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Show HN: Transparent Startups – From Side Projects to Profitable Startups
- rafapaez 10y agoHi HN mates. I'm a Software Engineer and a Startup aficionado. I'm passionate about learning from Entrepreneurs that started from zero and managed to build a profitable and growing business. I'm always looking for inspiration and I do a lot of research about this kind of startup stories, especially coming from developers and tech founders. That's why I created Transparent Startups. What do you think about the site? What about the idea? Let me know your thoughts.
- rafapaez 10y agoI'm making this side project to help startups and people that want to become entrepreneurs. I need your feedback to continue working efficiently on this project.
- rafapaez 10y agoNo feedback at all is worst than negative feedback :(
- RangerScience 10y agoDo you have user behavior tracking (mouse position, scroll events) on the site?
- rafapaez 10y agoNot at the moment, I only have GA running. Why're you asking? Have you noticed any elements that maybe is not well positioned? Any tool recommendation for this? Thanks.
- RangerScience 10y agoYou don't have anyone providing written feedback, but you've got up-votes, indicating traffic. If you had a better idea as to what that traffic was doing, you'd have more "feedback" than you do now. I don't have tools I know of, sorry :/
- rafapaez 10y agoI've installed Page Analytics and I can see where the clicks are going. Even I don't have much traffic seems the people that visit the site are quite engaged. The only problem I can see is that not many of the visitors Subscribe to the Newsletter. I will work on that. Thank you mate ;)
- onurozkan 10y agoi really liked the idea, but i would love to see "how they did it" kinda interviews with growth chart. when they had a breakthrough etc.
- rafapaez 10y agoThanks for the feedback. The idea is show their monthly progress with the growth numbers but also linking to the founders' revenue reports (see "INCOME REPORTS" section on their profiles) . Most of them are already detailing very well "how they are doing" on a monthly basis, so I rather have a monthly update than one time interview. For example, BugMuncher's founder described "how he did it" on his series of (19 so far!) blog posts http://www.transparentstartups.com/startups/bugmuncher http://www.transparentstartups.com/startups/bugmuncher (clicking on the link for each month goes to their blog reports). So every month, the founder will be able to add the new revenue figures as well as linking to the new report, keeping Transparent Startups as the place where you can follow the growth of these business month by month.
- onurozkan 10y agooh sorry, missed the revenue reports which is the better than interviews.
- rafapaez 10y agoAgreed! From tomorrow, 1st October, founders will start publishing their September business figures and reports. I think they're going to be much better than August numbers.
- rafapaez 10y agoBTW, BugMucher just added September's growth numbers!
- rafapaez 10y agoAlso Readability-Score.com just added September's numbers and income report.
- stockkid 10y agoFeels kind of like a mixture of https://www.indiehackers.com https://www.indiehackers.com and https://baremetrics.com/open https://baremetrics.com/open. Good work on the UI. Very usable.