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Show HN: anti-procrastination community for startup founders

23 points by vanni 15y ago

vanni 15y ago
Hi fellow HNers, I'm Giovanni (aka Vanni) Totaro, founder of asaclock™. I'm building an effective solution for startup single founders (and would-be ones) to beat procrastination and ship their damn MVP. You've never seen such a thing, trust me. Expect a lot of psychological tricks (opt-in, of course). Please show your interest now leaving your email for launch notification, or THE NEXT GOOD THING will never happen. It is up to you. Feedback is welcome. Thanks :)
- dpapathanasiou 15y ago
  I'm your target market (single founder), and I'm interested in the idea, but not sure about signing up based on the (sparse) information provided. Can you give us more of a hint about how it works?
  - vanni 15y ago
    Some peers will check every week that you made your self-committed work. And vice-versa. You will build your reputation putting your face in public. If you want, your relatives and/or (ex) colleagues/friends will be notified via email about your behaviour. You'll be ranked as worker and ranked as advisor. You'll establish a small (let's say 10 people) group of advisors. And really much more. And all this through a simple and effective web interface. All this highly configurable to push you where your psychological limit is. And much more. Really. Thank you for your interest :)
mattwdelong 15y ago
> receive your 1 years 10% off gift. Does this mean you will be charging for it? Don't get me wrong, it may be a good idea to pursue this but perhaps you never considered that people who procrastinate are likely to be too lazy to sign up, and start using this - let alone pay for it. "Oh, it's 10 bucks..I'll get my card and do it later" Maybe I'm confusing procrastination with laziness, but I just don't think this is something neither type of person would pay for. Regardless, best of luck!
- vanni 15y ago
  Thank you for your feedback, Matt! Yeah, I'll charge for it, but with different levels and with a very affordable entry level. I'm thinking to people that cannot go straight toward the MVP. They will benefit for sure from being "controlled" by some peer. Relatives and friends don't work well for this, they are too much condescending. Again thank you.
jmj4 15y ago
I like this idea, but the price would have to be quite low for me to consider paying for it. It seems like you want people to pay to be apart of this. Not sure that's the way to build a strong, useful community. I would think about starting with a free version, and if the community grows strong enough, people will be begging to get in. Charge them then if you want.
- vanni 15y ago
  Thank you for your feedback! Yes, there will be different level prices. Basic one will be quite low. But there will not be a free version, because asaclock will be a community of serious people that think their idea is worth some bucks per month. So spammers and trolls will be cut out. Thank you.
  - kovacs 15y ago
    Nice unbounce page ;-) (The star icons give it away) Honestly right now it's not worth anything to anyone and I'm sure you're losing potential signups. I was going to sign up until I saw that you were going to charge for it. It's way too early to do that when there's not a clear enough value prop. for anyone to do so. Take out the "I'm gonna charge you for this" and just see if people want the thing at all even if it's free. That's my $.02 :-)
    - vanni 15y ago
      Eheh, not an unbounce page. All mine on a Linode VPS. I'll charge for this. So I'm not interested to emails of people who would not pay for it. According to your idea I would drop "elite" too. No no, we'll be few and good :) Thank you for your feedback!
petervandijck 15y ago
Isn't that like an anti-drinking bar for alcoholics?

23 points by vanni 15y ago

vanni 15y ago

Hi fellow HNers, I'm Giovanni (aka Vanni) Totaro, founder of asaclock™. I'm building an effective solution for startup single founders (and would-be ones) to beat procrastination and ship their damn MVP. You've never seen such a thing, trust me. Expect a lot of psychological tricks (opt-in, of course). Please show your interest now leaving your email for launch notification, or THE NEXT GOOD THING will never happen. It is up to you. Feedback is welcome. Thanks :)

dpapathanasiou 15y ago
I'm your target market (single founder), and I'm interested in the idea, but not sure about signing up based on the (sparse) information provided. Can you give us more of a hint about how it works?
- vanni 15y ago
  Some peers will check every week that you made your self-committed work. And vice-versa. You will build your reputation putting your face in public. If you want, your relatives and/or (ex) colleagues/friends will be notified via email about your behaviour. You'll be ranked as worker and ranked as advisor. You'll establish a small (let's say 10 people) group of advisors. And really much more. And all this through a simple and effective web interface. All this highly configurable to push you where your psychological limit is. And much more. Really. Thank you for your interest :)

mattwdelong 15y ago

> receive your 1 years 10% off gift. Does this mean you will be charging for it? Don't get me wrong, it may be a good idea to pursue this but perhaps you never considered that people who procrastinate are likely to be too lazy to sign up, and start using this - let alone pay for it. "Oh, it's 10 bucks..I'll get my card and do it later" Maybe I'm confusing procrastination with laziness, but I just don't think this is something neither type of person would pay for. Regardless, best of luck!

vanni 15y ago
Thank you for your feedback, Matt! Yeah, I'll charge for it, but with different levels and with a very affordable entry level. I'm thinking to people that cannot go straight toward the MVP. They will benefit for sure from being "controlled" by some peer. Relatives and friends don't work well for this, they are too much condescending. Again thank you.

jmj4 15y ago

I like this idea, but the price would have to be quite low for me to consider paying for it. It seems like you want people to pay to be apart of this. Not sure that's the way to build a strong, useful community. I would think about starting with a free version, and if the community grows strong enough, people will be begging to get in. Charge them then if you want.

vanni 15y ago
Thank you for your feedback! Yes, there will be different level prices. Basic one will be quite low. But there will not be a free version, because asaclock will be a community of serious people that think their idea is worth some bucks per month. So spammers and trolls will be cut out. Thank you.
- kovacs 15y ago
  Nice unbounce page ;-) (The star icons give it away) Honestly right now it's not worth anything to anyone and I'm sure you're losing potential signups. I was going to sign up until I saw that you were going to charge for it. It's way too early to do that when there's not a clear enough value prop. for anyone to do so. Take out the "I'm gonna charge you for this" and just see if people want the thing at all even if it's free. That's my $.02 :-)
  - vanni 15y ago
    Eheh, not an unbounce page. All mine on a Linode VPS. I'll charge for this. So I'm not interested to emails of people who would not pay for it. According to your idea I would drop "elite" too. No no, we'll be few and good :) Thank you for your feedback!

petervandijck 15y ago

Isn't that like an anti-drinking bar for alcoholics?