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Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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post #79

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Joel, what are you using for your cohort analysis? An internally-built tool? A third-party service?

Would be an interesting third party tool. Does anyone do this already? Something as simple as receiving a list of usernames over time.

Cohort.ly does a great job. They are in private beta so you can request access. It has been really beneficial to us.

http://cohort.ly/

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Re Pricing - I'd be interested in being able to buy a number of "credits" for this service instead of paying a recurring monthly fee. Something like $20 for 500 requests that I can then use anytime over the next 12 months. Your service looks interesting but also something I'm likely to use a lot for a few days then possibly not at all for a while so I'd be reluctant to pay a monthly fee for it. A "credit pack" or pay…

agreed

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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post #86

Heya, Do you plan to license this for self-hosting? If you do, I think you might be surprised at the enterprise buyin on this sort of thing. I can immediately think of $confidential projects that could use this.

If someone were interesting in self-hosting, I would talk to them.

OK. Can you send me an email (In HN profile)?

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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post #48

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I recently hacked together a product that aligns with buffer's philosophy, but is inherently different. I have about 70 users, but zero paid users and not much activity. I've been ignoring it from a development standpoint in favor of other projects. Meanwhile I still use the site daily. I hope I can put some more time into it, but for now I'm just letting it scratch a personal itch. If anyone is interested: https://t…

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…

I'd love to see it – shoot me an email.

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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post #20

I know how hard this can be. I've been doing startup stuff for 7 years. And it's still awfully painful. I'd encourage teaching to find an audience. I've been blogging and blogging and blogging. I ended up giving that up at one point. I thought I had more important things to do. I thought it wasn't growing enough. But that was foolish. The biggest thing that's changed a lot of things for me in the last year is simply…

Do you think it's better to blog on your own personal blog, or to blog on the product's blog page?

I figured you'd want SEO on the product's blog page, but on the other hand, if it tanks, or you end up doing something else, you'd want the SEO on your own blog, right?

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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post #23

In the whole first month of Buffer, we had less than 100 signups. For comparison, we now have 560,000 users (2.5 years later). We now sign up 100 people within a couple hours. It amazes me to think about it. I had a previous startup that also started slow, but never really changed. The key difference between the two, was retention. So I would highly recommend anyone who's getting started to closely watch retention. D…

Retention vs sign ups. Interesting.

Are we talking LinkedIn style link-bait and endless 'notification' emails?

Or Dropbox/Mailbox style gamification to get more free by being 'part of the club'?

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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I don't mean to sound like a scrooge but... it's really expensive! I'm super interested in this service, but before paying 29/month (that's more than what i pay for a VOS server) i want to be sure that the service 1) Is working properly according to my needs 2) It's efficient 3) will be helpful. A.K.A. Add a free plan to try it!

I'm not sure if you singed up or not. But right now all plans are free during the beta. When the beta period ends, I'll make sure there is still a free way to try the service.

Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

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Maybe because the price is utterly absurd for something that costs nothing to provide and should be free?

Or because you can just run the browser yourself, press print screen or View SOurce and have the same result, non programmatically?

Or because you can use Selenium WebDriver and achieve the same result programmatically, and also support IE and Firefox?

You know, not all ideas are actually useful, especially as paid services, and this is one that isn't.

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