yoseph
It’s a fucking startup. Why are you here?
Re:How we validated our SaaS product without building it
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @08:03PM (#7389277)
I'm pretty sure I'm one of the "growth hacking" guys in this story.
Personally, I don't see this as an accurate description of what happened. We were seriously considering sendwithus and were looking at how to integrate their product. We talked a few times (maybe 4 times?) and definitely saw the value of what they were doing and where they were going.
We also were very transparent about the features we needed to move forward and they gave us a fair time range for when they could deliver them. Originally, we were comfortable with the timeline. Of course, you sometimes want things to be built yesterday and we happened to come across Vero which had all the requested functionality already built. That's what caused the switch.
Hope that clarifies things and honestly, I'm disappointed by the above comment. Anyone who's built something from nothing knows the hustle required and sometimes you have to risk annoying people to prove there's value in what you're doing. There are many examples of this. Here's the most recent one I've seen: HotelTonight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EER3rdWXbNk).
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Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:03PM (#6981912)
Everything's easier said than done...
I can. Here are three: Salesforce. Amazon. Google.
Re:Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:51PM (#6981859)
Their ambition isn't limited to the song meanings / annotations market. They wouldn't have raised $15m on that. Look at how they're branching out. PoetryGenius, NewsGenius, etc. They want to annotate the world's information.
That's a huge market and with RG's excellent execution so far (everyone has missteps - remember that), it warrants a $15m bet.
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Re:Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder for project with lots of work done...
on Thursday November 28, 2013 @11:06PM (#6817849)
Wow, that is an awesome landing page. Kudos.
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Re:Custom t-shirt site I've been working on the past few months.
on Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:52AM (#4622648)
Works fine for me, but it would be great to be able to adjust the line height of the text.
Re:Ask HN: I am shutting down. And starting up, again? What do you think?
on Sunday September 23, 2012 @02:22PM (#4561603)
if you have a billion dollar idea or even a million dollar idea, you shouldn't worry about "burning" contacts. You'll have plenty of other people to test with.
If people have enough of a pain point, they'll happily use a google doc. Look at Craigslist. It's god-farking-awful (worse than a google doc), but people still use it to find apartments...
Let me ask you a question. What is the number one thing you need to test to prove the viability of this idea?
Re:Ask HN: I am shutting down. And starting up, again? What do you think?
on Sunday September 23, 2012 @01:40PM (#4561480)
You didn't listen to what he said...
He said that you should test it while dedicating minimal resources. In this case, a Google Doc spreadsheet could do the trick. It's a great piece of advice.
Why spend multiple weekends working on building a prototype when you could start testing the idea's viability (virtually) straight away?
Re:Ask HN: Is the Accounting Space Crowded at the Moment?
on Saturday September 22, 2012 @11:22AM (#4558011)
Hey, I'm a product manager at Wave. Would love to learn how we can do a better job. Could you shoot me an email? yosephATwaveaccounting.com
Re:Google Acquires VirusTotal
on Friday September 07, 2012 @03:19PM (#4490708)
Is it weird that I read the title as, "Google Acquihires VirusTotal"?
edit: no disrespect to the VT team. Congrats to them!