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Re:Show HN: I made a cloud security product that actually sa... by david_obrien on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:40AM (#30539696)
Thanks for that detailed response. ARGOS definitely feels more like an Enterprise / larger SMB product, unfortunately, I think this is mostly due to where people are really feeling "the need" for cloud security. I had many conversations with smaller organisations / startups and most of them said that they could not spend money on something like cloud security (AV and Firewall was #1 spend in those conversations, very interesting) or sometimes even didn't believe that cloud security was a problem ("doesn't Microsoft/Amazon take care of this for me?").

So, as much as I'd like to help smaller organisations, it seems only at a certain size do people really recognise this as a problem.

What do you think? Also, what made the site "targeted at Enterprise" in your opinion?

Also, yes, ARGOS is, for now, only public cloud, no private cloud.

Thanks again.

Re:Show HN: I made a cloud security product that actually sa... by egberts1 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:15AM (#30540529)
What made me think it was for enterprise was as the few other commentators have said: pricing, wordings, and …

lack of the superficial First wave demo. This is the thorny issue that nearly plagues every marketing/sales.

Assuming that my own restrictive criteria were cast aside, I would be even more intrigue by some example eyeball-catching (and perhaps semi-interactive) faux outputs. For me, this would prompt me to contact you for more details of which i expect a set of authentication info for me to visit and look around as well as take a call for some Q and As.

Again, this last step is the fishing lure that enables those who are severely time-constraint to make that “last judgement” to bite that marketers and sales ever so want to cast … and snag.

However, enterprise folks may have more time on their hand (as opposed to SMB-like folks) and may make that push to elicit for a more personal feedback … without that semi-interactive demo.

Of course, the real danger to any demo is the lack of differentiation from what they already may have could translate to lost sales opportunity.

Re:Show HN: I made a cloud security product that actually sa... by david_obrien on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:18PM (#30546355)
Thanks for the further details.

Did you see the short video on the first page? It's a bit further down and might need to be pulled up. We have two other videos under "Resources/Videos" as well.

I am currently working on a "longer demo video" that shows ARGOS's full potential and differentiation.

Re:Show HN: I made a cloud security product that actually sa... by egberts1 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:38PM (#30549043)
During my initial and only viewing of the landing page (save for FAQ and Features), no, I did not see a video.

Will visit again.