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by liamgooding 12y ago
Thankyou!
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by liamgooding 12y ago
We do charge now. Everyone who was in the private Beta sees a "nagware" popup explaining our switch to a paid service, with options to also "Skip" and continue evaluating the product, or to email us to explain why they n
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Original author here. Yeah but the subtle wording in that CTA is "Try". We have a totally free, no credit card required, 30 day free trial :-) Something which I probably need to point out in my original article, my bad
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Yes we offered a free Beta, but as we discussed in this article we intended to make the product 'Freemium' but realised we were going into the trap of 'Free'. As a young and early stage team, we made some assumptions, an
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Hi, original author here. Actually yes, all the beta users who are engaging in conversation with us over this are actually been offered free plans where it's appropriate anyway. i.e. open source projects, developers writing plugins, un
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Hey, original author here. Haha Thanks for the point of view - yeah it's a big splash but there was no hiding the fact so we just wanted to be totally transparent about it. So far the replies from all our beta users has been exactly wh
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Thanks! I did a full write up (with data correct at that time) as a guest post on Sixteen Ventures blog: http://sixteenventures.com/pre-launch-growth-hacking TLDR: here's the slideshare version, much shorter: http:&#x
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Interesting point on Github! In their case, it's like "Free for when you'r working on your own personal passion stuff, but it's paid when you go into the office and hack on your companies private code". The huge com
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Does a unicorn lose it's rainbow if I just go ahead and edit the original article? Never too sure once something has been discussed whether it's cool to revise the original source...
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Noted, yeah was a bit 'keyboard warrior' on my part actually. No offense intended. But yeah I didn't want to have a "meta" discussion and miss the point of the article
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by liamgooding 12y ago
+1
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by liamgooding 12y ago
hehe you won the internet for spotting that! :D I originally found the free audio on a royalty free site. The video is very outdated now compared to the product, but at the time all we had were photoshop mockups of the UI and a vision! :D A
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Hey Seth, original author here. Thanks for the deeper explanation into the history or Urchin, and also, that when it was a paid product you were still happy to recommend it. Thats exactly what we're hoping to get at Trak.io - yeah it&#
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by liamgooding 12y ago
Hey Gabemart, original author here. I understand your objection. The term 'freeloader' was used because they're taking stuff for free with no expectation to pay anything in the future. Also, an article that attracts discussio
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by liamgooding 13y ago
This looks slick - anyone know what the pricing will be??
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Agree with this on many levels, however: * Right now (as with many startups) we don't have the bandwidth to take out a 30 minute gap to speak with an interested customer - even if we wanted to! We just physically don't have enough
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Unless someone is being paid over or under what they're worth, this isn't a problem. If they are being paid under, then now is the right time for them to leave to an employer who rewards employees fairly. If you're been paid
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Another perspective is go 51/49 (CEO 51, CTO 49) just so that later down the line you can resolve any "deadlocks". With 3 founders you'll never have this occur, but with 2 cofounders you will. Remember you'll make a
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by liamgooding 13y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing how Front stacks up when ready! :D Email clients seems to be a strange place where you can get acquired before you even launch... so maybe we'll never see a public product if you innovate too much!
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by liamgooding 13y ago
I'd recommend a name change, very confusing...
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by liamgooding 13y ago
The concierge approach is always overlooked by tech guys, "We need to build a better wizard, the design of the wizard isn't good, we need to optimize the email onboarding, we need one of those tooltip walkthroughs on first sign-in
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Sucks to be Jason Calacanis right now, who JUST launch "Inside" app that basically tries to do this - http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/27/inside-mobile-news-launch/
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Startup Culture: Innovation and People(blog.trak.io)
1 points by liamgooding 13y ago|0 comments
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Most guys used to say don't bother making a paysite (same applies for camsites) until you can drive 10,000 a day to it from your own network. Paid seeding traffic is just too expensive. So general roadmap was usually build up a network
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Was easy money around 2002-2004. You'd get like 200:1 conversion of an OK paysite with either a 35% lifetime revshare of sometimes random promotions (usually to kickstart a new site) would offer $250 upfront PPS. Niche sites (gay, extr
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Awesome I'm glad you're making OK money for this. Bought it and thought it was fun to have a laugh at myself for a bit and the stereotypes in the industry. Went through a phase of constantly crashing though but seems OK now
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by liamgooding 13y ago
I think this stems back to the fact that those with a failed startup, lost investors hundreds if not millions of pounds. As a culture I think we're FAR more risk averse. So someone standing and saying "Yeah, I lost some a bunch of
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by liamgooding 13y ago
Thanks! Gumroad's embed is a pretty cool feature
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Hacking Pre-Launch Revenue: Why We Charged $29 To Access Our Private Beta(slideshare.net)
2 points by liamgooding 13y ago|2 comments
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by liamgooding 13y ago
BTW sponsoring hackathons IS a good way to get awareness among developers for hiring, worked in the past and plan to do more in 2014 :-) Experiment, experiment, experiment

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