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Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by rschmitty »

TallboyOne wrote: post #108

Right off the bat. I'm kind of buzzed so take my advice as twice as important related to usability No pictures = not interested (for 'scripts' this is okay.. but if its something that you expect users to sign up to it must have imagery). If its a script that you put into your own app, then make a video to show how it works. You need a much better summary at the top of exactly what it does and why i should sign up. Yo…

Also naming something like one of your plans after 'Katrina' brings up negative connotations

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by darkmagnus »

Snoptic wrote: post #105
dendory wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering why no one was tackling the issue of posting to multiple social networks, and instead all we saw were services that clone posts from one network to the next, services that usually get shut down from the networks. So I made my own a while back that can post to Twitter, Facebook, G+, etc in customized ways depending if I have a URL or not, automatically shortening it, etc. Otherwise I would give yours a…

Do you have to constantly change your web page scraper to maintain G+ support, since it has no API?

https://developers.google.com/+/api/

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by jf22 »

mixmax wrote: post #62

Oh, I can outdo you! Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO. But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that…

In running we say it doesn't matter how fast you went or how far you ran.

You still lapped everybody on the couch.

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by bert2002 »

Joyfield wrote: post #15

Pfff. 13 users are much more than my pet project ( http://www.DNSDigger.com ) has. It is a couple of years old but i recently started with paid accounts and API-access.

WOW! Thats pretty sweet. Would be nice to see some v6 (psst. may be one more feature for the paid account ;)

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

mixmax wrote: post #62

Oh, I can outdo you! Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO. But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that…

Pffffft. Oh Please... You got funding. That means you at least convinced someone to trust you with money. I sold 250 calendars (147 on Fab.com, 103 on http://DayOnePP.com) and didn't make a single penny of profit. In fact I LOST $300+ dollars somehow. That's how bad I am at sales (and account management apparently). Ya'll got further than I did. I think I belong in Product Design & Development and away from money.

Chaddeshon your landing page doesn't have a call to action above the fold. You're missing out on a lot of signups like that. (I can design but I couldn't sell ice water to people in hell)

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by stackthatcode »

Impressive. Congrats on shipping and launching.

Constructive criticism: it looks like something I could actually use i.e. automation, server-side rendering, useful for SEO. But, I left the landing page and couldn't tell you exactly what the product will do for me. I have a vague idea that it might be useful for SEO or automation. I'm too busy to read the long copy. I'm not too busy to write this post, though :-)

I'd like to see different headlines (or landing pages) that speak to my pain points. "Having trouble getting your Knockout.JS website ranked?" "Frustrated by trying to automate testing of your JavaScript-heavy site?" etc.

Again, kudos. Something tells me this service is going to do fine... patience, right? ;-)

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Post by zenocon »

kgen wrote: post #97
zenocon wrote: post #52

Disclaimer: I'm a hardcore phantomjs user. Add a service that scrapes results and I think you'll be overwhelmed with interest. Scraping is a pain. It takes a special niche talent -- but a ton of people want it. Let people submit what information they want off a page -- you write the script that does it for them. Pay as you go, etc. If it saves people time, they will pay for it. I do full-time consulting -- building o…

Just curious, but isn't this what ScraperWiki does?

Never head of ScraperWiki. Took a quick look, and it looks they do provide this kind of service. Regardless, that hardly means the market is saturated. Businesses need this kind of thing A LOT. If you do it right, it could prove quite fruitful. I'd remove all the stuff about phantomjs / headless browser and all tech jargon from the home page, and just focus on how you can provide fast value through this path.
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