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cod3boy

106 karma · joined January 23, 2012

http://startglobal.co/
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cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Will work on most feedbacks, some of them are messed up because we tried to incorporate feedback from HN in real-time. For example, the video was added to give a quick gist of what the platform looks like after we received feedback here about the lack of clarity. Will consider the rest of feedback in detail :)
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Noted, now that we are here, can you please take a look at this one too? We had an explainer as well :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23V3LmRUb4
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Noted, just to make it clear, we've so far made the personal website, client onboarding, requirement collection with NDAs for now. Invoices, payments, and agreements are yet to come :)
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Noted the point, will clarify in the copy.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
I've freelanced on the side for a few years. I used to put together a google form for the requirement collection, then send the NDAs on DocuSign,I had a quite number of people asking me to send an NDA before discussing. Quickbooks for accounting and sometimes PandaDoc for agreements. While putting together this product, I wanted to reduce the friction of getting started with freelancing and put together all of these in a single package. I've also spent time answering previous portfolios, my fee structure etc, which are kind of FAQs, that's why we thought of putting a personal assistant to quickly answer basic questions.

I'd love to hear your points, and probably what are the needs of a pro person like you?

cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
When I said quick, I meant we made that quickly, while the comments were happening on HN. Will put together a good one by tomorrow.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Thanks for the reading materials. Really relevant, Will go through them in detail.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Noted all the feedback, the virtual assistant is a real person who answers basic questions about the freelancers, and not a chatbot. I think that's really good as well, overall I think we failed at showcasing and on the onboarding flow and using the typeform :)
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Can you please take a quick look, here is the actual product in the show. I think we failed at showcasing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7wAeenBe-c
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
I'll take into consideration all the feedbacks. About the questions, For NDA after signing up you get to choose your signature and works similar to other digital signature services like DocuSign.

The personal assistant is a real person to answer basic questions about you and your services (freelancer).

Will work on the rest of the questions and feedback :)

cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Which one is your device?
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Looks like it, tons of feedback on that. Going to change.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Which is your device?
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
We'll get back to you now.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Thanks, just FYI here is demo we worked up just now if you are interested :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32kJRAbIoU
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Thanks for the feedback, I think I've received a lot along this lines, will think this out deeper.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Thank you :)
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
It should be something else, it's working perfectly fine here, and moreover its a Typeform. Can you try again?
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
https://bighead.sievehq.com/ and a demo here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32kJRAbIoU
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Interesting comment, I'll take a better look. Just that you mentioned about the different sides of business, here is a piece I've written about the whole larger vision https://medium.com/@cod3boy/startup-101-philosophy-vision-an...
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Noted, thanks :)
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
We paid nothing, it was all from Product hunt. We were on the top 5 day before yesterday.
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Disabling in a moment :)
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Can you please take a quick look here and send a feedback? This is the real product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32kJRAbIoU
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
I love HN and all the comments here, but this one particularly is very helpful for me. Thank you!
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
We had gifs in our PH post. Will work on to bring them in the website https://ph-files.imgix.net/9c21f525-f715-4110-b04e-af2b3bf46...
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
I was thinking about the only email signup now. But really skip the email too and right into the product? :) Is there any product you've seen particularly do well with that approach?
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Just on the home page and onboarding, I realize it was a mistake :) Here is the actual product in the show. Can you please take a look? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7wAeenBe-c
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
Got this feedback about the onboarding process. Working on this :) While we are hacking together a bunch of tools to onboard and a home page, we really had worked on the product. Here is a quick video if you are intrigued https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7wAeenBe-c
cod3boy··on Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?
We actually had many more questions, we were asking all the questions that required to make their personal website like this https://bighead.sievehq.com/, then scrapped all the questions when users started dropping off.
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