Re:Show HN: TakeAim – Expose your team's daily aims
by brudgers on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:51AM
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As mentioned by others, not being able to try it out without signing up is a big impediment when it comes to showing rather than telling people what TakeAim does. A sandbox so people can try it out might be a high return marketing effort.
I'm not sold on the pricing model. It is trying to compete with free rather than on value and even worse it is competing against free internally. In a business context, if it isn't delivering value worth a $500 a month rate, it really doesn't matter if it's $30 or $80 or $5. And if it is delivering value at that rate, then $500 is a good place to anchor the price.
It also sets the expectations about quality and provides the money to create it and helps filter out the wrong type of customer. By which I mean that 500 customers at $30 a month are likely to churn and generate a lot of support work in minimally productive directions. 30 customers at $500 a month will provide serious focus and better feedback for pushing the project forward.
To put it another way, TakeAim is a bit toward the feature end of the feature->product spectrum. In terms of growth that means that it can probably scale better vertically [adding more functionality and user support] than horizontally [running more instances] because the current utility is limited to brief use every day.
The development arc of TakeAim seems to be BaseCamp's origin story. That might be a good model to look at both in terms of creating an ecosystem and pricing.
I'm not sold on the pricing model. It is trying to compete with free rather than on value and even worse it is competing against free internally. In a business context, if it isn't delivering value worth a $500 a month rate, it really doesn't matter if it's $30 or $80 or $5. And if it is delivering value at that rate, then $500 is a good place to anchor the price.
It also sets the expectations about quality and provides the money to create it and helps filter out the wrong type of customer. By which I mean that 500 customers at $30 a month are likely to churn and generate a lot of support work in minimally productive directions. 30 customers at $500 a month will provide serious focus and better feedback for pushing the project forward.
To put it another way, TakeAim is a bit toward the feature end of the feature->product spectrum. In terms of growth that means that it can probably scale better vertically [adding more functionality and user support] than horizontally [running more instances] because the current utility is limited to brief use every day.
The development arc of TakeAim seems to be BaseCamp's origin story. That might be a good model to look at both in terms of creating an ecosystem and pricing.
Good luck.