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Ask HN: Examples of sites with 'customer class' freemium?
5 points by wensing 17y ago|4 comments
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by wensing 17y ago
Create a widget with a link back to your site. Good for referrals and pagerank.
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by wensing 17y ago
Why is there only one monolithic video clip which can't be scrubbed to skip ahead or go backwards? http://www.justin.tv/clip/2493eb6f993f6e24 And why is it only 2 hours long? Is there any place to watch the entirety of the day's talks?
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Startup success factors(blog.novaurora.com)
3 points by wensing 17y ago|0 comments
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by wensing 17y ago
Why didn't newspapers create Four Square or Yext or Craigslist or ____. Comfort with the status quo and a lack of vision, perhaps?
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by wensing 17y ago
When he said 'turn into', I think he's asking why Geocities didn't evolve from 'static content to an anonymous audience' into 'dynamic content tailored to each individual users'. Geocities (Yahoo!), AOL, Xerox--the head of a long list of co
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by wensing 17y ago
I think their main features were 'it's easy to use and pretty and it works well'. They cared a lot about those.
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by wensing 17y ago
Just to be clear--with customer development, you don't ask customers for your vision. That's still the founders responsibility. So yes, I think @ev and @jack would have still written code. They would have then asked people (not laggards,
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by wensing 17y ago
Unless you're re-segmenting the existing market.
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by wensing 17y ago
60 seconds? The interview is 30 minutes.
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by wensing 17y ago
Out of curiosity, would you rather pay to watch?
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by wensing 17y ago
This makes us at Stormpulse really happy, since our map is written in ActionScript, and people have been screaming for an iPhone app.
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by wensing 17y ago
Rambly while still communicating: + the problem + market size + distribution + salient features I'll take this 2 minutes over most of the TC50 demos.
554.
by wensing 17y ago
But you're already talking about two very fine guns. Just because you have to consider trade-offs at that level doesn't mean there's no qualitative scale at all, does it?
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by wensing 17y ago
In that light (which I think is great), your competitors might not even be web-based!
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by wensing 17y ago
Might not be good for the VC either, and some are smart enough to realize it. Google was VC funded but believes strongly in Data Liberation, AFAIK.
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by wensing 17y ago
Staying on that subject of UI, why hasn't the iPhone UI been successfully copied? Jason Fried has said that "the copier doesn't know why the original looks the way it looks.", therefore superficial imitation is insufficient.
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by wensing 17y ago
The people using our service, of course. But that's not really my question. I'm wanting to know what people pitch as their competitive advantage.
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Ask HN: What's your startup's competitive advantage?
10 points by wensing 17y ago|10 comments
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by wensing 17y ago
Completely agree. What I would give for 5 minutes of questions from PG about our startup! Maybe that's something he could auction off for charity? Bidding on office hours!
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by wensing 17y ago
That's really fascinating--thanks for elaborating. That said, this isn't, for me, a strong refutation of design. Perhaps the designer's purpose was to create creatures with imperfections such as these, with the higher purpose of communicat
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by wensing 17y ago
Sean Ellis has said that a startup has achieved product/market fit when >40% of its visitors would be 'very disappointed' if the product were no longer available. http://startup-marketing.com/the-startup-pyramid/
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by wensing 17y ago
We are freemium--so if you care that much, you can pay. We also get a large volume of traffic, so it doesn't make much sense not to monetize it. By the way, the eyeQ ad is a direct sale to someone that cares a lot about severe weather. I a
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by wensing 17y ago
We began the program in 2007, halted it in 2008 (lots of traffic meant read-only), but will begin it again in 2010: http://stormpulse.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/human-consensus-h...
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by wensing 17y ago
Excellent. Thank you.
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by wensing 17y ago
Dave hammers the 'tell me the problem' side. Does this pitch do that? EDIT: patio's rewrite seems to nail the problem side pretty hard.
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by wensing 17y ago
The problem with the each month aspect is that we have obviously had months that were extremely busy and others that were quite tame. Is that intellectually dishonest then, or not?
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by wensing 17y ago
Yes, thank you.
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Ask HN: Review our elevator pitch (Stormpulse)
33 points by wensing 17y ago|24 comments
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by wensing 17y ago
The human eye, for example, has flaws (that are solved in other similarly evolved eyes) that an engineer laughs at What are those flaws, if you happen to know? I'm curious.

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