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My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?

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Re: My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?

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Post by michaelmartin »

Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis years ago!)

I'm curious about how you time all of this. Do the 170 invitations get sent out simultaneously (Bar the manual captcha ones), or is it more staggered?

e.g. Could the big fish like Techcrunch and such expect to be notified first normally, or is it a blast to everyone?

I'm also curious what your plans are to keep your service's reputation with the bloggers on the receiving end intact (The fact it is paid for, and not too cheap, really helps this I imagine), but anything else you have in mind? e.g. Do yous do any kind of filtering of the submissions?

Re: My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?

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Post by fookyong »

michaelmartin wrote: post #21

Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis years ago!) I'm curious about how you time all of this. Do the 170 invitations get sent out simultaneously (Bar the manual captcha ones), or is it more staggered? e.g. Could the big fish like Techcrunch and such expect to be notified first normally, or is it a bla…

haha puchi puchi... blast from the past.

the way Peterpings works is you set a time that you want your notification to be delivered and it delivers in the publisher's local time.

So if you say "I want publishers to see this at 9am on Monday" - the UK blogs will see it at their Monday 9am, and the US blogs will see it at their Monday 9am. And so on.

Delivery time is super important, as me and my co-founder have experienced many times first-hand.

As for reputation, you're right in that there is a natural filter, that being cost. Beyond that we have thought about narrower targeting / filtering but in the end it has to be up to the blogger. The more blogs we introduce, the more tools we will create for those bloggers - for example to only receive a certain genre of app notification (e.g. games). And we will always be transparent about the number of blogs that your notification goes to. Nobody wants to know that they are sending something to a blogger who doesn't want to receive it.

Re: My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?

#23

Post by ochekurishvili »

fookyong wrote: post #13
ochekurishvili wrote: post #10

Youngfook, congrats with launching another online venture. I'm your "follower" since the days of OpenSourceFood. The most important question I raise with submission services (like your PeterPings and AppLaunch) is that followed traffic would not be targeted. "Why A Link from TechCrunch Will Not Make You Rich" - this excellent article by Rob Walling better describes this issue: http://j.mp/VXJoDp

Thanks for the support! I'd answer by saying that we are not a "make you rich" service. For that, we'd be charging a lot more! Distributing your information to various sites just increases the chances of you being discovered. The more you put yourself out there, the more you're likely to be reviewed or mentioned or shared. This is PR 101. It's not going to turn you into a millionaire overnight, but it's just one of t…

Makes sense... As a customer I'd use PeterPings for boosting traffic in hope that it converts few sales time over time, but I wouldn't be relied on it.

Re: My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?

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Post by michaelmartin »

fookyong wrote: post #22
michaelmartin wrote: post #21

Congrats on the app launch (To give a different take on someone else's comment; I've been a fan of yours since you introduced my girlfriend to puchi puchis years ago!) I'm curious about how you time all of this. Do the 170 invitations get sent out simultaneously (Bar the manual captcha ones), or is it more staggered? e.g. Could the big fish like Techcrunch and such expect to be notified first normally, or is it a bla…

haha puchi puchi... blast from the past. the way Peterpings works is you set a time that you want your notification to be delivered and it delivers in the publisher's local time. So if you say "I want publishers to see this at 9am on Monday" - the UK blogs will see it at their Monday 9am, and the US blogs will see it at their Monday 9am. And so on. Delivery time is super important, as me and my co-founder have experi…

Ah I didn't realise that about the timings, that's a great solution. I definitely like the sound of localising that to each blogger.

The filtering tools sound great too, it's great to see yous already have plans for that area. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses, best of luck!

Re: My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?

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Post by rexreed »

fookyong wrote: post #14
robertwalsh0 wrote: post #12

Signed up, I don't have an iPhone app so this won't work for me. Would like to delete my account but pretty sure there's no way to do that on the 'my account' page.

what kind of app do you have? we're just getting started :)

Can this work for web / SaaS apps?
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