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Have you even identified your target market yet? It's not a bad idea, I just don't think you've gotten the other part of the startup right yet (sales and marke

Have you even identified your target market yet? It's not a bad idea, I just don't think you've gotten the other part of the startup right yet (sales and marketing). I don't mind helping you with your idea (to guide you in a sense). I've given advice to a couple others before. I think if you clearly identified your target market and then attacked them directly, you would find some success. Also, your landing page needs to become more "pretty". Even though it doesn't look that bad, it kind of has the early 2000s Java web-tool look.

MattBearman 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'm pretty typical as a programmer, little to no marketing skills. I'd really appreciate any advice you can offer. In terms of target market, I think I'm a step behind that, I'm not even sure what BugMuncher should be used for: bug reporting on live sites, team communication during development, are cross browser issues important? Should it be a fully featured issue tracker (crowded market) or should it just integrate with existing tools? I kind of feel like I'm throwing features at the wall to see what sticks :) In terms of my current user base, it's mostly people using it for bug reports on live sites, but I feel in that use case, cross browser issues are important :s I agree the website definitely needs redoing, I bought that on themeforest, gonna work with a designer to make something a lot better.
- phantom_oracle 13y ago
  Well any advice I give will be open for everyone to see (competitors included) and limited to the 2000 chars provided by HN. If you'd like to discuss things privately, use http://boun.cr http://boun.cr to hide your email and we can discuss things via email thereafter. Otherwise, as you've mentioned about your current market, it seems like the market is pushing your tool towards the live-site part of it. Maybe I should try evaluating your product also. I need to "play" with it to understand how I would interpret its use in the role of a customer.

MattBearman 13y ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'm pretty typical as a programmer, little to no marketing skills. I'd really appreciate any advice you can offer. In terms of target market, I think I'm a step behind that, I'm not even sure what BugMuncher should be used for: bug reporting on live sites, team communication during development, are cross browser issues important? Should it be a fully featured issue tracker (crowded market) or should it just integrate with existing tools? I kind of feel like I'm throwing features at the wall to see what sticks :) In terms of my current user base, it's mostly people using it for bug reports on live sites, but I feel in that use case, cross browser issues are important :s I agree the website definitely needs redoing, I bought that on themeforest, gonna work with a designer to make something a lot better.

phantom_oracle 13y ago
Well any advice I give will be open for everyone to see (competitors included) and limited to the 2000 chars provided by HN. If you'd like to discuss things privately, use http://boun.cr http://boun.cr to hide your email and we can discuss things via email thereafter. Otherwise, as you've mentioned about your current market, it seems like the market is pushing your tool towards the live-site part of it. Maybe I should try evaluating your product also. I need to "play" with it to understand how I would interpret its use in the role of a customer.