- Putting up a landing page for a soon to be launched product, trying to build an email list to notify visitors when the product is ready. Should I gather just email addresses, or should I offer users to go ahead and create free accounts by easily signing up (with Google/FB)? Or should I do both?
- Failing on a technical level pre-launch. When do you decide to give up and try something else?
- Compiling a list of marketing channels in a Google Spreadsheet for startups
- Business Expenses
- Anyone tried to solve a problem that no one knew they had?
- Thoughts on "Pay to play" style investment conferences?
- Looking for some quick input !!! In the process of building a landing page for my product and am struggling to figure out how I should display my product
- Finding money while being in school
- What does everyone think of the dot co domain name?
- Help with MVP
- Funding an idea or building a prototype? Help getting started
- Mobile Notifications: Is it better to send vague descriptions (i.e "You have a new message"), or detailed (i.e "Hey man, what's up?")?
- Going for a new Dev position - should I reveal I was working on an idea similar to the company I'm applying to?
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 05:53 PM PST When you think of a "coming soon" page, you probably imagine an email field asking you to "subscribe" so that you can get notified at a later date when things are ready. Is this the best possible approach though? I'm thinking if I go with just emails, some of the initial interest may be lost later on, whereas if the prospect already has a account, they would be ready to start using the product right away. Intuitively, I expect the email-only approach to yield a bigger list, but would that be enough to offset the potential friction or disinterest at the time of the announcement? [link] [comments]  |
| Failing on a technical level pre-launch. When do you decide to give up and try something else? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 08:06 PM PST I posted here previously asking if I should launch with a service only 70-80% as good as the competition. Great advice and very motivating feedback all around. However. After evaluating it further, 70-80% was very generous. The ML is not generalizing well at all for a significant subset of the use cases outside of the training data, and it's not very useful at this point, let alone competitive. I can't launch until it's useful. I've done more research, and I'm in the process of implementing new ideas, but it doesn't look too promising. It's unlikely that the core technical concept is going to suddenly become accurate and competitive with a handful of changes. Possible, but unlikely. I picked this approach because it had the potential to be buildable by one smart person. If I have to re-architect it, I don't think I can do it alone, other approaches require too much training data and very deep ML knowledge. I've been at this for over 6 months now. I have a lot of knowledge about what doesn't work, but I have no service yet, and few remaining ideas. But ironically, I'm increasingly confident the market is there if I can get it to work. How would you decide to keep going, or to give up on an idea and try something else? I have enough money to keep trying things for another year or two if I have to. But with many people saying "build and launch an MVP in 3 months or give up" I'm wondering if I should try to restart with something new. [link] [comments]  |
| Compiling a list of marketing channels in a Google Spreadsheet for startups Posted: 04 Jan 2019 02:29 AM PST Recently I came across a marketing framework term called as KLTE which means Know, Like Trust & Engage. 1: Know - Things you do for people to know you 2: Like - Things you should do for people to like you 3: Trust - Things you should do for people to trust you 4: Engage - Things you should do for people to stay with you I think this framework is pretty useful for all internet startups and especially SaaS startups. I am preparing an exhaustive list of all channels. Would appreciate if you people can join in making this a wonderful resource. Google Spreadsheet Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VGjqTdzWdEhcLd-TnlfymH02rDqFdsd5SkM--Ey7gnI/edit#gid=0 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 02:50 PM PST Hi everyone I'm a cofounder of a new Delaware C corp startup and had questions about paying for expenses From my research I read that as founders, when we deposit money into our business checking account, we can either treat it as an investment into our "owner's equity" or as a loan to the business with an interest rate and date of return. What has been your experience with this? Any feedback and guidance would be much appreciated, thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone tried to solve a problem that no one knew they had? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 10:38 AM PST Good morning. I'm sitting here in my bed, going over some things mentally. I have an idea for a delivery startup, and it seems the problem I'm aiming to solve is non existent, or at least that's what I believe. The thing is that, it's a problem there: people who use buy/sell apps like are meeting with strangers, wasting gas and flaking, etc. I'm a frequent user of the product, so I know it's one that needs to be solved, or, at least I think so. I have been writing on a dummy site and only managed to have 2 people been interested.( In a month's time). Is it too early? Am I NOT going hard enough? Can anyone share some advice? Has there been a time when someone had an idea to solve a problem, but, the audience didn't know it was there? Or, was it not the right ' time? ' [link] [comments]  |
