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How do I get people to sign up for our beta?

5 pointsponeppo15 comments

Twitter is noisy, but people stick with it because of the value we get. We have a new service that vastly improves the signal-to-noise ratio. With our service, users are required to tag posts, they can also follow topics - not sources, and we have a unique tagging engine that lets you do several things, like follow compound tags. With these features, our users can get more value than from Twitter, but with much less noise. There are many other benefits, such as getting interesting content from sources you've never heard of before.

We're launching our beta later this month and we need users to test our service, but I'm not sure how to drive traffic and get people to sign up for the beta

In addition to driving traffic, I'd like to get feedback about the concept.

The website is http://www.poundwire.com

To learn more about our product, you can check out my startupli.st interview here: http://bit.ly/h2Odh8

Any feedback you have is greatly appreciated: poneppo [at] poundwire.com

Right there with you: we're definitely getting sign-ups for our startup too (www.venturocket.com), but I would prefer a faster pace.

If I may sort of hijack your post and summarize your question: how do you get people to sign-up for something about which they know nothing other than what the splash page is marketing?

Thanks to both of you! :) You both have really great landing pages. I esp like LifeLitUp, really awesome bg img. I've signed up and Liked both.

As for further info on Venturocket, there isn't anything to read about us yet as we've been keeping totally silent until recently. But here's the "10-second teaser" version of Venturocket:

We solve the universal problem of padded resumés and hyperbolic cover letters by getting people to put their money where their mouth is: to actually be exactly what they say they are, producing perfect and instantaneous match results between opportunity providers and opportunity seekers such as employers and job seekers, entrepreneurs and co-founders, and startups and investors.

Our beta will be ready soon.

I signed up. Where can I find more information about your startup?

I already signed up. :-)

Ditto, that very question came up earlier today. We just posted our splash page (http://AllMyBiz.com) - any advice or feedback would be appreciated.

I really like your landing page, so I gave it a Like, and put in my email address.

If it makes you feel better, I'm in the same boat (minus the informative interview you had).

I upvoted you, I want some answers too. :)

What's your site? I'll check it out. That's at least 1 more for you ;)

http://www.lifelitup.com

My startup is achievements, like Steam, but for real-life. A bit of a twist on Tourism.

I'm a New Zealander, so I'll be adding -lots- of NZ stuff (attractions, scenery, walks etc). It doesn't stop with NZ, we've currently got a heap of English and Canadian goals, too.

Give away something, anything for free in exchange for signing up.

Try what hipster did - http://sanfrancisco.usehipster.com/

I like it, but we don't have any money or anything to give away beyond the promise of a useful service...

How about high-fives, hugs, or handshakes?

How about a free PDF (either funny or useful)?

Also, see http://www.rewardlevel.com/

I remember reading about this pre-launch sign up in HN ... is there a code snippet where startup can put on their website?

Is hipster giving something in exchange for sign up? Am not seeing any offer on their landing page.

Clickable - http://www.poundwire.com

Great interview! Concept is definitely something that fills a need, noise on Twitter makes it seem overwhelming.

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