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Interesting and undeniably clever. However given you're looking for so many people you sure make it sound like you're doing me a favour whereas I see it as doin
by msy 16y ago
Interesting and undeniably clever. However given you're looking for so many people you sure make it sound like you're doing me a favour whereas I see it as doing you a favour.
Given I know nothing about your product, or how good it is, why on earth would I want to shout about it from the rooftops before I've even used it for any length of time? You're effectively asking me to lend my trust network to you to promote your product, without letting me use it first.
It seems to me you're more likely to get the techcrunch-refreshing, ohh-shiny, sign-up-to-anything crowd than the kind of people that might be really interested in your product.
- robgough 16y agoThere's an air of arrogance about this technique that rubs me up the wrong way. I'm sure it will be successful for them, but I won't clamouring to be one of the chosen few.
- photon_off 16y agoI agree completely. In addition, they seem to have achieved "meta-arrogance" by blogging about it as if it's the right way to do things.
- sachinag 16y agoIf you sign up for the Preview and never once tweet, Like, link to us, or whatever - if you're just like the 90% of normal users who come our way - you still get early access to Blueleaf. The vast, vast majority of our sign ups look like this, and that's totally OK. But we can't expect random people to come to our site if they don't read about it somewhere. This is what we're doing to try to make it easier for people to find us.
- msy 16y agoI understand, but that post was written as though you were running an exclusive nightclub, not a startup. Surely if the product really is as good as what came across to me as arrogance suggests, the buzz will happen organically, no?
- theBobMcCormick 16y agoExcellent point. Why would you blog, tweet, etc. about a site you haven't even used yet. What kind of loser demographic are they shooting for?