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Comment by AndrewKemendo | Hacker News Reader

I really wish we knew what the site was and it wasn't anonymous. Maybe the post was premature because the author still needs to "fake it till they make it" - but I would imagine that it would be a little bit of good press if nothing else.

Without knowing what the product is though it is hard for folks to compare where they are with this narrative.

For what it's worth I am in almost the exact situation, only I have a product, but its one of those bleeding edge situations that requires a lot of up-front work. So this is a topic very close to home. I just wish I could figure out how similar it is.

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I was going to offer a humble suggestion: why not reach out to him with an email or comment on his blog? But then I see it's just a filler article for pandodaily. That's pathetic. And unless they amend the article's byline, then it's a shameless plug for pageviews. What a shame.

Agreed. I wish I could reach out to the author, learn more, and see where his product went. This is the stuff that fascinates me and something we see all the time at work - people with ideas they can't shake and are willing to take risks in order to see it become a reality.

I don't necessarily think building something was the right first move though. I'm a big fan of PG's "Do Things that Don't Scale", so I created https://manualviableproduct.com in my spare time to help people like this.

Could you please provide an actual example of a website containing the button, im having a hard time visualising it.

At first I thought this was a slimmer version of launchrock but it appears this for use cases where you already have a product to sell... I think?

I'll reach out to you.

I would also love to hear what your product is and how you're succeeding.

You should also get some information about the computer through on the email. If someone is on IE8 with an 800x600 monitor then they are a different class of customer to someone running - say - Chrome on Linux. Knowing someone is 'a Mac user' is also a telling signal if you intend to sell them something.

Also time on site is useful to know. Did they read the page? Maybe if they spent a good few minutes with the page open.

IP address - GeoIP to city with country - is also a useful thing to know. Do you really want to respond to that guy where shipping prices mean that a sale is effectively unrealistic?

Such mild-deep-stalking would be helpful to your customers and make your service appeal to a wider audience.

I'm in the same boat: 30-plus... bleeding edge tech in an industry dying to be disrupted...high capital requirements. Unlike the author (yet to be named), I've been working on being a good programmer -- first -- so that I can provide an adequate proof of concept and then seek a CTO as well as an industry cofounder. I guess I've been doing it backwards (?)...except, what was it that he built?

Agreed

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