Impressive list of some of the best tools / SaaS out there. If they add Heroku and New Relic next year that's basically all I need :)
Startup Pack for Marketers
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#22I wish some of these bundle sites would reach out to me. I'd gladly offer free months or discounts for Improvely to startups! By the time I hear about the bundle, it's too late to be included in the offer.
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#23Forcing to tweet AND not making clear it's a sweepstake?
That some two dark patterns.
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#24I wish some of these bundle sites would reach out to me. I'd gladly offer free months or discounts for Improvely to startups! By the time I hear about the bundle, it's too late to be included in the offer.
There's a link on the bottom to submit your own startup. Improvely looks awesome btw.
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#25I wish some of these bundle sites would reach out to me. I'd gladly offer free months or discounts for Improvely to startups! By the time I hear about the bundle, it's too late to be included in the offer.
yes and they could maybe make a "second Tier" pack for 500 more users
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#26This pack contains a lot of valuable tools, well done to who ever put it together.
But please, indicate clearly that it is a lottery where 500 people will win.
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#27I understand the need to spread the word, etc... and you are giving out free stuff.. but forcing people to follow and retweet your message, without even giving the option to edit the text.. I don't like it.
The act of forcing someone to retweet a message could be reasonably construed to violate the consideration clause in Federal and State sweepstakes laws. http://contests.about.com/od/c/g/consideration.htm Any sweepstakes that requires consideration from an entrant is illegal.
what happens when non marketers market--see we know this kind of stuff. :) Also, just because a company is in the "pack" doesn't mean it's right for your startup. Many of these products are way too expensive to keep for more than 90 days; and the switching costs of taking them out are inappropriate for the value given.
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#28Has anyone on HN been successful in a previous startuppack round?
Had no idea what you meant until I saw: We check applications then draw lots for 500 winners To put it mildly, it's very misleading to submit a story that states, "Startup Pack gives away $5,000 worth of tools" when the reality is "Startup Pack holds sweepstakes for $5,000 worth of tools".
+1. I was about to recommend it to a startup I'm friendly with until I saw that. No one likes to be deceived.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious what happens if you use the Inspector to modify the text. It's a pack for hackers, after all. It's not a bug, it's a secret test of character!
Changing the content of the textarea with the inspector doesn't affect the final tweet text sadly. Just tested.
I'm not surprised, although I wonder if that's a violation of Twitter's API guidelines.
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#30Not really interested in signing in with Twitter.
Also not happy that they Tweet from your account without making it explicitly obvious that they're going to do it.
I always assume that if something wants me to sign-in via something like facebook then it is going to at least try to use me to push the word to my contacts.
The choices at that point are:
1. Back away and live without what-ever they are offering.
2. Create a temporary account and sign in via that.
If a product impresses me I'll let my friends know myself - the product is not in charge of what I do/don't say about it.