| Thoughts on "Pay to play" style investment conferences? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 12:44 PM PST As our startup has been raising money, we have come across more than 1 person(s) offering the opportunity to attend a conference that is attended by investors. I would be shocked to learn that we are alone in receiving these offers. They all require an upfront payment to attend, but seem to boast some fairly big names. Mainly I am wondering - is it bullshit? I have no doubt that the conferences do happen, and that paying companies do attend - but has anyone here actually gone to one of these things? And is it a viable way to raise funding? Seems like the deceptive part is that, even if you pay to go, and can rub shoulders with investors, that doesn't really make your startup any more attractive. (If your startup isn't interesting to an angel from afar, does being in the same room actually make a difference?) Hopefully someone here knows what I'm talking about. After grinding for a few months, we raised money (not a ton, but enough) on our own and never paid a dime to attend any of these conferences) however, I may consider doing so if A. we have our shit together and can present a good pitch. B. Have the money to afford the 500-1.5K price to attend. and most importantly C. They actually lead to investment Any thoughts appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2019 12:44 AM PST I've spent a lot of time crafting my products vision and building a roadmap of how I'm going to get there. I'm now in the process of building my MVP in which I've stripped 80% of the features I've come up with and am left with something that can still provide a small slice of value. I'm planning on building a landing page for my product in a month or two and was wondering how I should advertise my product. Should I capture the vision of my final product or should I just advertise the simplicity of my MVP? Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Finding money while being in school Posted: 03 Jan 2019 10:54 PM PST Hello r/startups, I am a young entrepreneur still in school (HS) in the midst of launching a clothing brand. During the summer, I setup an extremely detailed business plan, made a website from scratch, designed and ordered some products. I quit the job I had because it was interfering with my grades and health, keeping in mind that I was also working on the business at that time. Now I don't have much money. Because of my age, I feel like asking family could only work for very close relatives, and even at that I might not get much from it. I can't apply for loans and am trying to stay away from them the most I can anyways. What do you guys think I could do? [link] [comments]  |
| What does everyone think of the dot co domain name? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST I'm trying to decide between a dot co and a dot ai domain name. The dot ai domain name is 10x as expensive, and I don't really want to invest in any unnecessary expenditures. I understand the top level domain has a pretty major effect on SEO, but I'm not currently at a point where I want to release a product on a website and drive lots of traffic (I actually might never get to that point depending on which direction I decide to take things). I will however be using the email associated with my domain name to hand out business card and apply for accelerators. Would people possibly take the dot co domain name less seriously? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 11:12 AM PST Hi, I'll keep it short and simple. I have a mini plastic product idea (4.5"x1.6") that I want to manufacture and eventually sell online and offline. I'm looking to manufacture in USA over China for now. I want to make a landing page mvp to test the market and the demand on such a product before manufacturing larger quantites. CADs are ready but It will cost about $2000 for creating the mold and producing some samples, USA based. My question is, do I need to make the samples inorder to make a mvp landing page for pictures and videos, etc? Can I avoid spending the $2k and still have a good mvp? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Edit: spelling errors. [link] [comments]  |
| Funding an idea or building a prototype? Help getting started Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:34 PM PST I have a web based business I'm working on. It's an idea I love. I know frontend and am learning backend to build this site myself. Slowly. It's taking me longer than I want on my own and I would love to have help, resources, people to reach out to, to make this a more social thing in one respect, but also would love to hire people to help me build this better than I could do myself. I think it would be better in many ways to have more people involved, but don't want to burn valuable money on my own without knowing more. I'm wondering if there are resources available to fund and protect an idea before it becomes a working prototype. Like if there are resources to hire developers that could do a better job than I could as a beginner. Or is it just common to build a working version of the site and have it grow and get investments while operating? I want to explore more options as I'm working on this. I'm in San Francisco, so I'm sure there are startup resources I'm not aware of. I listen to a lot of the startup podcasts with people in the area, but I'm not sure the best places to meet people, meet developers, and talk to people with common interests. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 06:49 PM PST 2 months ago I launched a social app startup. In those 2 months we've sent out 180,000 notifications (~3,000/day). We took our inspiration for notifications from Tinder, where they do:
But I was wondering today, considering we only have 5,000 users, and we're sending 3,000 notifications a day. The user probably gets a lot of repetitive notifications, which most likely doesn't trigger them to open the app. There are 2 theories in my mind:
I'm not sure which route to go for. The one that hides the message, or the one that shows the entire message. Another problem is that the app doesn't track the # of opens, so I don't really have an effective way to test this. I'm curious about your experience with this... Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 09:27 AM PST A couple of years ago I attempted to make an app by paying another dev to do the backend stuff, while I took care the front end (all whilst working in a full-time position). Long story short, I was young, inexperienced, and the whole thing was a flop - but a good experience either way. I'm now still a Junior Developer, looking to go into my second position with a company that has a product similar but not identical to my own failed app, i.e. they're both in the same niche area. Q1 - do I reveal my experience trying to develop a similar product, or would I come across as a potential threat? Q2 - I still want to develop my own app in the next few years, when I have developed my skills further. Would there be any issues with me leaving this company after getting experience, and then trying to re-launch my own app? [link] [comments]  |
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