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Building Software in Public

14 points by rsobers 13y ago

mordae 13y ago
Oh. Data-driven Parenting?! Seriously? As in, "you were a naughty child, we can't employ you?".
- rsobers 13y ago
  Huh? No, not at all. :-) It's more like: Sally's morning nap is getting shorter and shorter, maybe it's time to switch her to just 1 nap a day. Or, what snack did Joey have today at daycare? Was he in a good mood? Are we low on diapers?
lifeisstillgood 13y ago
Not sure where the data driven parenting part comes in from earlier comment - this seems to be a app for snagging photos and "took first steps". As a parent of young children at nursery school, I would love it if they supplied snaps and so on (They do use some iPad app, and print things out to a folder) - it just has all gone so quickly so something to pull it together whould have been / will be useful. That said, I have nothing like the time to upload a photo to J Random website. Hence my marketing tip o' the day -> get day care and nursery schools on board - you have a market. Try and get parents on board and you have maybe three email signups. I did not see but are you releaseing the code under a free license? Also, Barry and patio11 open their books to a developer audience whilst mostly selling to a developer audience. So you might not get the same uplift. Then again its worth trying, HN readers have sex too :-)
- rsobers 13y ago
  I totally agree: daycare is the market. The only reason I'm marketing to stay-at-home parents and nannies is because the app doesn't really have to change in order to do so, and because parents are very vocal online and can really help spread the word. I might drop the parent/home angle eventually. We'll see. Yeah, the book and the app are totally separate audiences. Not ideal, but that's how it turned out. Munchkin Report is my personal Bingo Card Creator (h/t patio11).
  - lifeisstillgood 13y ago
    Good luck
jhartikainen 13y ago
I think it's going to be interesting to read about this as I'm sort of building a SaaS myself as well. Subscribed to the blog feed

14 points by rsobers 13y ago

mordae 13y ago

Oh. Data-driven Parenting?! Seriously? As in, "you were a naughty child, we can't employ you?".

rsobers 13y ago
Huh? No, not at all. :-) It's more like: Sally's morning nap is getting shorter and shorter, maybe it's time to switch her to just 1 nap a day. Or, what snack did Joey have today at daycare? Was he in a good mood? Are we low on diapers?

lifeisstillgood 13y ago

Not sure where the data driven parenting part comes in from earlier comment - this seems to be a app for snagging photos and "took first steps". As a parent of young children at nursery school, I would love it if they supplied snaps and so on (They do use some iPad app, and print things out to a folder) - it just has all gone so quickly so something to pull it together whould have been / will be useful. That said, I have nothing like the time to upload a photo to J Random website. Hence my marketing tip o' the day -> get day care and nursery schools on board - you have a market. Try and get parents on board and you have maybe three email signups. I did not see but are you releaseing the code under a free license? Also, Barry and patio11 open their books to a developer audience whilst mostly selling to a developer audience. So you might not get the same uplift. Then again its worth trying, HN readers have sex too :-)

rsobers 13y ago
I totally agree: daycare is the market. The only reason I'm marketing to stay-at-home parents and nannies is because the app doesn't really have to change in order to do so, and because parents are very vocal online and can really help spread the word. I might drop the parent/home angle eventually. We'll see. Yeah, the book and the app are totally separate audiences. Not ideal, but that's how it turned out. Munchkin Report is my personal Bingo Card Creator (h/t patio11).
- lifeisstillgood 13y ago
  Good luck

jhartikainen 13y ago

I think it's going to be interesting to read about this as I'm sort of building a SaaS myself as well. Subscribed to the blog feed