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Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by Hexstream on Friday May 14, 2010 @12:55PM (#1347807)
"Prior to the appointment, we’ll automatically remind your customer of the date and time of their appointment."

"we"? Aren't you alone in this venture?... Or it's just a "professionalness" thing? I'm kind of torn between "I" and "we" for projects completely made by just one guy...

Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by patio11 on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:00PM (#1347826)
I've always done business communications in the plural, because it sounds better to my ear and I think three seconds worrying about this issue is two seconds too many. (It was a frequent, frequent bone of contention on the Business of Software forums a few years ago.)

Note that I already had three freelancers working on this, so it is literally accurate, if you're feeling dissatisfied by that explanation.

Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by bvi on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:13PM (#1347875)
Where did you get those freelancers from, if you care to divulge?
Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by patio11 on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:22PM (#1347906)
Pre-existing relationships plus http://www.fiverr.com . I think almost everybody could get an idea for something business-related they could do with $5 on that site. Sure, why not have your own rap jingle.
Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by michaelfairley on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:01PM (#1347830)
Do you really expect businesses to buy software from "just one guy"? I's would make it feel a little too personal in my opinion. And to some extent, there is more than just Patrick involved in this: Twilio makes the calls, not Patrick.

Patrick, ever A/B tested the I/we thing?

Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by Hexstream on Friday May 14, 2010 @02:19PM (#1348093)
Well, if you are indeed 100% alone in providing a service, I feel it's a bit of a misrepresentation to say "we" just because you want businesses as customers. But that's just a feeling.
Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by detst on Friday May 14, 2010 @04:54PM (#1348571)
He responded to you to explain this. He certainly isn't alone and even if he were, there's nothing wrong with this. People expect "we" from businesses. This is a business.
Re: Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder by mmelin on Friday May 14, 2010 @12:57PM (#1347816)
Saying "I'll remind your customer" sounds like it's one guy in a basement calling out manually. Whenever you're talking about an automatic service I think it's fine to say "we", because if you think about the system as a person you're always at least two people :-)