I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.

Re:I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me. by iamcalledrob on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @06:14AM (#1337397)

Exactly – non-us folk (me) feel like you just don't care about their existence when you just ask for a zip code, or US phone number etc.

Bigger companies have pulled this off so many times, restricting their customers to the US for seemingly no reason, that we get irked by it now.

If there was a message saying how it's super complicated to send seeds abroad, then we'd understand and all would be well.

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Re:I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me. by erikpukinskis on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @12:21PM (#1338374)

Thanks for speaking up! The other posters are right that it's basically a time issue. I struggled with whether to even release at first in the entire U.S. or just San Diego.

I do care about non-us folk. One of the main reasons why I built the software the way I did (using weather data to calculate planting dates) is that I can theoretically extend the site to anywhere that I can get weather data for.

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