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Re:Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to/watch? on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @10:08AM (#8042053)
Product People: Interviews with people who've build great products. Has a focus on bootstrapped businesses http://productpeople.tv/
Re:Show HN: Felt – Personal, handwritten cards mailed from your iPad on Thursday May 02, 2013 @09:59AM (#5644473)
Nice! Would also be cool to connect with Facebook for birthdays etc.
Re:How to check the viability of a startup idea on Friday February 18, 2011 @06:29AM (#2235060)
The Quora thread is great. Thanks!

How to check the viability of a startup idea

Posted by mistiaen on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:42AM
from the self-post dept.

I thought it would be cool to share with each other how to check the viability of your startup idea.To kick off, I'll share with you what I do whenever an idea pops to mind.1) Adwords keyword tool First I go to the Adwords keyword tool, to find out if people actually are looking for my idea/future product. You can check per keyword how many searches per month there have been done and if there's...

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Re:Simple social networks in less than 90 seconds (video: Fridge & Gru... on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:49PM (#2172589)
Nice video! Grumo videos are way cool :)

Show HN: our (bootstrapped) Real Time Analytics + Social Media Monitor Startup

Posted by mistiaen on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @07:37PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi HN,The two of us are working on our real time analytics service Worldlogger for two-an-a-half months now. Today we rolled out a new version. It still has some bugs here and there, but it works :) Worldlogger kind of does what Chartbeat and Getclicky are doing, but we try to mix the best from both worlds ;) Curious what you think about it!http://worldlogger.com/CheersE

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Re:Ask HN: How to sell SaaS? on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @07:31PM (#1434183)
HARO sounds good! I'll take a look into that.

Thanks for all suggestions

Re:Ask HN: How to sell SaaS? on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @07:23PM (#1434167)
Thanks! A referral program is a good idea. I forgot about how excellent that worked for dropbox
Re:Ask HN: How to sell SaaS? on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @09:42AM (#1432701)
thanks for your comments! The badge idea is a good one and account giveaways to high profile bloggers as well. I'll look into that.

Any ideas on relevant advertising? Reddit maybe?

Ask HN: How to sell SaaS?

Posted by mistiaen on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @04:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi there,Me and my co-founder built an analytics SaaS. We now need to sell it. Next to doing press releases and advertising, we want to use affiliate marketing and are busy with a white label program. Do you have other suggestions on sales/marketing? I also wonder how Campaignmonitor and Mailchimp boosted their sales. Anyone knows?Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Rate our project: Tweetz.tv, Televize your Twitter on Saturday January 30, 2010 @09:22AM (#1088663)
Hi adyitya. Thanks for the feedback. One advantage of the public stream over youtube, is that you can discover new movies and immediately retweet them to your friends. It's actually like twitter's public stream. I think the search in the public stream in Twitter is very powerful and that was our reason to implement this feature. Too bad the MyTV stream doesn't work for you yet. Hopefully this will change soon. It does indeed depend on the people you follow. Thanks for checking tweetz.tv, we're very eager to get feedback. We want to create a useful tool, with these critiques we can make it better! So what do you guys think, do you see value in the public stream?
Re:Ask HN: Rate our project: Tweetz.tv, Televize your Twitter on Saturday January 30, 2010 @08:50AM (#1088636)
Thanks for the feedback axod. That's a really good idea!