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Ask HN: How do you keep track of Competitors without losing focus?

I'm working on Draftly (dot) so, a tool to help people and businesses grow on LinkedIn. Recently, I had an experience that made me think.I wan on a call with a potential customer, and during the call they asked how we compared to another tool. I had never heard of it. Turns out, this competitor launched a few months ago and was getting attention in the same space.I tried to learn about them on...

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Ask HN: Are there real benefits of getting listed on TAAFT?

I'm exploring different options to get more organic traffic to our product Draftly .so.We are already listed on most of the FREE directory listing and now I'm exploring paid directories. I came across TAAFT and found it interesting.Have you listed your AI product on it? If yes, what benefits have you got from it? Would love to hear your learnings and insights.Thanks in advance.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:11PM (#41716828)
I'm looking for a CMO/CEO to lead draftly.so, a platform designed to help users grow their LinkedIn presence with content creation, ideation, engagement, and scheduling.

It's a REMOTE position though we are based out of India and would prefer someone in a timezone with 3-4 hrs of overlap with IST (UTC +5.5) Timezone.

A few details:

- SaaS product focused on LinkedIn growth - Built for creators, businesses, and professionals who want consistent, high-quality content - Already gaining traction with a growing user base - Opportunity to shape the product and drive its future growth

You:

- Early to mid-stage in your career, but have led marketing, growth, or product teams before - Ready to take ownership and drive Draftly's success - Experienced in content marketing, SaaS growth strategies, and user acquisition - Passionate about social media, especially LinkedIn, and understand its potential for business growth - Willing to work for a performance-based salary (bonus and equity included)

If you want to join a fast-growing SaaS project and lead it to the next level, reach out to me.

Re:Ask HN: AWS CloudWatch Fraud? on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:47AM (#41512486)
Not sure about the fraud but recently we had a very heavy bill from AWS (6x of our usual AWS bill).

After much investigation I realised that one of my dev has setup complicated stuff using some Terraform config he found on Github.

I feel that AWS has very bad UX.

Re:Ask HN: What is your experience with Cursor? on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:44AM (#41512456)
It's ok. Not that great.
Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:42AM (#41512435)
I built two products out of which one is live - Draftly[1]

We tried different LLM models but always returned back to Open AI.

[1] https://draftly.so

Ask HN: Need help in pricing my SaaS product

Hi all, I've been brainstorming on having a simple pricing for my product, Draftly. And thought of picking your brain.What I have: Draftly is a tool that help users create content for LinkedIn with the help of AI. Because I use AI, I have fixed cost of creating content using the AI model.---There are three plans that I currently offer.Plan 1 - this is for people who only post on their...

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Re:Help Needed in Pricing My SaaS Product on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:09AM (#41512099)
Hi all,

I've been brainstorming on having a simple pricing for my product, Draftly. And thought of picking your brain.

What I have: Draftly is a tool that help users create content for LinkedIn with the help of AI. Because I use AI, I have fixed cost of creating content using the AI model.

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There are three plans that I currently offer.

Plan 1 - this is for people who only post on their individual account. We give 20 credits to create 20 posts / month. This is right fir for someone who publishes one post every weekday.

Plan 2 - this is for someone who posts on their individual account as well as business page. We give 50 credits to create 50 posts/month shared between their individual account and the business page.

Plan 3 - this is for someone who manages their client's business pages. Here we give 100 credits to create upto 100 posts/month across all the pages they manage.

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Problems/Issues raised by customers:

- They run out of credits but dont have business page. - 100 credits are not enough since they manage 20+ pages - They want to manage more than 1 page but unable to use 100 credits.

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What I was thinking:

- Have the first Plan only. - Charge $x for every page they add. Its a small fee. - Allow them to top-up the credits whenever they run out of it. - I'm still brainstorming and need some help/suggestion in coming up with a pricing plan that simple, easy to understand, and win-win for both them and us.

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Any help is very much appreciated. You can check out more details about it on draftly . so

Show HN: Raftwise – Leave Thoughtful Comments on LinkedIn Posts

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/raftwise/fcffekbnfcfdemeekijbbmgmkognnmkd

Hi HN!I'm excited to share my latest project: Raftwise Browser Extension (for Chromium based browsers), a tool for structuring thoughts and adding a personal touch to LinkedIn interactions. The extension is available for everyone to try for free, and I'd appreciate your feedback to make it even better.How it works: It helps structure your thoughts and adds a personal touch to your LinkedIn...

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Hey everyone,

We're launching IntroJoy (https://introjoy.com), an​​ easier way to make double opt-in intros.

We decided to build this after learning how there were people out there making hundreds to thousands of intros every year, but without an efficient tool.

IntroJoy is a simple app that uses your Gmail account to minimize the hassle of making double opt-in intros.

It's mobile-friendly, has no dependencies, supports forwardable intros, and open/click tracking.

Would love your thoughts!

Re:Ask HN: Do coding coaches exist? on Saturday December 08, 2012 @08:01AM (#4891520)
Did you try oDesk?
I guess what he is trying to do is, ask user's OS, Browser, whether Flash or any other plugin is installed or not when you are talking to customer for support. Not to gather stats.
nice one. simple but very useful when you are dealing with non-tech users.
Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011 on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @11:50PM (#3427459)
- Don't make me think. - Delivering Happiness.
Re:Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results on Saturday October 22, 2011 @11:37AM (#3143682)
It would be interesting to see how many started their own startup.
Re:Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites? on Saturday June 04, 2011 @11:19PM (#2621189)
If you are very new to the industry, you might face some difficulty initially since people are not sure if its worth paying you more when there are others who are ready to do same work at cheaper rate.

But if you have good portfolio, audience, contacts, you won't face much problem.

If somebody is cheaper, there's a reason why they are cheaper. If you are good at what you are doing, people will be happy to pay you what you are worth.

Good Luck :)

Re:Anyone Know a Good SMS Payment Gateway? on Saturday April 16, 2011 @01:56PM (#2454432)
Twilio, Msgme.com
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (April 2011) on Monday April 04, 2011 @12:03AM (#2405324)
SEEKING WORK. Remote.

Recently moved back to India from Bay Area.

HTML, CSS, Javascript Developer.

http://github.com/ashitvora http://ashitvora.com

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Re:Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much on Sunday April 03, 2011 @12:56AM (#2401856)
- Unsubscribe from all the feeds except that are very very important for you. So you have at the max 20-25 feeds to read.

- Follow only those people who's tweets are very important. Don't follow people who have a habit of tweeting very 15 mins.

- Deactivate your facebook account.

- Go to any social site only when you are going to bed. Don't spend more than 30 mins there.

I have actually deactivated my facebook account.

There's too much info on the web, there's no point in reading / listening to all that if you can't apply or digest. If something is very important, you will eventually get to know about it from somewhere.

You don't always have to be the first one to know about it.

When tired, don't try to relax by visiting blogs, twitter, facebook, youtube. Instead go out for 10 - 15 mins and get fresh air, make coffee.

It helps me alot. Might work for you. I have been thru the same phase your are going thru :)

Re:Ask HN: Startup Advice for College Students on Saturday March 19, 2011 @12:12AM (#2342947)
Just do it.

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