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Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Re: Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Post by DealsForHackers »

The Hacker News community is awesome! Yesterday, I posted this question, Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328)

The response was overwhelming - 81.2% of respondents said that they would subscribe to the email list if Deals for Hackers existed.

So, keeping with my Customer Development approach, I'm now going to try to close 5 deals. These should be deals that the Hacker community cares about - books, tech conferences, gear, cool startup stuff, etc.

If you subscribe to the list (and please do), you'll start to receive deals if and when I can close them.

Thanks again for your support!

Re: Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Post by thomasb »

DealsForHackers wrote: post #2

The Hacker News community is awesome! Yesterday, I posted this question, Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested? ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328 ) The response was overwhelming - 81.2% of respondents said that they would subscribe to the email list if Deals for Hackers existed. So, keeping with my Customer Development approach, I'm now going to try to close 5 deals. These should be deals that the Hacker c…

That's great news. Definitely sounds like a good service. I can't wait!

Re: Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Post by DealsForHackers »

thomasb wrote: post #3
DealsForHackers wrote: post #2

The Hacker News community is awesome! Yesterday, I posted this question, Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested? ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328 ) The response was overwhelming - 81.2% of respondents said that they would subscribe to the email list if Deals for Hackers existed. So, keeping with my Customer Development approach, I'm now going to try to close 5 deals. These should be deals that the Hacker c…

That's great news. Definitely sounds like a good service. I can't wait!

Thanks, I really appreciate that! Hopefully, we'll see deals coming in about a week.

Re: Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Post by sbisker »

puls wrote: post #5

Only thing I'd change so far: stop being so anonymous! People will want to put a face and a name to a service. You signed the announcement email "-The Dude Behind Deals for Hackers". Who are you?

While you're at it, tells us about your experience with your "Customer Development" approach. Clearly something you're doing is giving you at least internal momentum; giving us some insight as to your successes and failures will only make us root for you more.

Re: Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Post by tzm »

I was one of the supporters in that survey. Curious to see what pricing sensitivity levels the HN community would support for this service. From a business perspective, this would help you focus on a specific segment, product mix and open up more discussion around the type of deals "we" would be interested in.

You might consider digging deeper into what the community wants. I would be willing to answer more questions.

Cheers.

Re: Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

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Post by ljf »

tzm wrote: post #7

I was one of the supporters in that survey. Curious to see what pricing sensitivity levels the HN community would support for this service. From a business perspective, this would help you focus on a specific segment, product mix and open up more discussion around the type of deals "we" would be interested in. You might consider digging deeper into what the community wants. I would be willing to answer more questions…

Agreed - in the same way Groupon targets different towns, i wonder if this will target different 'kinds' of geeks...
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