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Online portfolio site. Help me find out what market would use it the most

1 points by LillieRanney 13y ago

johnmurch 13y ago
I would imagine you have a few groups: 1) mid-large companies - 1000+ employees. Most of them use a wiki-like platform for storing knowledge transfer. I would take the 37signals approach and price it within a range that can be put on a credit card and NOT have procurement process. Most turn around for people may be 2 or 3 years so storing all that insights or "for a new project/website" that may have launched 2) Companies that hire interns - I know when I worked for a small startup they had a intern program every summer. They would get all this data and information and want to store and be able to easily access it. Look at universities who have a jobboard/intern board and find the companies who fill that and market towards them Just some thoughts :) good luck
- LillieRanney 13y ago
  That's such a good idea! Do you think companies would want to take the time to re-upload all their data to a site like mine, when they may have it somewhere else, though it may be less easily accessible or difficult to use. Asking because we of course think it'd be a cool thing, because it's free, but because it's easy to use, but we wanted another perspective. Thank you!
  - johnmurch 13y ago
    Do the pain work for the company. Either build a "import" script from the most common knowledge repos (mediawiki, [confluence|https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence] https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence]). Worst case I wonder if you could hire interns and do it for them for a "fee" - e.g. $5000 one-time import fee or base it off the # of pages,etc. I think for any company the problem exists in 2 places: 1) Ticketing System (think jira) (Things that got done, need to get done and wishful thinking that may never get done). Almost all projects have a phase 2 but most of them never happen, so this data is important but most likely gets lost in tickets 2) Process - When you have to do a deployment, there are a ton of checklist items you have to do. The specific order and all the various use-cases that you may or may not have to do a specific change varies. Storing this information is invaluable and needs to be part of the process and knowledge base I haven't used your system or know what you are thinking, but I feel that providing tools that make both developer and product managers life easier and WANT to use (print friendly, responsive design/etc) is what you want to build. Just some more thoughts :)
    - LillieRanney 13y ago
      I never actually thought of charging for uploading that type of info, and what I mean is, I never figured people would think that was valuable. That wasn't a route we thought of taking. Such a good idea. Do you have any more thoughts? Yours have been the most helpful since? Also if it's easier, my email is lr371308@ohio.edu Thank you so much, these are great to read!
    - LillieRanney 13y ago
      Actually, in your opinion, do you think going from college to college would be a good route, seeing as it's a portfolio site? Have them start early in their freshman year, and begin to accumulate their work through their "career" so they have it when they are prospecting for jobs in their senior year. Or, in between for internships? Was also thinking this would be a good site to begin to accumulate work in general for a business professional. Just having them get into the habit of uploading work (keep it private if they want), so that they have it for their next career move. As you can see, there are a lot of different routes we can go, just am trying to envision which is the fastest to growth. I'd assume college students are the easiest, as they are tech savvy and are always trying to find jobs/internships/accumulating class work through their college years. Just curious for your opinion. Thank you!

1 points by LillieRanney 13y ago

I would imagine you have a few groups: 1) mid-large companies - 1000+ employees. Most of them use a wiki-like platform for storing knowledge transfer. I would take the 37signals approach and price it within a range that can be put on a credit card and NOT have procurement process. Most turn around for people may be 2 or 3 years so storing all that insights or "for a new project/website" that may have launched 2) Companies that hire interns - I know when I worked for a small startup they had a intern program every summer. They would get all this data and information and want to store and be able to easily access it. Look at universities who have a jobboard/intern board and find the companies who fill that and market towards them Just some thoughts :) good luck

LillieRanney 13y ago
That's such a good idea! Do you think companies would want to take the time to re-upload all their data to a site like mine, when they may have it somewhere else, though it may be less easily accessible or difficult to use. Asking because we of course think it'd be a cool thing, because it's free, but because it's easy to use, but we wanted another perspective. Thank you!
- johnmurch 13y ago
  Do the pain work for the company. Either build a "import" script from the most common knowledge repos (mediawiki, [confluence|https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence] https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence]). Worst case I wonder if you could hire interns and do it for them for a "fee" - e.g. $5000 one-time import fee or base it off the # of pages,etc. I think for any company the problem exists in 2 places: 1) Ticketing System (think jira) (Things that got done, need to get done and wishful thinking that may never get done). Almost all projects have a phase 2 but most of them never happen, so this data is important but most likely gets lost in tickets 2) Process - When you have to do a deployment, there are a ton of checklist items you have to do. The specific order and all the various use-cases that you may or may not have to do a specific change varies. Storing this information is invaluable and needs to be part of the process and knowledge base I haven't used your system or know what you are thinking, but I feel that providing tools that make both developer and product managers life easier and WANT to use (print friendly, responsive design/etc) is what you want to build. Just some more thoughts :)
  - LillieRanney 13y ago
    I never actually thought of charging for uploading that type of info, and what I mean is, I never figured people would think that was valuable. That wasn't a route we thought of taking. Such a good idea. Do you have any more thoughts? Yours have been the most helpful since? Also if it's easier, my email is lr371308@ohio.edu Thank you so much, these are great to read!
  - LillieRanney 13y ago
    Actually, in your opinion, do you think going from college to college would be a good route, seeing as it's a portfolio site? Have them start early in their freshman year, and begin to accumulate their work through their "career" so they have it when they are prospecting for jobs in their senior year. Or, in between for internships? Was also thinking this would be a good site to begin to accumulate work in general for a business professional. Just having them get into the habit of uploading work (keep it private if they want), so that they have it for their next career move. As you can see, there are a lot of different routes we can go, just am trying to envision which is the fastest to growth. I'd assume college students are the easiest, as they are tech savvy and are always trying to find jobs/internships/accumulating class work through their college years. Just curious for your opinion. Thank you!