I can only think of the value of your list of active customers. That's a targeted bunch ... and you already what they have and, perhaps more importantly, what they don't have. Press on!
Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
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Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#92Thanks for sharing. I think you have a lot of bases covered very well. Landing Page | How It Works | Pricing is a great start. Free trial offer, and choose your own price to boot, is an interesting approach.
I understand your product. I'm not sure I'm up for the requisite effort to keep you informed of my kids toys, nor am I personally all that concerned with recalls, so for me it wasn't worth signing up. Car seat, stroller, bigger items, those I would want to know about recalls, but those aren't "toys". If you're going to do kid-safety, I think you have to cast a wider net.
I went to 'How it Works' and clicked continue. Entered a fake name and clicked continue. Left email blank and clicked continue... I just wanted to see the actual product, you know?
So then I see 'Example's Toys... All toys safe' so I click 'What toys am I tracking' and the screen flickers and now says 'Attention required... some safety concerns.' So something is wrong there, I wasn't able to actually demo your product.
Maybe instead of 'Sign Up' and making me jump through hoops, flip the model around. Start as an anonymous user, fill in some toys, see if there are issues, then to get the alerts and save your toy list, then you can click to sign-up. If someone puts real toys into the list, they are almost certain to want to save it instead of throw the list away.
Also, you might not even need to make the user create an account with a password. The alternative, more old-school Craigslist model, is just collect the email. If you ever send an alert, include a link which lets the user login. In the welcome email, include a link to edit your toy list. Once in a while, ping to ask for new toys to be added, and include an auto-login link. Just something to consider.
Also, this is probably asking too much, but can you please share the scatter plot of what people are choosing to pay for pricing? That would be incredibly interesting.
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#93I can only think of the value of your list of active customers. That's a targeted bunch ... and you already what they have and, perhaps more importantly, what they don't have. Press on!
That feels like a betrayal of trust. If you sign up for a service that is intended to protect your children, that is not a business relationship, it is personal. It needs to be treated as a personal relationship. Breaking that trust would be not only bad business, but just all around badness.
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#94I can only think of the value of your list of active customers. That's a targeted bunch ... and you already what they have and, perhaps more importantly, what they don't have. Press on!
That feels like a betrayal of trust. If you sign up for a service that is intended to protect your children, that is not a business relationship, it is personal. It needs to be treated as a personal relationship. Breaking that trust would be not only bad business, but just all around badness.
Really? I think it would all be down to the execution.
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#95Seems like you already posted this 6 months ago [1] without getting any upvotes or comments. Wondering if it's just the new title or a new landing page. Any idea?
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you pay for the other illustrations on your home page? They look a bit disparate, and some turn up elsewhere in an image search: https://dribbble.com/shots/1553377-Changing-Homes?list=users... http://dabbled.org/this-robot-has-expired/ http://www.creativebloq.com/illustration/illustrations-strip... If not perhaps consider paying one of the illustrators (Daniel González stuff looks excellent) to make you a set of…
I suspect he's just grabbed this template: https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/triangle-multi-purpose-templ... but yes, you make an excellent point. Equally I agree with his approach of using a $9 template before validating w customers and working out the business model...not sure what the theme site says about the images licence wise but it's not necessarily a bad abstraction to assume that images included with a templa…
I've lost count of companies & individuals ripping off our illustrations and reselling them bundled into their templates.
Especially on a $9 template, the odds of them being properly licensed at that price point, I'd be surprised.
In this case, the author mentions it's an editorial piece for a magazine. ( https://dribbble.com/shots/1553377-Changing-Homes )
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#97I think there is a good idea in this, but as presented I wouldn't use it.
I am a parent. There are lots of toys around the house. Some are mainstream so I will probably find them on your site, but some are boutique. Some I don't have the box for so I can't list them if I don't remember the name.
So it is quite a hassle to list them all, and I can't be bothered.
Because most danger to children isn't toys IMHO but things like drowning, choking on small objects (not necessarily from a toy, could be a coin), falling, curtain cords and roads. I would rather concentrate on minimizing those risks.
A way you could present this so at least I would use it is just an email address. No need to list your toys, and get weekly or monthly product recall updates for mainstream toys.
It could have the recalls for that month, plus anything super-dangerous in the last 6 months as a reminder. Then there is no need to enter toys and therefore it becomes a no brainer to enter your email address and get the alerts.
In addition there could be information or links to articles about other generic dangers such as those small button batteries that can cause serious harm or death to a child. Or similarly curtain cords. Road safety etc. etc.
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't find any evidence of this recall; how did you find out about it? I guess that's the value of your site?
This was hard to find because the word "Layla" in the title of AMZN's product page is not used: http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2015/Dream-on-Me-Recalls-2-in...
That recall doesn't cover this item; this item's model number is 440-B, but the recalled ones are "439-A, 439-B, 439-G, 439-P and 439-W".
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#99just shut the computer and watch your kid. Eh, fcuking nerds
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
In light of the fact that the template you've linked looks exactly like recallbee.com, the author's comment "Thanks, I actually copied the image to see what it'd look like in place and forgot to take it out" seems disingenuous.
Not really. He just bought the template and customized it, and I imagine he wrote his own back-end as well. After all, it's just a bootstrap theme.
Seems like an honest mistake in using this theme, though taking an image from bootcamp is a little weird, probably just forgot but it should never have been in there even in a mockup.
The theme authors themeum should be ashamed of themselves though, and it looks like their theme has been swiftly deleted as it is now 404.
Looks like they just shamelessly rip off people's copyright work to put into their themes, first image from one of their premium themes came up on tineye as all rights reserved: