Re:RealMetrics – Take the vanity out of your metrics
by brudgers on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:33AM
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Requiring a connection to a Stripe account just to pass beyond the landing page seems a bit risky to me because I have no idea what I'm buying or potentially buying or who I would be providing financial data to.
Customers are monetized. Potential Customers might be monetized. Potential Users cannot be monetized.
+ Because the tool was already built for your own needs, it's a sunk cost. The new cost was building the infrastructure to share it. While getting paid a lot of money immediately might be nice, in a competitive space like analytics, try before I buy, may be more appropriate.
+ If a product can take that approach, it is more likely to engage with potential users and place them in the sales pipeline.
My advice:
+ If it meets the guidelines this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
+ Before reposting as a Show HN, consider removing all the friction between potential users and the tool.
+ This means looking at the sales funnel as:
Customers are monetized. Potential Customers might be monetized. Potential Users cannot be monetized.+ Because the tool was already built for your own needs, it's a sunk cost. The new cost was building the infrastructure to share it. While getting paid a lot of money immediately might be nice, in a competitive space like analytics, try before I buy, may be more appropriate.
+ If a product can take that approach, it is more likely to engage with potential users and place them in the sales pipeline.
Good luck.