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going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users?

You need to mention that they charge $300/month minimum. Their feature set seems pretty low for the high price...

going_to_800on Show HN: Articly – Automated Blog Writing as a Service

I've been looking for someone to grow a blog, but I'm not sure if I'm going to hire a freelance or use a service like this.

Is there a plan where I can choose how long the article would be and the depth of the research made?

Can I share the main points the article should contain and build the content around that?

going_to_800on SES-10 Mission

http://spacenews.com/spacexs-reusable-falcon-9-what-are-the-...

Of course the first missions won't that effective for cost savings, but the future ones will be.

going_to_800on ConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business

Note to myself: I need to build a tool for bloggers.

going_to_800on Facebook expected to revise plans for Messenger Bot API as failure rate hits 70%

I tested FB messenger bots from different companies...They are very intrusive. They need to limit the messages somehow and also make a clear difference between messages from bots and friends, like gmail does with promotional messages.

going_to_800on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

It's not that big problem for you then.

going_to_800on Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

Please contact me admin [at] crazyctr (.) com with your ideas.

I had a few years ago a product that made banner variations, now I'm looking to revive it.

going_to_800on Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API

I was looking for the same thing but for email providers. I would like to let users to subscribe to mailchimp,aweber,getresponse etc using a single integrations instead of having to integrate each one of them.

going_to_800on Ask HN: Any SaaS idea to share?

I want an email service that sends each week 10 saas ideas and also see who started working on which.

going_to_800on Ask HN: Would you pay for a service that will recruit partners/affiliates?

Low quality. Not targeted. Network owns the affiliates. Most of them are marketers not businesses or individuals as potential partners.

going_to_800on Ask HN: Would you pay for a service that will recruit partners/affiliates?

I'm a former affiliate(7 years in the industry) and I know how the networks do this, it's not targeted recruitment...they put you in their network and promote your offer to their, often low quality, affiliates... they don't actively look after any targeted affiliates for your business.

I'm willing to offer a high quality services for SaaS companies using outreach campaigns and targeting more consultants, web developers, agencies etc than bloggers or marketers(unless they are influencers).

Eventually to also be able to manage and build the program...example of a great program http://www.leadforensics.com/partners/

going_to_800on Ask HN: Would you pay for a service that will recruit partners/affiliates?

On the beginning the monthly fee will be required to reinvest the money into promotion and outreach. When the performance fee will get big enough, it won't be really necessary.

going_to_800on Ask HN: We built a product that nobody wants. What’s next?

The thing with optimization tools is that they require some kind of expertise and patience...and most people don't have that for a new, unknown product.

I was selling a tool similar to Optimizely in a different market. The only way I get it going was to ditch the monthly plan and add use only anual plan, target people with expertise in marketing and use outbound sales for bigger clients.

going_to_800on Ask HN: We built a product that nobody wants. What’s next?

Guys, you need people that use landing pages all day long and have enough traffic.

Your market is huge(I know that because I was selling products for this niche), from solo internet marketers with big email lists to media buying agencies. You just need a few case studies to show them it's working.

Do you have any case studies?

going_to_800on Ask HN: We built a product that nobody wants. What’s next?

Ok, can you share how you tried to market it?

When a product generates ROI, people will use it. Target the marketers who use leadpages, unbounce, etc, if it works, they will use it.

Register to StackThatMoney forum, the biggest private affiliate marketing forum, they work with landing pages all day long. Post your product there, I guarantee 50 sales in 2 months from there.

You need to target people with high traffic on their landers, i think the product is good(if it delivers), but you failed at sales and marketing....not on the idea.

Nobody wants your product because you are targeting the wrong people, that's my thought.

going_to_800on Ask HN: How many SMB SaaS companies are out there?

That much you think?

going_to_800on Ask HN: How many SMB SaaS companies are out there?

Anyone has an idea? Angel.co has 10k listed, but I think many are not. What do you think the real number is?

going_to_800on Show HN: Grow your SaaS through partner and affiliate programs

I built this because I had a hard time launching an affiliate program for my last products.

If you are you planning to start an affiliate/partner program for your SaaS, please let me know, I'll try to help you.

going_to_800on Model 3 Unveiling [video]

Lol :)

What's with this non-sense rant? Where did you get that girly=bad?

Sexist? I don't even bother...

I'm free to share my opinion, or not? Simply, it's a car I would buy for my daughter, not me. This is not the case for Tesla designs.

going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

That's a really great point.

Unfortunately I'm not from UK, I'm from eastern Europe.

We can chat using the tool if you like :)

going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

Hey, thanks for the offer.

They can include the link to the chat page in job posting, articles, careers page, email etc, like "Apply via Chat"

A few benefits are: - low barrier to get in touch, right when the candidates are the most interested - faster than email and more comfortable than phone calls(especially for tech guys) - no more filling of long application forms - gives a good impression and stands out from the competition

going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

Thanks, you gave me an idea to search for tech recruiters(one of the target market) with hashtags

Do you have any tips how to engage with them?

going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

Higher engagement(it's a landing page dedicated to chat), lead generation during conversation(it has a form builder) and you can include the chat link in emails or other websites.

going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

Awesome, thanks. This could also be used to find what pains people have.

Any suggestion of how to find that? Using keywords like "how can I" ?

going_to_800on Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

Kinda validated, but I need to hit the 10 customers mark.

My product is a SaaS, outbound live chat for lead generation teams.

going_to_800on Ask HN: Doing cold emails? helps us prove this concept for closing more leads

I'm glad to get insights of how people perceive cold emails, thanks.

The thing with the schedule link is interesting. The tool has a schedule form that can be set as default...after the prospect clicks on the link, the schedule form will appear.

I thing it depends on the email you are getting and the timing you open the email. If you don't have a big "batch" to process, like in the middle of the day and the mail says "are you free on __ for a call or if you prefer, we can have now a 3 minutes chat" ... or something like this, I think busy people are more likely to click the chat link instead scheduling phone calls.

going_to_800on Ask HN: Doing cold emails? helps us prove this concept for closing more leads

Thanks for you sharing your thoughts.

How did you tried live-chat? As a website widget? or "add me on skype" ? Both are totally different than our solution.

Website widget is inbound so it has a different focus than outbound live-chat, like we are offering. There are many differences between live-chat widget and our tool http://www.chatpage.io/#why-not-livechat-widgets

I'm curious what you tried with live-chat, if not website widget I assume Skype?

Skype has also I high friction, you need to add the person and it's kinda personal. What we offer brings you in a chat page by just a click.

going_to_800on Ask HN: Doing cold emails? helps us prove this concept for closing more leads

More about this on http://chatpage.io

going_to_800on Ask HN: Doing cold emails? helps us prove this concept for closing more leads

You don't have to, it has an email fallback

going_to_800on Ask HN: Doing cold emails? helps us prove this concept for closing more leads

We don't have enough data yet, but seems to work better on people who use the computer often. Older demo or people who are on the go constantly, prefer phone calls obviously.

As far as disadvantages, this is not a replacement to email or phone, it's more to get faster the call/meeting. You let people chose how to get in touch first and chat has much less friction than phone calls...

You can also use it to warm up leads