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Hi! At first I wanted to build something similar for regular folks that would be looking for online tools. But then I thought that while it could work, it would

by Zernat 2y ago

Hi! At first I wanted to build something similar for regular folks that would be looking for online tools. But then I thought that while it could work, it would require a lot of additional work (researching how price tiers works for each website, does tool have free tier available etc.) and then presenting it in a nice, fancy way (screenshots, logos etc.). So looking at the amount of "frontend" work I thought that I could pivot into targeting people that are not "regular" users. But rather: - people looking for ideas for their business - existing business researching competition or businesses to partner up with - some general way to track trends, see what was done and in what way etc. - maybe marketing people? That is my current idea. Do you think it makes sense?

PaulHoule 2y ago
If you are looking at the pro user you're competing against CrunchBase in my opinion https://www.crunchbase.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/ Whenever I've been doing business development I've either had a subscription or thought about getting one. Also LinkedIn.
- Zernat 2y ago
  That's amazing, thank you very much for sharing! I had no idea about crunchbase. Hmm, so I guess the idea here is that I would be building crunchbase for poor people. It looks like they are charging 99$ per month or 588$ per year, for 4M entries (with far more info that I would have, and far more features). So the question is, could I steal some of their customers by offering much smaller amount of data with much smaller price? I am wondering, if I would have 50 000 entries looking similar to what I already have in my demo (but with better search capabilities), would it be worth, let's say 5$ per month (x searches per day or something) and/or maybe 50$/100$ for a whole database dump in a .csv format? My demo looks like that currently - https://lazarustest.eu.pythonanywhere.com/ https://lazarustest.eu.pythonanywhere.com/

by Zernat 2y ago

PaulHoule 2y ago

If you are looking at the pro user you're competing against CrunchBase in my opinion https://www.crunchbase.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/ Whenever I've been doing business development I've either had a subscription or thought about getting one. Also LinkedIn.

Zernat 2y ago
That's amazing, thank you very much for sharing! I had no idea about crunchbase. Hmm, so I guess the idea here is that I would be building crunchbase for poor people. It looks like they are charging 99$ per month or 588$ per year, for 4M entries (with far more info that I would have, and far more features). So the question is, could I steal some of their customers by offering much smaller amount of data with much smaller price? I am wondering, if I would have 50 000 entries looking similar to what I already have in my demo (but with better search capabilities), would it be worth, let's say 5$ per month (x searches per day or something) and/or maybe 50$/100$ for a whole database dump in a .csv format? My demo looks like that currently - https://lazarustest.eu.pythonanywhere.com/ https://lazarustest.eu.pythonanywhere.com/