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Ask HN: This is my MVP - would you pay $10/mo for my monitoring service?
11 points by famfam 16y ago|16 comments
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Ask HN: MVP Jams?
3 points by famfam 16y ago|0 comments
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by famfam 16y ago
I have friends that game their apps into the Top 50 by buying it with 30 or so different accounts they set up. This is not in the entertainment category though. I hate marketing and I hate marketing for the iPhone more than anything. So man
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by famfam 16y ago
These kinds of posts always send me into a tailspin of jealousy. :) I've still not made enough money on the AppStore to even be paid out once. And my app went up almost a year ago!
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by famfam 16y ago
Yep. This has been a standard interview question for probably at least 15 years.
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by famfam 16y ago
Sure, Nagios, Collectd, Ganglia etc etc etc are all options. But I'm talking about something hosted, external, URL-based (so we can find user-facing problems), and most importantly simple and affordable. Something where you might be okay sp
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by famfam 16y ago
You want to keep your startup a secret but you have a newsletter sign up? Are you stealth or not?
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by famfam 16y ago
Are you using your product to test your product? :)
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by famfam 16y ago
looks deadish?
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by famfam 16y ago
1 - not sure about that. i know it's not a problem, but there may be a need. it might only target the younger end of the twitter demographic. i think the proof is in how feverishly people customized myspace, and added widgets to their FB ba
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by famfam 16y ago
I like your feedback, since I am a pessimist and can see the truth in all your criticism :) 1 - totally agreed it's a Twitter feature waiting to be vacuumed up. but it's SO easy to implement. and I know how to make it go way viral. i think?
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by famfam 16y ago
These sites look great. I love that you can get started at Genevine without signing up, I tried to do that at http://todoneapp.com too. The price point seems a bit high (consider that Flickr is what, $25 a year or so?) - but the functiona
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by famfam 16y ago
2 - yeah, I think there are multiple challenges - #1 sales cycles and custom requirements #2 how to bootstrap testers #3 the infamous problem of "no one googles your solution when they don't know the concept exists" -- do companies think "o
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by famfam 16y ago
It's beginning to stick out to me as the one thing from this list that I should make a go at.
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by famfam 16y ago
Yeah, I've been a Gomez user before and the pricing was utterly shocking, to say the least. Additionally, I think our pricing plan only even allowed tests from 10 nodes or so. I was wondering if I could write a php endpoint that acts as a t
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Ask HN: Here is my current batch of ideas. In exchange, I ask for your feedback.
26 points by famfam 16y ago|32 comments
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by famfam 16y ago
I liked it. It was much better than "Cats". I'm going to read it again and again.
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by famfam 16y ago
Can you add QR codes for linking to the original source?
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by famfam 16y ago
Thanks for talking about this. Definitely aware of the AppEngine solution, but one of the reasons I was looking for a turnkey solution was for guidance in complying with CAN-SPAM as well as having them manage opt-outs, bounces, things like
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Ask HN: Do you like Mailchimp? Alternatives?
15 points by famfam 16y ago|14 comments
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by famfam 16y ago
Nice. I wasn't aware of KISSinsights actually, just KISSmetrics (where I'm still waiting patiently for entry into their beta). Thanks! BTW: I'm glad you self-plugged because it seems like I could use HelpaStartupOut.com - maybe not for this
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by famfam 16y ago
In the first 3 days there ~1100 signups and ~3200 unsigned up people (no email address captured) who actually created todos. (You don't need to signup for our system to begin to play with it...) Active users is something I just started capt
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by famfam 16y ago
I've definitely seen the light on the homepage thanks to you guys. (BTW, the bounce rate on '/' is 50% and time on page is 2 minutes. That's actually not too bad I think. But point is still taken. The homepage looks bad even to me now.) I'm
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by famfam 16y ago
1 - yep, no brainer. Definitely thinking PhoneGap too. 2 - this is a brilliant idea. You're hired! :) Funny thing is, I had thought about injecting pseudo-todos, but they were more like funny/inspirational/zen things - like "don't worry abo
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by famfam 16y ago
Great points. I've seen the light on the homepage thanks to HN. I need to decide if I want to forego the homepage altogether, just revise it, or somehow merge it into the todo page. Copywriting is not my strong point, but I think I can edit
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by famfam 16y ago
Thanks for the perspective. I think I want to get to a point where you are. I don't harbor any delusions that this could ever be a quit-your-day-job enterprise or even a real supplemental income. I think I would really like to just get it u
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by famfam 16y ago
You're right. I'm just stupid or lazy for not doing this. Personally, I would never use the feature, but I do know that some people out there live to spam their friends. :) I really ought to be taking advantage of it. Even though I don't th
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by famfam 16y ago
If anything, this thread has made me come to realize my homepage sucks. Totally agree. I actually do find basecamp/rtm homepages kind of, uhh, spewy, but they're still far better than mine. I'm definitely going to reconsider the homepage. (
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by famfam 16y ago
Yeah - http://lifehacker.com/5515338/todone-assigns-you-tasks-based... Okay, maybe I did get lucky. All I did was email one of the editors.
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by famfam 16y ago
I think the right answer is somewhere in the middle. I've worked at several companies that catered to every voice in the crowd, and the product gets pulled in a hundred directions. I have some semblance of a vision, and some of these ideas

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