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Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by m4nu »

penguat wrote: post #82
m4nu wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1- Let everyone involved in the site creation (Clients, PM, devs ) communicate right on the live site by using "sticky note" 2- It can't be use on a public site without major refactor 3- Yes it will. I have a "Mirror" feature plan so that you can even mirror issue from "stage" site to you dev 4- Still unknown yet. Probably will have a free plan with some restriction, but the "small agency" tier would be around 29/mo

Also, an idea - even if it's not ready for production, you could wrap a site in an IFrame, and use Nota outside the frame? that could give you a quick way to a production-able system?

Actually Nota uses Iframe to display the site. The widget can not be accessed directly form the site unless you have selected the "Widget on" option when creating you project. This is defiantly save in production. There is almost no overhead of having the snippet in place.

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by m4nu »

baliex wrote: post #13

Hey, had no idea what it did.. signed up anyway and it's something I can see myself using. Kudos to you. One slight niggle so far.. there's a typo in your confirm email. "glad to have you abroad" should be "glad to have you aboard".

Thanks that. 300+ welcome email and you are the first who got that one !

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by shauchenka »

m4nu wrote: post #87
RamunasM wrote: post #37

How is this different from TrackDuck?

Never heard of it. Googled it, their certificate is broken and it seems to be fetching stuff from fishy domains name. I stopped there. If you used trackDuck tho I'd love to hear your feedback about how/if it differs.

Hi! I am a CDO at TrackDuck. Very strange problem, what browser/os you use? From what domain you got ssl alert?

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by [deleted] »

shauchenka wrote: post #93
m4nu wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never heard of it. Googled it, their certificate is broken and it seems to be fetching stuff from fishy domains name. I stopped there. If you used trackDuck tho I'd love to hear your feedback about how/if it differs.

Hi! I am a CDO at TrackDuck. Very strange problem, what browser/os you use? From what domain you got ssl alert?

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Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by bitJericho »

m4nu wrote: post #84
bitJericho wrote: post #17

No price listed. I usually don't sign up to anything unless the price is listed.

Faire enough. I didn't list prices because I was not sure but now I understand some prices (even if inaccurate) are better than non at all. I am thinking: 1 Active Project + 1 Archived Project, Unlimited users 9USD/mo 3 Active Project + 2 Archived Project, Unlimited users 19USD/mo 5 Active Project + 3 Archived Project, Unlimited users 29USD/mo

Well it depends on your use cases. As a general rule of thumb, if you don't publish prices it means it's too expensive for the common man (eg, it's aimed at businesses).

I can't really see any small time indie (I could be very wrong I've looked at your project a total of 5 minutes tops) using this. 20/30 dollars seems really low if you're only going to get a small amount of customers.

I'd read up on this thread posted here on HN just a few days ago, there's an incredible amount of info here:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by wiseleo »

I understood your site because I use screenshot browser extensions frequently.

Most people have no idea such tools exist. You are asking them to envision a concept that they never imagined is possible today.

Your animated graphic is clear to me, but it's not explicit enough.

You also appear to include features of tools like Clicktale, which is interesting and not prominent enough.

I agree that this tool must be live on your own site. :)

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by vbrendel »

Take any notion of "beta" off your site. You want people to sign up thinking it's production ready and start test and improving your funnel based on a trickle feed of new visitors. Use A/B testing and talk to people that leave their details on why they did or did not use it and improve accordingly.

Watch this video for background: http://vimeo.com/54118238

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by m4nu »

vbrendel wrote: post #97

Take any notion of "beta" off your site. You want people to sign up thinking it's production ready and start test and improving your funnel based on a trickle feed of new visitors. Use A/B testing and talk to people that leave their details on why they did or did not use it and improve accordingly. Watch this video for background: http://vimeo.com/54118238

Thanks, good point. That is the next step.

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by m4nu »

alttab wrote: post #89
m4nu wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well there is a whole bunch of value that goes with this. Event tracking, rendering of pretty damn accurate "screen grabs", reproducing of the environment. I think you made a good point about the typical project live spam and I might be reason why people can not get to use the tool righ away. I personally see that tool being very useful for "intra team" communication as well.

The next use you described came from yourself. The rest of the thread is emerging with a consistent theme, "what are your customers saying?"

Yep I got that much out of it. So far I was not really lucky communicating with them. Will push further down that path. Thanks for the input.

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by RamunasM »

m4nu wrote: post #87
RamunasM wrote: post #37

How is this different from TrackDuck?

Never heard of it. Googled it, their certificate is broken and it seems to be fetching stuff from fishy domains name. I stopped there. If you used trackDuck tho I'd love to hear your feedback about how/if it differs.

I've used their product. Worked pretty well. Didn't have the time to give your product a shot yet, so can't compare. I get no SSL errors on their page
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