New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
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New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
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Re: New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
#2I love this idea for a service. I could see using it a lot even though I'm a programmer.
Ok, here's an MVP I want. What do you think of this:
I already have a twitter account where users submit quotes. It picks up 20k new followers a month and most quotes gets 200+ retweets. I'm starting to think it could be a "big" deal.
I want to test a leader board for submitters to see if that encourages even more participation and also test the top quotes put onto mugs and t-shirts to see if there's revenue potential.
I think the MVP is: - a static web page of the top quotes from the past week (pulled manually based on retweets) - the static page should have # of retweets and the profile photo and twitter name of the person submitted it - the top quote should be tied to a cafe press store - a few tweets announcing the leaderboard to my followers
I'm expecting you to be the master of best practices. What details am I missing? Do you have feedback on the MVP?
I'll check the comments here, but I'm willing to pay, so you can also email me: tony@tonystubblebine.com
Re: New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
#3How is the title relevant? If anything it only makes me want to stay away.
Re: New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
#4How is the title relevant? If anything it only makes me want to stay away.
I thought it was relevant because I built the site in less than 90 minutes. I could be wrong, ideas for an edit?
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#5How is the title relevant? If anything it only makes me want to stay away.
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#7I love this idea. But I'm not seeing the thing on your site that makes me believe you can do this (e.g. the big PORTFOLIO button). How do I get that confidence?
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#8The idea is really nice (IF you can actually execute)!
I don't like the website though:
* all the toplevel links take you to another website. I usually expect those to take you to pages that are at least consistent with the top domain I'm coming from.
* FOUNDER'S BLOCK is listed twice.
* There is a list of people with a small blurb, that initially made me think they work for this website: Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Brant & Peter. Now I think it's just a list of people that "inspire" the author. Anyhow, it looks like a way to use the "celebrity" of these guys a bit.
* "rcavezza [atttt] gmail {dddottt} com." Bite the bullet, make actual mailto: links or at least some form. Don't make me hand-edit your email, it's an artificial barrier to getting new customers.
* "ANOTHER WEBSITE CREATED BY BOB CAVEZZA." Not to be rude, but it sounds puerile: "another website"?
* "Designed by STUDIO7DESIGNS": This is too prominent.
Re: New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups
#9An excellent concept. The reality is, most 'ideas' can be tried out in it's minimum form fairly quickly - with the added benefit that from day one, you are getting ranked in google, getting feedback, collecting email addresses and taking sign ups.
My personal approach, is to use word press on cheap hosting. I know how to customize word press to do almost anything I want and can get something up in a few hours to test the market (check for validity of my keyword analysis). Obviously not everyone knows php / how to customise word press, so your solution is ideal for those founders with the idea but no technical knowledge.
Once the idea has been tested, I'll then spend longer building the better product (if needed), knowing that the initial feedback I got from launching early will save me from building the wrong thing.