Show HN: Launch your own dollarshaveclub in 7 days
jointhebox.com
jointhebox.com
While the model as a whole is valid, the way it has been glommed onto by the folks selling shovels to gold miners definitely makes it feel reminiscent of other big fads that have hit the "internet marketing/entrepreneur" circles which are filled with people looking for "get rich quick" schemes.
Not knocking a service business that is doing template design, but can't shake the feeling that the only ones making money are the ones selling the services to the box sellers.
Few feedback points.
1. The examples are too small, I would expect to see a bigger image on click.
2. It's really unclear what's the level of control I get for my website if I but it from you. Do you host it? Do I? Can I change the code?
3. You go out of business tomorrow (god forbid), is my business dead because of that?
Some of these questions are critical for me as someone who's looking into doing something like that.
I would make the homepage answer some of these.
Good luck with your business, Kudos for jumping in!
You say you don't host it. This means I get the full source code open and ready for me to make changes? (not only image changes, I can change the code to do anything I want basically)
You don't talk about the credit card processing, about the client processing.
There are a lot of questions that are left open.
I am a potential customer, my wife and I have been planning something like this for a few months now, the price is right but there are a lot of questions your site just leaves open.
This is bad for you in terms of conversion from hit to client, I would suggest you fix those.