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by standrews 12y ago
Indeed, need to update that theme.. Glad the reader view is there.
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by standrews 12y ago
great idea :)
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by standrews 12y ago
I was able to get hold of my hosting provider (virtuaal.com) and upgrade to their biggest package in about 15 mins.
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What happens traffic wise when a post hits #1 on Hacker News? Here are my stats(purde.net)
28 points by standrews 12y ago|7 comments
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by standrews 12y ago
Word.
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by standrews 12y ago
Glad to hear that you're a user, love the product and liked the post :)
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by standrews 12y ago
I don't know the Everpix story well, so I'd rather not comment.
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by standrews 12y ago
One thing in addition to the product? The hustle in the beginning to get the product in the hands of the right people. Appsumo was part of it, but not a very big part of it compared to hundreds of hours that founders spent in pitching and &
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by standrews 12y ago
Lovely comment. Thank you :)
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by standrews 12y ago
AppSumo promotion definitely played a role, but if I had to pick just 1 thing behind getting to 10k customers, this wouldn't be AppSumo. Furthermore, this wouldn't be any one thing.
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by standrews 12y ago
I've been on the failing side as well, both with Pipedrive marketing activities (at least 1 mentioned in the post too) and my own startup. With the latter I had "luck" in getting decent press and some influential users, but i
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by standrews 12y ago
The aim was to share what has worked for Pipedrive. Of course, I hoped to show myself and Pipedrive in good light in the process - sorry if the balance wasn't right for you there.
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by standrews 12y ago
If I could pick just one of the three - great product, luck and marketing - I'd say great product trumps luck. Because without a product all that luck can get you is a winning lottery ticket. And hustling and marketing increases the pr
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by standrews 12y ago
Very valid point and I agree. Tried to tame the inner professor on this one but guess I wasn't 100% successful.
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by standrews 12y ago
Sorry that you had a crappy reading experience Brian! This is my personal blog where I don't write that often. As it's a labor of love kind of thing, I haven't updated the theme for too long. Will add to my to do list.
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by standrews 12y ago
Good point. That said, in the first 3 years of Pipedrive it too had the good old "3 plan" model. There was no dramatic change in traction after flicking the switch.
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by standrews 12y ago
Hey, thank you for chiming in. I'm not sure how you got the impression that I insisted we "don't do any marketing." - sorry if I wasn't clear. What I aimed to say was that product was the main reason for getting to
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How Pipedrive went from 0 to 10,000 paying customers in SaaS(purde.net)
212 points by standrews 12y ago|62 comments
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Startup declares product 'complete'(blog.pipedrive.com)
1 points by standrews 13y ago|0 comments
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How to create the perfect tell-a-friend page(recoworks.com)
1 points by standrews 13y ago|0 comments
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by standrews 13y ago
See your point on the title, could have worded it differently indeed. But it was more than front-end code and icons, they had copied the workflow and user experience we had been working on for more than a year, so it was not just a catchy h
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by standrews 13y ago
... and even the #3 didn't end up as bad as it first looked.
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by standrews 13y ago
#2 position here was a bit of a surprise, but site looks to be accessible for most.
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What to do when someone steals your startup idea - case study(blog.pipedrive.com)
44 points by standrews 13y ago|27 comments