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I really hope this does well (because I'd like to discover more interesting and useful content). I've been on the home page a few times and haven't yet signed

by arikr 8y ago

I really hope this does well (because I'd like to discover more interesting and useful content). I've been on the home page a few times and haven't yet signed up. My behavior on the homepage has been to click the "more example threads" button. I'd guess that the thing that would make me more likely to sign up is to be able to see/discover more great threads before signing up. (Similar suggestions that people have given to twitter, i.e. provide max utility for logged out users so people who aren't yet converts can experience the magic. I think that might apply to your site) Hope this helps and I'll look forward to seeing the site succeed! Tl;Dr I'd personally be interested in seeing more cool threads on the homepage and perhaps displayed in a way that makes it easier to find ones that are particularly interesting to me, so that I can get "hooked" on the service. (Makes me think of Chamath's talk, where he talked about facebook's magic moment being 7 friends in 10 days https://ryangum.com/chamath-palihapitiya-how-we-put-facebook-on-the-path-to-1-billion-users/ https://ryangum.com/chamath-palihapitiya-how-we-put-facebook... - I wonder if your magic moment is getting people to discover a thread that is both really useful or interesting to them and that they feel is secret/that they likely wouldn't have been able to find elsewhere on the internet)

Alex3917 8y ago
> I really hope this does well (because I'd like to discover more interesting and useful content). Thanks! Expect to see more content in the near future. And we definitely need to redo our front page and incorporate more cool content. It's a lot better than when we launched, but I feel like we haven't quite hit a level of professionalism that's reflective of the rest of the site. We’re trying to avoid raising capital, so what we’re really looking for right now is a larger company (1,000+ employees) to adopt us for a year so that we can keep evolving the internal tooling and make sure it’s satisfying a real need. (If anyone is interested, send me an email.)
- arikr 8y ago
  Best of luck :)
- canada_dry 8y ago
  If you want the old school Fortune 500 folks you should take aim at Sharepoint. It's still how this kind of thing (internal corporate blogging) gets done at big old corporate beasts. Do you even have a sharepoint add-in?
  - Alex3917 8y ago
    Thanks for the advice. We've been talking with a couple Fortune 500 companies who are using Exchange and Sharepoint, so if we end up building out an enterprise deployment for them then we'll probably end up doing this. I don't want to start building out enterprise stuff though until we have a paying enterprise customer who is asking for specific things. The product is good enough for enterprise, the real issue is just making sure the upload process is aligned with the workflows of people within the company so that way the effort and cognitive overhead of contributing is low enough that lots of documentation gets created.

by arikr 8y ago

Alex3917 8y ago

> I really hope this does well (because I'd like to discover more interesting and useful content). Thanks! Expect to see more content in the near future. And we definitely need to redo our front page and incorporate more cool content. It's a lot better than when we launched, but I feel like we haven't quite hit a level of professionalism that's reflective of the rest of the site. We’re trying to avoid raising capital, so what we’re really looking for right now is a larger company (1,000+ employees) to adopt us for a year so that we can keep evolving the internal tooling and make sure it’s satisfying a real need. (If anyone is interested, send me an email.)

arikr 8y ago
Best of luck :)
canada_dry 8y ago
If you want the old school Fortune 500 folks you should take aim at Sharepoint. It's still how this kind of thing (internal corporate blogging) gets done at big old corporate beasts. Do you even have a sharepoint add-in?
- Alex3917 8y ago
  Thanks for the advice. We've been talking with a couple Fortune 500 companies who are using Exchange and Sharepoint, so if we end up building out an enterprise deployment for them then we'll probably end up doing this. I don't want to start building out enterprise stuff though until we have a paying enterprise customer who is asking for specific things. The product is good enough for enterprise, the real issue is just making sure the upload process is aligned with the workflows of people within the company so that way the effort and cognitive overhead of contributing is low enough that lots of documentation gets created.