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yep, broken... too bad, looks interesting

lucky you! In France (where we're located), the average referral bonus is 700€ - for any kind of company. We'd love to know about the size of your company and referral bonuses for other positions (to get a better idea)?

hey, thanks for posting this to HN! Would love to hear what you think of the article / our referral system. Cheers

Great and "fun" experiment :-)

Would be interesting to see how these "types of titles" (How, Tips, Shortcuts)convert in terms of "time spent", "bounce rate" etc...

I guess that this is also really "Twitter" oriented. On other distribution channels like HN it might be different.

Last thing, I'm wondering if it's sustainable. So many "tips" and "shortcuts" articles are shared on Twitter nowadays. Maybe it's rooted too deep in the human brain :-)

Thks for the tip!

thks for the summary! I'll just add:

#1 we sent 2 emails but too late (after 3 months) #2 spreadsheets are fine until 50 - 100 users after we couldn't keep up #4 we did get some exposure but really not enough compared to what we could have had

thks I'll correct it. Sorry for it.

yep cannot see a pricing page. i'm wondering if they will be a pro offer. I guess for agencies it's important to know that you have a real business behind.

Looks cool, cannot see a pricing page do you have plan to have a pro version?

good question. We actually didn't have sharing buttons on our home + the fact that we had a really really minimalistic homepage for a long time limited the "viral" leverage.

That said for our public beta it'll be a focus.

that's an interesting question! The thing is that there is so much "plumbing" to do that a lot of the value is in the backend. Since it cannot be used by many many projects (we won't build thousands of email clients)the market for this open source model seems too small. My 2 cents.

Congrats Mikita and the team! Great progress since last version. Do you have a mobile app yet?

Don't know these guys personally but I like the idea of using a small amount of money to separate motivated beta users from non ones.

That said their argument saying that it's a good method not to attract "Tyre Kickers" only doesn't stand so much. As a competitor I would specially be interested to pay 30$ to access a product from a potential competitor.

You wrote down: "my target market is essentially small business owners who dislike Yelp" => is this an hypothesis or a fact?

Before doing marketing, make sure there is a market/people ready to pay for your solution.

Only if so, start doing marketing (outbound, inbound,...).

It all depends on what you want to achieve/build with your business.

I'm not an expert in collect/display testimonials solution but have you validated the need for such a product? Any paying customers yet?

If so, clearly define your typical customers and find ways to reach out to them.

Hope it helps.

thks, we're working on a new version. It's our early beta one.

Good feedback thks! Appreciate it!

because you don't know our ceo yet :-) Mathilde is really nice and you'll love it I'm sure!

sorry what do you mean?

Great ressources for tackling public speaking. Though it misses an important part I believe: behaviour and how to express yourself while public speaking.

Great to see some HN love for a Belgian company! We're also part of the Belgian Mafia ;) Let's keep it up!