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Re:Ask HN: Is this a good format for minimum viable products? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @01:43PM (#3567818)
I purchased the following pack on graphicriver.net a few days ago:

http://graphicriver.net/item/business-man-mascot/119027?WT.a...

I'll think I'll have to run some A/B tests to see what effect the little guy and his different expressions have on visitors.

Re:Ask HN: Is this a good format for minimum viable products? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @11:09AM (#3567039)
I hadn't thought of that. Good idea!

Would you say that the following is an improvement?

http://frostchat.com/images/contact.png

Re:Ask HN: Is this a good format for minimum viable products? on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:37PM (#3564924)
Do you have some specific questions in mind that you want these leads to answer for you?

I guess what I need to figure out is how to incentivize visitors to answer my questions (or if they even need incentives in the first place).

I like this idea (even if it creates more stuff for me to test). :-D

Re:Ask HN: Is this a good format for minimum viable products? on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:31PM (#3564901)
It doesn't sound harsh at all. :-)

As I (briefly) mentioned in the original post, I'm running a few sites similar to the one I linked to, and only used FrostChat as an example.

What I'm most concerned about is if I'm effectively figuring out which product idea is the most viable using this method (adwords + crappy landing page + comparing which landing pages get the most email addresses). I wonder if zeroing in on one idea to iron out all the kinks (like the language usage issue you brought up) would yield better results.

Ask HN: Is this a good format for minimum viable products?

This past week, I've been creating sites such as http://frostchat.com and throwing AdWords campaigns at them to test a few product ideas.Looking at the landing page I just linked to, do you believe it's an effective way to gauge the public's interest in a product (combined with AdWords data), or am I ultimately just wasting my time and money?This is the first time I've done something like this,...

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