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Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:50AM
from the show-hn dept.
Hey everybody, we just released our free community, called AreYouInterested Discussions. It's nothing groundbreaking, but we wanted to create a place where you could discuss your business ideas without the worry of being down voted like crazy. Post your ideas, post updates, post about your launches, post informational content you've made, etc.Basically, post anything that you want to discuss...
Absolutely! The more value you can provide the customer the better.
Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:49PM
from the show-hn dept.
I've noticed that in the IndieHacker space, there are two distinct groups of people.Group 1: Have a million ideas, a thousand unused domains in their registrar account, and 15 projects that they're currently working on.Group 2: Have the drive to start something, but for the life of them can't find a good idea to start working on.I wanted to try and make a tool on my site that will bridge the...
Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:53PM
from the show-hn dept.
Hey guys! Today I launched the Idea Generator, a free tool that I've been working on to help people brainstorm business ideas.Honestly, I didn't mean to launch it today. It was supposed to launch on the 4th, but a family emergency happened, so I had to postpone the launch. I picked an arbitrary date in the future. Unbeknownst to me, that date was today. It was quite the surprise when I woke...
Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Friday January 01, 2021 @11:56AM
from the show-hn dept.
Hey guys. Yesterday, we released a blog post outlining the Niche-Action-Problem system for business idea brainstorming. Today, we wanted to share a completely free tool that we made to help guide you through this process and really structure your thought as you try to come up with a good business idea.Link to the free app: https://areyouinterested.coRead more about NAP:...
These are some good ideas, thanks! Eventually (read: once we have other monetization channels) we are planning on swapping the core functionality to be completely free, but in the meantime I'll give some thought to how our pricing model could be improved.
Absolutely! You can use it for whatever you want, as long as you credit it. What monetization model do you think would work better?
Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:13PM
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jamesskarzynski on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:44PM
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Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Monday October 19, 2020 @11:20AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hey guys, I've been working on building a site, areyouinterested.co, that helps people create easy landing pages to validate their ideas.I'm trying to make it as good as possible and part of this is making sure that it fits into the general validation "flows" that people use.So my question is, what process do you use to validate an idea? Do you build something first, or do you validate first?...
If anyone has any questions or would like clarification on any step, just comment here!
Posted by
jamesskarzynski on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:55AM
from the areyouinterested.co dept.
Thanks! This is actually the reason I made it. I have about 50 ideas in the back of my head and don't want to muck about making a different site / validation flow for each one.
Sure, if you can provide one!
We were actually debating between this and the way we went. We are planning on adding custom domain support in the future!
Sure, I can see that. But the application of this is such that you can expand it to include whatever sort of validation you need. When you get a list of people who imagine their future best self as being interested, you now have a list of people to whom you can more rigorously validate with. You can send them all an email asking for an interview, pre-order, etc. But regardless, this helps you build that initial list.
Thanks! This is something we're working on as we speak.
Thanks for the input! Sorry you feel that way. I don't think I'd agree with your sentiment. I think it's a bad idea to build a whole product and spend potentially months or years before even knowing if people like your product.
I'm sorry to hear about that, but it is a really funny product idea looking back on it. Glad you see the value in our product!
This is a great idea! Right now this can be accomplished fairly easily by simply making a landing page for each group that you post in. For example, one of our users has 4 pages, with the slug of each ending with -{{group}}. This way you can collect emails and get vote info based on certain groups like you said.
Thanks so much! I worked really hard on it and I was lucky to have some codebase that I could reuse from another project.
Totally agree. To add onto this, there are very few ideas that are so inherently new and valuable that simply hearing about them would cause someone else to launch into competition with you.
Thanks! The pricing page should be updated now, thanks for letting us know!
You'll need to validate at some point! We don't publicly display any of our user's ideas, so your idea can stay as private or be as public as you want. If you just want to validate with a few people, just sent it to a few people!
You're right. This is why (as they said in the article) there aren't any massive players in the market. It's viable if you have a few machines in your area that you restock as a hobby, but the minute you add in any sort of overhead, your margins will dry up immediately. Plus, the numbers in the article are actually a little high. 25% margins or less are more common, and generally a single machine will only bring a few hundred or less per month in profit.
I tried this a few years ago and I can really attest to just how awful an idea buying a used machine is. I found a decent condition one on craigslist for $100. I bought it, and it's been stuck in my garage for 2 years now.
I must have gone through $200 of parts just trying to get the bill collector to work, and it still doesn't. It would be at least a few hundred more to bring it to a place that can fix it.
If you're thinking about doing this, you need to make sure that every part of the machine works, because if you're just starting out I can guarantee that you won't be able to do the maintenance yourself.