JarekS

Excuse my buzz word but I think the only way you can make it spread is to embed a virus. One of the things you can do is to enable user to share his search with friends/family over facebook, twitter etc. They could help him adding additional elements to the search (i.e. if they find something on the web that user is looking for they can submit a link), or give other advice.

SEO will not work - as it didn't work for Dropbox. Nobody is waking up one day and start searching for such a tool that you provide.

Geoffrey A. Moore - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

At Smartupz we are trying to do the lean model and customer development. It's much harder then it looks - first problem is that people you are trying to approach (in our case small/medium business) have no time. So you must be very clear in terms of your value proposition so they can immediately "get" your app and share their opinion.

Creating crisp/short value proposition statement is damn hard.

Second thing - throwing at people MVP or just a presentation with the proposed functionality works fantastic! We get tons of great feedback without actually having to write a single line of code. When we eventually start writing code - functionality is much more "down to earth" and customer is willing to test it because it's partially his baby.

cheers, Jarek.

Maybe you should share a link to your site?

No no no - the system will not have user passwords! We will get only "ok" from the web app that the password was correct.

You have a good point. But the next thing you need to think of is: - is Xobni really serving the market in an optimal way? - Is there something we can do better?

To be honest I don't see answers for those two questions on their landing page. My first feeling was that it was like more complicated version of the "connect" button in Xobni.

You will have tough competition from i.e. Xobni. They are free to use, well integrated with Outlook and let you display LinkedIn info about every email address that you are dealing with. http://www.xobni.com/social-outlook

I think that these designs are also optimized for conversion rates. To be honest - there is no golden rule for a "conversion design" - you must do your a/b testing because a lot depends on the web copy.

You may want to look at some sites that present great web design like http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/tag/crisp or http://cssmania.com/topics/business/technology/ (i've copied links to really cool designs in your area of interest).

Thanks for this opinion! I'll count that as an upvote for Product Suite.

But the question is - would you use/buy all-in-one app that does all that offer/invoice/project management thing?

ChromeOS and recent acquisition of Palm will have a big impact on the web app ecosystem. Things like jQtouch ( checkout how our HTLM/jQtouch app looks on iPhone and Andorid HTC Desire http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/05/htc-desire-and-iphone-smart... ) will only speed up the process of turning web apps/web sites into fully touch enabled apps.

I don't want to brag or anything but our app was designed to be touch friendly (the UI has big buttons etc.) and we made this decision before the iPad was announced :)

http://blog.smartupz.com/2009/12/islate-aka-apple-itablet-my...

Just wait for the latest version of jQTouch. It'll have iPad support so after few hours of hacking you can make your website look "native" on iPad. Can't wait!

Is anyone looking for remote teams? I'm sure bootstrapped startups could do a lot of projects on the side to improve their cashflow...

Product management. You must think a lot, programming experience is a huge plus, but this kind of work does not tie you to a computer - you should be out more and talk to prospects/customers.

One thing that comes to mind after reading this comment - maybe what we really need is a HN startup directory? A list of startup names as titles, comments and voting (so you would easily know which one is interesting).

Problem with YC companies is that they are US only (am I correct that you must move to US to be funded by YC?). This site is multinational so non-US people will never see anything interesting on /jobs site.

We have put a little bit better landing page here: http://www.smartupz.com/vms/

Thanks! We will post invites when the system is ready for testing.

Clickable link: http://virality.smartupz.com

Thanks for this great feedback!

Good point - I have just updated my Landing Page!

Good point! We will update this.

Please - review this idea - what do you think?

Clickable link http://ourown.smartupz.com/

I'm wondering on only one thing at the moment. How long does it take for people to realize that most of their productivity/business software can be used on iPad as well.

I can imagine people traveling (sales people?) with iPads 3G checking their inventories in real-time, doing their forecast reporting, sending emails, reacting to on-line customer enquires...

Do you think this is something that will happen or my imagination just plays tricks on me? :)

Philosophy of our product was described here http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/03/web-content-management-is-d...

Adobe could buy PhoneGap and integrate their developer tools in the way that you can create HTML5 apps and "package" them to run as native ones on any smartphone (iPhone OS, Andorid, WebOS etc.).

Hyped up? Maybe a little. But notice the font! It's totally readable! :)

For the first 20 minutes this post had different title (much closer to the original one). No one has voted.

I thought of a little experiment and put on much more provocative title - and what do you know! It ended up on the main page few minutes later...