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What friends and random people on the web (even on HN) think about your idea is irrelevant.

You need to speak to prospective customers and get reliable answers to these questions:

1. Are you solving a problem they have?

2. What substitutes do they resort to right now?

3. How much are they willing to pay for this service?

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you, and we thought HN might be one of the best places to get some feedback, since this is where a lot of tech entrepreneurs hang out. I'm hoping the audience here can spread it to anyone they feel the idea may be relevant to.

Small business owners are your most likely customers. I'd suggest also asking for feedback on small business forums like:

http://www.smallbusinessforums.org/

Wow - 28,000 registered users!!! Definitely going to ask around in these forums.

most of them are likely spam bots. last activity on those forums was like 3 months ago.... it's dead

august 2006 was 3 months ago?

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