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Re:Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @12:50AM (#4416089)
It varies greatly, but most stay for at least 3 months, empirically.
Re:Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @12:49AM (#4416087)
Certainly, and growing too.
Re:Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @12:49AM (#4416086)
Because that's not in our interest long term. If we charge upfront a large amount (and inevitable disincentivize ourselves from providing great support and upgrade to them thereafter -- which are crucial since it's an "extremely difficult" business), we will get negative word of mouth that will not be great for our sales and marketing.
Re:Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @06:27AM (#4380183)
We are a daily deal platform. We host Groupon clones: http://www.zuupy.com.
Re:Ask HN: What are some of the key metrics to track after launch?
on Thursday June 28, 2012 @04:36AM (#4170793)
Traffic, conversion, revenue, margins.
Re:Let's get a little louder
on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @04:55AM (#4067953)
He must have been ugly.
Re:How do you learn Chinese online?
on Thursday May 24, 2012 @10:17AM (#4018511)
English-Chinese dictionary: http://www.chinese-tools.com
Chinese idiom dictionary: http://www.zdic.net/
Chinese character stroke order dictionary: http://www.visualmandarin.com/tools/chinese-stroke-order/
Traditional to Simplified Chinese translator: http://www.vifo.com.cn/fanti/
Chinese pinyin romanizer: http://translate.google.com
Re:Ask HN: Which startups have nice/normal hours?
on Friday April 20, 2012 @03:41AM (#3866890)
Is it just me, or is 40 hours a week possibly too long, even when you're running a startup?
How Your Willpower is Depleted
Re:Ask HN: Who wants some free ideas to advertise their startup?
on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @08:20AM (#3765811)
Hey Chris, I sent you an email. Thanks, you're doing us a good service.
Re:What keeps you going?
on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @05:16AM (#3765352)
Paying customers. Alternatively, active users. Any form of positive market reaction to what I'm building keeps me going.
Re:Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:18AM (#3756501)
Can you tell me how many hours, minutes, and seconds there are left in the timer on this page? Can you also tell me your timezone? Thanks!
Ask HN: Do you think that Tim Ferriss is a good influence?
In 4 Hour Work Week, he advocates several things, including ruthless fat-cutting, deliberately-short working hours, outsourcing, trying to automate email, false time constraints, etc.Do you think a bootstrapping entrepreneur would be better off applying his advice or not applying it?
Re:Ask HN: I'm an Army of One Man; what title do I use within my company?
on Thursday February 16, 2012 @03:03AM (#3597823)
Director, Managing Director, or General Manager.
Re:Ask HN: Why do you contribute to open source?
on Thursday February 09, 2012 @07:08AM (#3570765)
I don't.
Re:Ask HN: Feedback on my valentine's day promo page?
on Thursday February 02, 2012 @04:09AM (#3542027)
Low hanging fruits: 1) Get some pink in there, 2) less text, 3) orange/red and bigger Add to Cart buttons.
Re:Ask HN: What was your first ramen profitable app?
on Monday January 09, 2012 @08:13AM (#3442361)
Mine is http://www.zuupy.com, an SaaS daily deal platform.
Why I Will Not be Setting New Year’s Resolutions for 2012
Ask HN: Is December supposed to be a good sales month?
Our sales and traffic have been slow in December so far (and I can only imagine that they will get worse), but we cannot trace it to any particular factor, other than December is the holiday season, and B2B SaaS products like ours don't get bought when people are thinking about vacations and family time.Anyone has any input on this matter? Or should we be worried?
Re:Ask HN: What is a good conversion rate for a landing page?
on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @06:36AM (#3351469)
Our conversion rate for http://www.zuupy.com is around 4%. Out of that 4%, 10% will eventually upgrade to a paid plan, which costs minimum $29.95/mo. So you can say that our conversion rate is 4% or 0.4%, depending what you mean by "conversion".
Re:Ask HN: Are we lacking simplicity cause everyone wants to do it all?
on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @12:58AM (#3350831)
In general, more features are better. What is needed is user interface that organizes the assortment of features in an intuitive and user-friendly way.
Re:Ask HN: How long did it take to get your first customer?
on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @12:06AM (#3350700)
From pivot or from first iteration? If the former, a couple of weeks. If the latter, 5 months.
Re:Ask: What goal are your working towards?
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @11:23PM (#3332546)
1) Make US$10,000/mo of subscription payments from my ramen-profitable SaaS startup by the end of next year, and 2) meet a lot of women.
Re:I Just Made My First Sale Woooooooooh
on Friday November 25, 2011 @07:17AM (#3276905)
PayPal IPN solves this by returning the transaction data to whatever IPN URL that you specify. You can then verify that the correct amount was paid.
Re:I Just Made My First Sale Woooooooooh
on Friday November 25, 2011 @07:11AM (#3276897)
Despite what others say, getting people to pay you money is an achievement in itself. Keep improving the product using feedback you get from new visitors/users!
Re:Ask HN | How to answer customer queries
on Friday November 25, 2011 @12:00AM (#3276264)
Facebook has the benefit of showing that you are the type of company that engages with its customers and users. It is also scalable in the sense that you can answer a question once and many people can read it. Email is quick, and most people are comfortable with using email.
Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
I know the easy answer to my question is "just take a rest and don't think about it," but how would you really know? Do you have a personal acid test to know if you're really tired or just plain undisciplined?
Re:Offer HN: Free Web/UI Design
on Friday November 18, 2011 @03:36AM (#3251094)
Hello Ashraful, I have dropped you a line. Hope to hear from you soon! (though I'm not sure why you're doing this for free)
Re:Ask HN: Cofounder doubt - can it ever work out?
on Friday November 18, 2011 @03:30AM (#3251078)
I think Max Levchin once said something like "If there's doubt about your co-founder, there's no doubt." Meaning that the moment you have doubts about your co-founder, you should break it off and cut your losses. Hope this provides some perspective.