MVC what?" :)