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Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

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Post by hxmc »

You could have validated this idea (for next to nothing, I might add) before quitting your job and investing all of your savings.

There's a lot of good reading out there around how to do what you've tried to do here in a safe and sensible way that doesn't waste time and your own hard earned money, but you seem to have ignored all of that. I suggest you purchase a copy of http://theleanstartup.com/

I genuinely wish you all the best of luck, but the way you've gone about this seems to me to be very, very foolish. Reckless even, given you have a family.

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#53

Post by pdrummond »

ashleyp wrote: post #42
pdrummond wrote: post #35

Holy crap! I wasn't going to come back here until tomorrow at the earliest, then my own post popped up in my Feedly! Surreal. Thanks for all the feedback!!! I'm still reading, but here are some quick responses from what I have seen so far. 1. I will update the openloopz.com asap - oversight on my part. Not sure how I missed that tbh. 2. The word "openloopz" was coined about 7 years ago when I first started working on…

I really like the concept and a bunch of the features but echo other thoughts. Also, plzplzplzzplz don't keep something a bunch of people have said they dislike because it came about years ago and you're attached to it.

Thanks. I was just explaining how the name came to be, but if it's a problem (and it looks as though it is) I will change it.

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#54

Post by railsmax »

lsjroberts wrote: post #4
bshimmin wrote: post #3

If I'm honest, I read probably 70% of the text on that page and I'm still really not sure what it is or what it does. Words are good, but maybe some screenshots or something would help.

The medium article provides a nice bunch of screenshots and explanation - https://medium.com/@pdrummond/openloopz-beta-is-live-fbe4c71...

Probably video tutorial, which explains how all things works may help even better than screenshots

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#55

Post by onion2k »

CmonDev wrote: post #41

I wish people did not spend their own money on start-ups, it's so sad :(. Learn from Silicon Valley.

There's nothing wrong with bootstrapping. Plenty of small/medium businesses don't go for VC (unless you count straight up debt like a bank loan, which I don't).

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#56

Post by codecondo »

ashleyp wrote: post #42
pdrummond wrote: post #35

Holy crap! I wasn't going to come back here until tomorrow at the earliest, then my own post popped up in my Feedly! Surreal. Thanks for all the feedback!!! I'm still reading, but here are some quick responses from what I have seen so far. 1. I will update the openloopz.com asap - oversight on my part. Not sure how I missed that tbh. 2. The word "openloopz" was coined about 7 years ago when I first started working on…

I really like the concept and a bunch of the features but echo other thoughts. Also, plzplzplzzplz don't keep something a bunch of people have said they dislike because it came about years ago and you're attached to it.

I agree. "OpenLoop" and "OpenLoopz" is enough to justify it.

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#58

Post by bengali3 »

$5 a month for premium makes me think theres not much value behind it, multiply by at least 10.

remember, "expensive = good" see cialdini - http://goo.gl/9vvE8S

add some testimonials to add social proof

read up on lead funnels. i'd wager you'd be better to offer the $5 premium accounts via email to your free members (after they've used the product) than showing the low price on your homepage.

if a tool is awesome, it's invaluable. once its invaluable, it can afford to become less awesome (see salesforce)

add an email capture tool like drip to get contact with folks who want to follow but arent yet ready to commit.

Best of luck!!

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#59

Post by philbarr »

Want to do this sort of thing myself one day. So many congratualations on getting it out there!

Which is why I'm so sorry when I say: I read a bunch of the text on there and I don't know what it does. I'm no marketer either, but I highly recommend Start Small, Stay Small for the basics on market research and marketing. You could read it in an afternoon.

You need (at a minimum):

- screenshots

- testimonials (I think you just make them up)

- a BUY NOW button. It's after that you tell them it's a Beta and get them to put their email address in.

Re: Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

#60

Post by mydpy »

leftnode wrote: post #28

I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…

I agree with your assessment. I don't think this product has the type of competitive advantage needed in this highly saturated communications market.

I think you can use this to lead to better things. Iterate on the product, get some feedback, and attack it again. In the meantime, blog throughout the process. Get your voice out. If you generate interest about your product before you release it, you can generate more momentum when you launch.

Good luck!

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