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Re: Show HN: I built a thing

#11
This is great! I have the exact same problem with my apartment building needing not just a local number but one with the same area code as the building (so an area code in a neighboring city 10 mins away wouldn't work).

I ended up getting a google voice number to solve the issue which then simultaneously rings both me and my wife. However, I love your PIN idea and the "automatically let anyone in during a set time period" approach.

Re: Show HN: I built a thing

#12
You shouldn't be marketing this towards consumers. If you and your friend had this problem with the apartment gate then I'm sure more people at your apartment have to deal with it also. Why don't you talk to your apartment complex and see if they'd be interested to use it as a service for their tenants?

You should be marketing this towards apartment complex properties, not consumers living in apartment complexes.

Re: Show HN: I built a thing

#16
post #9

Very cool thing. I would include a summary on the use case on the questionsthree website or a short paragraph describing what exactly it is. The only reason I had some idea of what it was, is due to the blog post that directed me there. Just some information (also, pricing) to provide before asking for people to give away their emails. Cool thing, though!

Whoops. I'll definitely add the pricing to the home page. It's 10$/month or 100$/year.

For the longest time, the homepage was Rails' index.html. It was so hard for me to bang out those few paragraphs.

Re: Show HN: I built a thing

#17

You shouldn't be marketing this towards consumers. If you and your friend had this problem with the apartment gate then I'm sure more people at your apartment have to deal with it also. Why don't you talk to your apartment complex and see if they'd be interested to use it as a service for their tenants? You should be marketing this towards apartment complex properties, not consumers living in apartment complexes.

I thought about that as a next step, but I really don't know where to start. Talk to the manager of my leasing office? Try to find an in to the company who owns this property (and probably several others)?

Re: Show HN: I built a thing

#19
post #9

Very cool thing. I would include a summary on the use case on the questionsthree website or a short paragraph describing what exactly it is. The only reason I had some idea of what it was, is due to the blog post that directed me there. Just some information (also, pricing) to provide before asking for people to give away their emails. Cool thing, though!

Whoops. I'll definitely add the pricing to the home page. It's 10$/month or 100$/year. For the longest time, the homepage was Rails' index.html. It was so hard for me to bang out those few paragraphs.

If the best alternative to using your app is a free Google Voice number in your area code (and not $20/month to Time Warner), I don't think $10/month is something I would pay. I'd either find a way to make the pricing work, or (as suggested above) find a way to sell to apartment complexes at large.

Re: Show HN: I built a thing

#20
That's strange, of all the places in the world I wouldn't suspect that US have a higher price for calling non-local cells/phones (and even has such thing as a long-distance call). Here were I live the long/short distance have the same price for about 15 years now). I know that Poland is small in comparison to the US, but I don't see a point in charging more for longer distance (one could just average the price).
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