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Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product

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Re: Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product

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Post by nrmclean »

jumpbug wrote: post #28
ericb wrote: post #25

Very cool! FYI, I would pay for this, but $8,400/yr. is a killer for a startup. You're leaving what might be a lot money on the table at the bottom that you could scoop up with graduated pricing. This might also protect you from competitors, because if you leave the low end open, you may get eaten by a copycat offering cheap/freemium. For example, Github vs. Gitlab and Mailchimp(freemium) vs. Constant Contact. You've…

Agreed, at $8,400/yr I feel like I might as well just pay my devs an implement something like introjs. Granted, not as powerful, but still..... I did immediately think to myself that this was a needed product when I saw.

Definitely, thanks for the kind words and feedback here. Pricing is something we're still iterating on and a plan that's palatable for startups is in the future. Stay tuned!

Re: Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product

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Post by inthewoods »

I think I'm being thick on this one - there is the first section with the guide overlay, and then a link to the full demo (hosted at demo.navattic.com). Does Navattic create both of these, or just the first section that walks the user through the product?

Off-topic: did you use a framework for the demo app? It's very nice looking!

Re: Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product

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Post by disiplus »

ericb wrote: post #25

Very cool! FYI, I would pay for this, but $8,400/yr. is a killer for a startup. You're leaving what might be a lot money on the table at the bottom that you could scoop up with graduated pricing. This might also protect you from competitors, because if you leave the low end open, you may get eaten by a copycat offering cheap/freemium. For example, Github vs. Gitlab and Mailchimp(freemium) vs. Constant Contact. You've…

the building blocks are all there, take something like inspectlet.com and introjs.com and you are probably close. but somebody has to build it. i see the value but the pricing looks like crazy to me. then again maybe for VC backed startups thats nothing.

Re: Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product

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Post by rafrank »

inthewoods wrote: post #32

I think I'm being thick on this one - there is the first section with the guide overlay, and then a link to the full demo (hosted at demo.navattic.com). Does Navattic create both of these, or just the first section that walks the user through the product? Off-topic: did you use a framework for the demo app? It's very nice looking!

We used Navattic to create both sections. We copied the application front end and added in a guided walkthrough using our demo creation platform.

We used Windmill Dashboard React (https://github.com/estevanmaito/windmill-dashboard-react) to create the sample app!

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