Did your team end up ditching the mobile marketing effort? That's what I need for my next project.
From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
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Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#52This is encouraging. But it's not an MVP approach as much as a validation approach. They validated the idea/product with Mailchimp. The product didn't come until they started building something to "productize" what had already been validated manually.
This is what I want to do with a new type of email-based shopping experience. We'll see.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#53A classic pivot: "This gold mining thing isn't working out, perhaps we should just sell goods to the other miners".
Isn't this the new go-to startup strategy? Startups for startups?
Not a bad strategy - especially when you can very closely identify with the problems your new customers are experiencing.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#54Great post. I especially loved the screen shots of the signup and payment forms that very clearly had Wufoo branding all over them. It really goes to show that if you have a good idea you don't need to have all your I's dotted and T's crossed in your MVP; If people like the idea they'll look past those little lumps.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#55Isn't anybody going to talk about the irony of a developer service that found success without writing any code? I think the take away is git or ftp, ruby or php, sql or a text file, json or xml. Customers don't care, not even developers. I find that interesting.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#56Great post, thank you. I'm wondering, when you "manually contacted the best developers", was this a telephone call or an email? I'm having a hard time finding the "fine line" of annoying telemarketing call or not. Although the service I provide would genuinely be useful to the one I contact (as useful as your service), it's hard not to sound like a telemarketer nonetheless.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It instantly reminded me of simple as well. Both top fixed headers with orange buttons and large BG image with a white background. There are more for sure. The basic app/tool website layout.
Both sites use twitter bootstrap with a few font changes, among other things.
Didn't mean to come off so accusatory. I had simple open in another tab at the time and thought it was weird that the sign in link had changed text before I realized what was going on :)
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#58This is a great story that focuses on iteration.
There are several players in this field. Where are you sourcing all the project/clients from? I understand the connection to developers. What about the clients?