The depressing reality of your startup failing

Re:The depressing reality of your startup failing by cynusx on Sunday May 06, 2012 @01:45PM (#3935697)

The value proposition of the site when you visit rankique.com is not clear enough. Changing the headline to "Track products and get notified when the price drops" and making the headline bigger will help a bit.

Driving traffic to the site may be harder. There is no built-in customer acquisition channel as having one user does not lead to more exposure. It might be something that gets some word of mouth once it has made a user happy but that's something you should test.

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Re:The depressing reality of your startup failing by tolmasky on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:00PM (#3935743)

I have to agree that if the headline was "get notified when a price drops" I might consider signing up, or at least be intrigued to learn more. However, "save money and time, while shopping online"... sure it rhymes but its a vague value-proposition that's being offered by a thousand other sites right now. It could be anything from a store aggregator to another etsy.

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Re:The depressing reality of your startup failing by ComNik on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:14PM (#3935796)

Changing it right now, absolutely makes sense.

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