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Make the homepage the app. There must be no marketing. You arrive at http://prettygraph.com http://prettygraph.com and there's your new graph creator already up
by jorangreef 16y ago
Make the homepage the app. There must be no marketing. You arrive at http://prettygraph.com http://prettygraph.com and there's your new graph creator already up and running. Once you've created your graph (using the interface to add data points, or to import data from a uri or file upload) you can then choose to add an email address and password to enable changes to be made later, see all graphs you've made etc.
Don't focus on a "target market". Focus on making the best graph creator. The target markets will gravitate to you naturally if your graphs look the best and are the easiest to create.
- revorad 16y agoThank you. That was actually my very first version. Perhaps I need to go back to doing that. And thanks for reminding my goal - to make the best graph creator.
- jorangreef 16y agoSome more ideas: when in doubt, go for consumers, the every day Joe who needs a graph in their presentation but forgot how to use Excel charts or couldn't figure out how to get the Google Chart Api to return a result. Don't worry about building the next WolframAlpha for charts. Don't worry about a developer API. Make sure you have a great interface for adding a few data points and getting a graph back. Even better, make it real-time, as you add a data-point the graph adjusts or bends or morphs. Keep it simple. Focus on eliminating things.
- revorad 16y agoThe problem with going for consumers is that I don't see them paying for something like this. I agree about keeping it simple though.
- jorangreef 16y agoNot all consumers will pay, but like Flickr, you can serve consumers and charge the loyal "pro" user subset. Focus on the basic interface first. Add the advanced features later.