jainvivek

114 karma · joined July 15, 2019

Building Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for Google Sheets

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/hiretale_ats/387251605270

Time to say goodbye to messy spreadsheets and bloated ATS.

submissions comments

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Strange that it didn't work at that traffic level with zero CAC. Was product expensive to build/run?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

I guess there exists both set of readers.

First who are clear with their destinations, and simply want the best journey towards it.

Second who want to know different journeys to finalize their destinations.

Majority falls in first set, but the article is written for second.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

I also think along the similar lines. Plus meeting prospects physically isn't always possible, especially when you are selling outside own country. So well-targeted emails seem good strategy to generate inbound interest. Less intrusive than calls or texts.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

And because they create so much noise, no option left for a new comer other than trying to shout louder than them. All-in-all a vicious cycle of spamming!

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

I meant who you were targeting?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Target customers?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

How did you find those callers?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

+1 for freemium. A lot of advice against it, but it is working for me. Right limit on usage/feature is the key to avoid abuse and maximize conversions.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

It is highly skewed for incumbents and big startups like Notion. And "winner takes all" setup would mean there is 95 percent chance you won't be visible in search results even if someone searched by exact keyword of your product name.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Oh ok. Right side was cut off, so I thought of unresponsive.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Key is not getting banned.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Cool. Images don't seem responsive on mobile though.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Ripple effects of success! How do you manage customer support for so many users in 3 different companies alone?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Who did you target?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

That would mean all database providers are basically spam enablers!

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

I see. LinkedIn promotions are not cheap, but the targeting can be extremely specific to maintain ROI.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Inspiring, you must be having a good number of connections on LinkedIn. Target audience?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Target audience? Did you use any tool to find relevant threads?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Target audience? And in what duration you got those 100 users just by conversations?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

That's one point of view, but it works. Of course sender should research the audience properly, and provide one-click unsubscribe option right at the top.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

> The bigger problem is Google et al make it very easy to waste money on their ads.

That's me in 2018. Spent a good amount of money in Google Ads and only attracted users that we did not want.

Just putting negative keywords wasn't sufficient, and even one miss was enough to waste all efforts.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Target audience?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

How do you majorly engage them?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Post Disappeared from Listing?

Thanks

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Largely true. Lack of money in some cases can be compensated by investing more time and efforts.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Which subs? How did you avoid getting banned?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Great!

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Some harsh truths there.

Unfortunately not everyone has resources to start with ads (especially bootstrapped firms or solopreneurs), and in some way growing organically and slowly gives you more time to develop product better.

Having said that, I am in agreement with the essence of this reply.

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Wow, what a combo of offline and online growth!

What made you prefer HN over dev platforms like StackOverflow or Github?

jainvivek··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

Did you have emails of target audience already, or you bought that? If bought, from where?

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