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Startups of 2014

23 points by keesj 13y ago

liamgooding 13y ago
Whoop, awesome to see Trak.io in there! Cheers Marc, good roundup. For the record, we did launch private Beta but we've had to start limiting again as we pretty much had enough, and found we weren't managing support tickets as well with more and more joining. When we launch paid plans in the new year, we'll be opening up out of Beta. But yeah, there's a very real and very functioning product behind that signup page :-)
- keesj 13y ago
  Yeah it's good practice to take your private beta slow and invite early adopters in small batches. Seeing your service is all about understanding your users, how did you decide which users to give access to the private beta first? Or was it just chronologically?
  - liamgooding 13y ago
    At first chronological for the first few hundred, and then when server bills (and SaaS monitoring, backups etc.) stopped been insignificant, we switched to: 1) only honouring the promotions we had out there 2) the paid priority access people (Paying $19, then $29, to get access) 3) people from startups who could offer us a good PR boost by association on launch
rohamg 13y ago
Awesome roundup, thanks for the shoutout :) We soft-launched ZenHub.io [1] on Betalist in early November and have been very happy with the results so far. Several hundred high quality users who are engaged, providing feedback [2], and inviting their team members. The tweet-storm whipped up by Betalist was cool too :) [1] http://www.zenhub.io http://www.zenhub.io [2] http://github.com/axiomzen/zenhub-now/issues http://github.com/axiomzen/zenhub-now/issues
normloman 13y ago
What the heck is August? http://www.agst.co/ http://www.agst.co/ I can't figure out what it is. Is it a social network? An iphone app? A subscription service? The website tells me it's where the worlds most talented artists forge relationships with their fans. But it neglects to say how this is accomplished.
- seanwing 13y ago
  The site is purely a sneak peak for artists. As for what it is, August is an iOS platform (with a very minimal web side to it) that builds sustainable relationships around media; relationships that unify and amplify the discovery, distribution, monetization, engagement, social experience, etc of digital media. How? Simply, the platform we have built, and the thousands of artists who have created it.
- Ryanmf 13y ago
  Links at the very bottom of the page reveal a launch post[0] and their deck[1]. There's definitely an app, and it's definitely a social network—though perhaps if this or something like it catches on we'll require new terminology, as this model where every user gets categorized 'artist', 'curator', 'listener', 'tastemaker', 'consumer', etc. doesn't map very well to the one-size-fits-all peer networks we're used to. As far as the sales channel is concerned, it's difficult to say. Somewhere between "we'll figure it out as we go" and "as long as we're taking down Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Soundcloud, Tumblr, G+/YouTube, Vimeo and Myspace, we might as well also go after iTunes, Ticketmaster, Goldenvoice, Behance, content licensing, booking, event management…" [0] https://medium.com/p/fe08d1925c7f https://medium.com/p/fe08d1925c7f [1] http://www.agst.co/investors/ http://www.agst.co/investors/
  - seanwing 13y ago
    Ryan, there are no specific categories of users on August. There is one user account for everyone. However, if you are invited as an artist, you receive an additional distribution channel reserved for the quality content of true artists. The view of August is that the world of media will change when an artist is able to sale 100 million copies of their work, all by themselves. This is the future, and we are building the platform that will make it happen.

Startups of 2014

23 points by keesj 13y ago

Whoop, awesome to see Trak.io in there! Cheers Marc, good roundup. For the record, we did launch private Beta but we've had to start limiting again as we pretty much had enough, and found we weren't managing support tickets as well with more and more joining. When we launch paid plans in the new year, we'll be opening up out of Beta. But yeah, there's a very real and very functioning product behind that signup page :-)

keesj 13y ago
Yeah it's good practice to take your private beta slow and invite early adopters in small batches. Seeing your service is all about understanding your users, how did you decide which users to give access to the private beta first? Or was it just chronologically?
- liamgooding 13y ago
  At first chronological for the first few hundred, and then when server bills (and SaaS monitoring, backups etc.) stopped been insignificant, we switched to: 1) only honouring the promotions we had out there 2) the paid priority access people (Paying $19, then $29, to get access) 3) people from startups who could offer us a good PR boost by association on launch

rohamg 13y ago

Awesome roundup, thanks for the shoutout :) We soft-launched ZenHub.io [1] on Betalist in early November and have been very happy with the results so far. Several hundred high quality users who are engaged, providing feedback [2], and inviting their team members. The tweet-storm whipped up by Betalist was cool too :) [1] http://www.zenhub.io http://www.zenhub.io [2] http://github.com/axiomzen/zenhub-now/issues http://github.com/axiomzen/zenhub-now/issues

normloman 13y ago

What the heck is August? http://www.agst.co/ http://www.agst.co/ I can't figure out what it is. Is it a social network? An iphone app? A subscription service? The website tells me it's where the worlds most talented artists forge relationships with their fans. But it neglects to say how this is accomplished.

seanwing 13y ago
The site is purely a sneak peak for artists. As for what it is, August is an iOS platform (with a very minimal web side to it) that builds sustainable relationships around media; relationships that unify and amplify the discovery, distribution, monetization, engagement, social experience, etc of digital media. How? Simply, the platform we have built, and the thousands of artists who have created it.
Ryanmf 13y ago
Links at the very bottom of the page reveal a launch post[0] and their deck[1]. There's definitely an app, and it's definitely a social network—though perhaps if this or something like it catches on we'll require new terminology, as this model where every user gets categorized 'artist', 'curator', 'listener', 'tastemaker', 'consumer', etc. doesn't map very well to the one-size-fits-all peer networks we're used to. As far as the sales channel is concerned, it's difficult to say. Somewhere between "we'll figure it out as we go" and "as long as we're taking down Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Soundcloud, Tumblr, G+/YouTube, Vimeo and Myspace, we might as well also go after iTunes, Ticketmaster, Goldenvoice, Behance, content licensing, booking, event management…" [0] https://medium.com/p/fe08d1925c7f https://medium.com/p/fe08d1925c7f [1] http://www.agst.co/investors/ http://www.agst.co/investors/
- seanwing 13y ago
  Ryan, there are no specific categories of users on August. There is one user account for everyone. However, if you are invited as an artist, you receive an additional distribution channel reserved for the quality content of true artists. The view of August is that the world of media will change when an artist is able to sale 100 million copies of their work, all by themselves. This is the future, and we are building the platform that will make it happen.