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All I was "offering" by the way was 'free updates' What? I don't get it. What is a 'free update'? Sorry - your whole post is just weird and I don't get it.

• jere 14y ago
  >Sorry - your whole post is just weird and I don't get it. Uh... ok. People often, before launching a product, put up a landing page advertising that the product is coming soon. On this page, they give a brief description (or hint) about the product and they have a form in which people can submit their email in exchange for updates about the product. It was covered 5 years ago in The 4 Hour Work Week. There are even several tools to do it. Landing pages are posted to HN all the time. I didn't think this concept was especially strange. I'm surprised you have never encountered such a page.
  • ScottWhigham 14y ago
    I'm surprised you have never encountered such a page. It's not that I've never encountered such a page; it's that you did a rather poor job of explaining what you were doing in the first place. If you'd said, "Here's what I want to do" and then explained what that was in even minor detail, people would've been able to follow you. Instead, you said I made a custom one the other day that briefly describes the product, collects emails, and does a little A/B testing. That's it - that's your only explanation of what you were doing. You then further said All I was "offering" by the way was 'free updates'. It made no sense then, and it still doesn't make sense when I read it an hour or so later. No need to write an insulting reply to me when I've basically asked you for clarity in an attempt to help you solve your problem. That's a jerk reply and it implies that I'm an idiot for not "reading between the lines" of your text. Screw that - I don't need to help when people act like that to others who try to help.