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I've built a petition system that allow users to publish their own petitions and download signatures lists. Got a handful of loyal customers acquired threw rela
by bpizzi 8y ago
I've built a petition system that allow users to publish their own petitions and download signatures lists. Got a handful of loyal customers acquired threw relations. MRR is ~500€ since +10 years. Won't give the url here because it's running on a ultra cheap dedicated server at 5€/m, HN would blow it down in one minute :)
- Beltiras 8y agoDon't fear the reaper.
- justaguyhere 8y agoHa, this is a good one. "Publish their own petitions" - can you give an example? Share more details, without giving your URL or any other secret sauce away?
- bpizzi 8y agoSure, the typical customer is this semi-professional non-profit organization that need something more "result driven" than change.org when it comes to build its audience (nothing black hat, really).
- akudha 8y agoI guess I am missing something. Why should I use your service than change.org? I'm sure you know your audience very well - it is just that I am missing something.
- bpizzi 8y agoTwo things: build the form and collect the data. Now that I think about it, it's a "surveymonkey" disguised in "change.org", actually.
- midnightmonster 8y agoWife runs a not-for-profit. This is brilliant. My perception is that petitions don't often accomplish their stated goals, but what if the side benefits of gauging interest, drawing light first-step commitments, and collecting contact information accrued to your org instead of an activism-feelings-aggregator like change.org? That may come off as cynical to people, but as a petition-signer, I'd rather get followed up a couple times by an organization actually working on something I care about (and given a path to act a little more on my caring, even if it's 'come to this event' or 'give us money') than followed up indefinitely by change.org, who cannot seem to guess well at all what sort of petitions I'd like to support.
- justaguyhere 8y agoSo your wife's use case would be : she would create a petition, her users would sign it, then she would download their contact details, correct? What happens to the petition itself? Is there any action on it?
- bpizzi 8y agoHey, I see what you're on, don't steal my prospect :D (joking ;))
- midnightmonster 8y agoJust as much happens to it as usually happens to a petition. If you get enough signatures, you present it to whomever you think should care: government body or local news or whatever. There’s even a chance that they actually care and it makes a modest difference in some legislator’s deliberation or generates some publicity about the issue.
- kozziollek 8y ago> ultra cheap dedicated server at 5€/m Dedicated? How? Where?