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I have been reading the comments and and I agree with you. my thoughts are as below. 1) The poster has no market plan and is building one on the go. 2) Haven'

by miyuru 6y ago

I have been reading the comments and and I agree with you. my thoughts are as below. 1) The poster has no market plan and is building one on the go. 2) Haven't done any kind of market research. 3) The poster does not seem to have an actual platform built. seems to only have the domain at this stage. 4) Very poor presentation of the product on the site. 5) Does not actually solve the problem the market has. Does not bring anything new to the table. I have done research on ghost hosting and there is a demand for low end ghost instances but the problem with ghost is its not profitable due to its scalability and management problems at lower scale.

sudhirj 6y ago
All of the points are true, but to paint them negatively contradicts YC Startup School advice. This is a minimum usable product that does things that don't scale. If you email me, you'll get a Ghost install you can log in to and an invoice on Stripe. I'll walk you through everything, Collison brothers style, and give you ideas on how to set it up for your team and do low-key editing for you, early-airbnb style. If there are over a 100 people who want this, I'll build out a self service dashboard that automates everything, and get a designer. But I do think it would be idiotic to start this project by hiring a designer and writing thousands of lines of dashboard and automation / system state management code. Doesn't mean I can't do it (have done it professionally enough times). Regarding it not solving a problem the market has, that may be the case, in which case I'm down a landing page, will think up a new idea next month. But the world is a big place, and the market is bigger than we all think. Would be nice if we could be nicer to people - at the end of the day we're all still normal humans trying to figure out what to do after a pandemic has turned careers upside down. A simple downvote would have been enough.
- ayewo 6y ago
  HN is a tough crowd, especially for technical products that are familiar to many. Even though it’s pretty clear who your target market is, I think technical products cause commenters to roast your product from a technical end user frame, rather than from a non-technical user frame. Anyway, wishing you the best on your entrepreneurial journey!

by miyuru 6y ago

sudhirj 6y ago

All of the points are true, but to paint them negatively contradicts YC Startup School advice. This is a minimum usable product that does things that don't scale. If you email me, you'll get a Ghost install you can log in to and an invoice on Stripe. I'll walk you through everything, Collison brothers style, and give you ideas on how to set it up for your team and do low-key editing for you, early-airbnb style. If there are over a 100 people who want this, I'll build out a self service dashboard that automates everything, and get a designer. But I do think it would be idiotic to start this project by hiring a designer and writing thousands of lines of dashboard and automation / system state management code. Doesn't mean I can't do it (have done it professionally enough times). Regarding it not solving a problem the market has, that may be the case, in which case I'm down a landing page, will think up a new idea next month. But the world is a big place, and the market is bigger than we all think. Would be nice if we could be nicer to people - at the end of the day we're all still normal humans trying to figure out what to do after a pandemic has turned careers upside down. A simple downvote would have been enough.

ayewo 6y ago
HN is a tough crowd, especially for technical products that are familiar to many. Even though it’s pretty clear who your target market is, I think technical products cause commenters to roast your product from a technical end user frame, rather than from a non-technical user frame. Anyway, wishing you the best on your entrepreneurial journey!