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Re: Ask HN: Review My Startup - KickoffLabs.com

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Post by jdeville »

Scott, I looked at you guys the other day, and I couldn't see what you did that launchrock and unbounce didn't, but for free.

LaunchRock adds the social validation thing. I'm not sold on their thinking there. (I'm using it to find my target market, which means I'd be ok if they were just able to track IF they shared, not how effective they were).

Unbounce has better reporting than launchrock, and some nice templates, but their social contest pages are smoke and mirrors. You can't determine if anyone shared w/ them either.

Both are free to try though. 50 signups on someone else's domain is simply useless, unless you're anticipating failure.

Re: Ask HN: Review My Startup - KickoffLabs.com

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Post by swatermasysk »

luffy wrote: post #9

Once someone gets their site set up, what is the plan for actually getting eyeballs on it? If you can figure that out then you are on to something. I see that you are using social networking with Twitter/FB, etc, but that is a chicken/egg problem. To use social networking to advertise your site, you need to actually have an audience to begin with. In which case, you probably wouldn't be interested in this type of pro…

Agreed there is a huge opportunity in solving the "eye ball" problem. Unfortunately the days of 1 to 5 cent clicks on Adwords is a thing of the past.

I still think there is more we can do to help the organic stuff, but getting started today still requires rolling up your sleeves and doing real work.

Re: Ask HN: Review My Startup - KickoffLabs.com

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Post by jeffdeville »

Scott, I looked at you guys the other day, and I couldn't see what you did that launchrock and unbounce didn't, but for free.

LaunchRock adds the social validation thing. I'm not sold on their thinking there. (I'm using it to find my target market, which means I'd be ok if they were just able to track IF they shared, not how effective they were).

Unbounce has better reporting than launchrock, and some nice templates, but their social contest pages are smoke and mirrors. You can't determine if anyone shared w/ them either.

Both are free to try though. 50 signups on someone else's domain is simply useless, unless you're anticipating failure.

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