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I'm a hypothetical iPhone App developer. Catch my attention and interest: You need something concrete to catch me and have me say "Yes! This solves a problem th
by aristidb 16y ago
I'm a hypothetical iPhone App developer. Catch my attention and interest: You need something concrete to catch me and have me say "Yes! This solves a problem that is annoying me already." I don't think that is sufficiently communicated on your website.
Why should I trust you? You're just a tiny business, and will probably go bankrupt any minute. Can you calm me down? Or do you want to avoid waking sleeping dogs?
You say you offer a very nice data entry solution like a CMS, and a nice REST API. That sounds interesting, but if I haven't overcome my fears from above, can you maybe separate them and have them access a database that I let Amazon run for me?
(This is a summary of a discussion on the #startups IRC channel.)
- sashthebash 16y agoSeparating the application itself from the database is an interesting idea. But then you would still need to host a database yourself somewhere. If you don't trust me you must also be afraid of me messing up your own database with my solution (My solution would need write access). A lot of mobile application developers are probably not experts in server management and backups. It is not their priority and core competence. They want to build great applications quickly. My solution gives them an easy to use CMS with a REST API for a low monthly cost, and they don't have to care about backing up data themselves. If they don't fully trust me, they can export their data from the CMS regularly themselves, so in a worst case scenario they still have their content.