Subscription Based Crowdfunding for SaaS

saascriber.io

4 points·beeker87··5 comments

Hold on. Why does the “continue to website” after you’ve entered your email address go to maildb.io?

“MailDB is a new and easy way to find the email address of anyone on the web with just a domain name.”

Is this just some sort of lead scraping vapourware to get people to submit their contact details to maildb?

I'm sorry, this is a mistake!

I'm using MailChimp for building the email list, and I'm using the same MailChimp account as I do for my main SaaS, MailDB (https://maildb.io).

This is completely separate and has nothing to do with that site - I thought the settings were different for this specific list.

I'll double check now, thank you! And no worries, you will never be emailed regarding that site - this list is only for SaaScriber and this idea alone.

Edit: fixed, thank you again!

The investors page kills your credibility both with developers and with investors.

If this product does anything of value, it needs to proove it by using subscription based crowdfunding itself.

The way I was looking at it, this is something we want to form a real team around and build in 4-6 months time.

While we could try to leverage our own idea, without having this site known and heavily trafficked, the subscriptions will be minuscule and probably not enough to achieve our goals - look at early Kickstarter. An influx of cash would help get the word out.

Plus, we're hoping to work with SaaS companies who sign up and see which products/ideas want to launch with us.

I do see your point though. Maybe this is something where it needs to start small, using the idea itself as proof.

It would let you better test the pain points for this approach by dogfooding the process yourself.

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