Ask HN: To do or not to do?

Posted by gawker on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi guys,

I recently tried to canvas that market by creating a launch page on Launch Rock. So far I have 66 pageviews and 5 people have provided their email (7.58% conversion rate).

I'm wondering if I should follow through with this project of mine, continue to collect more stats to validate my product or abandon the idea.

Thanks! Cheers!

Link: http://signup.resumati.ca

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by japhyr on Monday April 16, 2012 @11:22AM (#3847743)

Click: http://signup.resumati.ca/

That landing page shows nothing about how you plan to solve this problem. If I were going to be interested, I'd want to see something specific about how you are approaching this problem.

This could be mockup screenshots, or a list of features, but I want to know how you are approaching this problem in a unique manner.

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by hluska on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:41AM (#3847529)

I don't understand what you do, but I still think you should follow through with it. Worst case scenario, you'll fail and learn one heck of a lot. Best case scenario, it will be successful.

On the other hand, if you don't follow through, you definitely will not succeed. And, if you're really an entrepreneur, you'll spend the rest of your life asking 'what if...'.....

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by gawker on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:47AM (#3847555)

Thanks. I've just added the link to the post.

Any advice on the marketing copy?

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by tstegart on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:30AM (#3847482)

That's not much to go on. What's your business about? It could be that your idea is great but your launch page didn't do a great job exciting people.

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by gawker on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:35AM (#3847505)

It's basically a job posting/candidate organizer.. think Taleo.

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by tstegart on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:48AM (#3847559)

Ah, I can see why you might not have gotten a great response. That's something very specific that a person wouldn't really be interested in unless they're hiring or need a job. Its also something people would wait and see how it turns out before they would get excited about it. I say go for it. If you're really good it will be worth it.

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by gawker on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:58AM (#3847618)

Thanks. So far, I've had several people mention to go for it. I'm wondering if I should build out an MVP or work on creating just a marketing page with a screenshot on what the product looks like?

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by tstegart on Monday April 16, 2012 @11:35AM (#3847801)

Build out an MVP.

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by mmobile on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:58AM (#3847619)

OT: in what language are you gonna develop Resumati?

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Re:Ask HN: To do or not to do? by gawker on Monday April 16, 2012 @11:05AM (#3847664)

I was planning to go for Python with Django back-end and the usual HTML/CSS/JS front-end :)

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