not sure what it does..
Trext – Software that engages large groups in interactive texting
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#32I really like this idea, but the pricing (to me) is astronomical. I'm guessing I'm not in your target market, though. That is, someone who would use this for say, RSVPs to church events or something. Though, your demo would tell me otherwise. I'm a little confused about market fit, I guess.
How are you going to survive? I could build this in a weekend and be profitable charging a quarter of the price. If this catches on I imagine someone will do just that.
Doesn't that apply, or was applicable at some given point in time, to the vast majority of currently successful startups? http://www.quora.com/Startups/How-do-you-make-a-new-business...
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've been getting mainly B to E interest and our major competitors in those markets have starting plans of $1000/month. But we're interested in feedback. How would you revise the pricing?
My issue with pricing isn't the lower plan really, 60 doesn't seem so much, but the 10,000 text max plan seems to be too low for a lot of useful applications of this software. If I want to reach a 10,000 person incoming freshman class at a university then I would need to buy multiple plans just to serve them a multi-question conversation. The other thing is that you could provide higher priced (i.e. well over 1k plan…
That's a great idea. We're giving a first month free for the $60 plan but subsidizing it could get people hooked. Do you think we should offer a much larger plan (hypothetically would 100,000 texts for 4k/month be plausible?)
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#34I would propose a counterargument for those claiming the price is too high... for those still texting in 2013, less than 10 cents per text is a pretty good deal. Before I got my smartphone I was paying 25 cents per individual text, or I could have paid $15/month to have "unlimited" service but the real world limit was perhaps two or three per month for a cost of perhaps $5/text. These prices are why people don't use…
These prices are why people don't use texting/sms anymore.
Huh? I honestly don't know a single person (other than my parents) who don't use texting as their primary medium of communication between phones. It's easy, it's reliable, it removes the possibility of awkward or lengthy conversations.
What makes you think nobody texts anymore?
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#35As others have said you need to make it much more clear what the product does. I understand immediately once I scroll down but the tag line "Texting for education, health, advertising, and much more. Start the conversation." tells me nothing.
>> "Texting is already seen as more personal than email"
This is true but I don't think it's a plus for your product. Personally I despise getting texts from companies asking me questions and replying back to me, precisely because it's personal and unexpected. I don't want that kind of interaction from a business. It's an invasion of my personal life (ok a bit dramatic, I know).
Have you done much research on this? I'd be interested to know what you discovered.
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#36As others have said you need to make it much more clear what the product does. I understand immediately once I scroll down but the tag line "Texting for education, health, advertising, and much more. Start the conversation." tells me nothing. >> "Texting is already seen as more personal than email" This is true but I don't think it's a plus for your product. Personally I despise getting texts from companies asking me…
We don't have awesome data on this. But, we're working on it. Personally, I think it really depends if the texter wants the interaction. It can have great utility or be somewhat annoying.
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#37I didn't read the copy in the first section and instead scanned over to the video/demo. Maybe lead off with that or place it higher on the page.
... or integrate the step 1/2/3 into the animated demo to save on web page real estate.
...but also not something that's just a video capture of your desktop.
Also, this sounds cool for IT Operations like if you integrated with Nagios or PagerDuty.
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#38Having built an sms/web decision tree application for healthcare information (http://sxt.org.uk), my first question would be are there plans to build in any database searches?
I can see entring each option being tiresome for larger applications.
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#39Forgive me if I'm hyper-critical about the marketing. The first thing anyone sees about your company is: "Texting for education, health, advertising, and much more. Start the conversation." What does that even mean? I want to understand what your product does, and more importantly how it can help me. "education health, advertising and much more" are completely random use cases, and are confusing and distracting. This…
Agree, all I saw was texting for education (quick scan which most people do) and didn't really get it.
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#40Small typo in the phone picture. The text says "its fantastic" when it should say "it's fantastic". Not a big deal obviously, good luck with everything.