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singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

Thanks for the thoughts. Here are some questions for you:

- How would I know which days and times are open before you tell me which services you'd like to schedule? It seems this idea would result in more effort since you might have to go back to the calendar a bunch of times because the services are not available on the selected date and time.

- It's not possible to schedule two services in a single appointment if they are not offered on the same day. I'm sure this will come up at some point. How would you work around that?

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

Or maybe even create an API to pull the services, appointments times, and schedule the appointment.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

1 - Good points. There is a setting to require customers to confirm appointments via email. If not confirmed within 1 hour, the appointment automatically cancells itself.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

I added some more content on the homepage to show off the main sections of the admin area.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

The idea was to use a short domain name -- in order to keep the link shorter. A lot of customers probably would not even notice the domain name if linking from a company website. I suppose the same could be said about schedulicity.com, but their name doesn't seem to be affecting their business.

Via the Reservv admin, the company has complete access to their customer data. Companies cannot download customer data through the admin. That's a good idea, but wasn't a primary goal for the first release.

The colors, background and text can be customized on the site that the customer interacts with when scheduling an appointment. The Reservv logo cannot be replaced. That's on my to-do list though.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

Thanks for your feedback. To answer your questions:

- The reminder is not optional.

- Yes, you can do all that you mentioned in the admin.

- This is a fully working product. If you sign up, you can see the admin right away. Perhaps I should add a link to a demo admin area.

- I'm not sure what you're suggesting about the lack of a monthly fee. Can you explain some more?

- I don't think this competes with patio11's product. As far as I know, customers do not use his product to schedule appointments.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add a section to show how that part works too.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

- A company sets up a Reservv site and posts it on their website or business card.

- A customer wants to schedule an appointment with the company, so they visit the link (e.g. http://www.Reservv.com/Demo).

- The customer is presented with a list of services offered by the company.

- The customer is able to choose a date and time for their appointment from the available openings. Dates and times can be displayed in the customer's time zone if the company does business in different time zones.

- The customer decides how they'd like to be reminded (phone, text or email) and schedules the appointment.

- The business owner, employee and/or customer receives an appointment confirmation via email/text. When the appointment nears, the business owner, employee and/or customer receives an appointment reminder via email/text/phone. The customer can cancel the appointment via email/text/phone when the reminder is delivered.

It's a win-win situation for all parties involved. The business owner saves time. The employees are notified of new appointments. Customers can schedule at their own convenience.

singeron Ask HN: Review my startup, Reservv.com (Appointment Scheduler & Reminder)

http://www.Reservv.com

singeron Google search blacklist extension blocks spam sites

This looks like a dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060994&utm_source=t...

singeron Launching My First Incubated Startup Today

Suggestion: On your landing page, remove the definition for Twitter. Your users are already using Twitter, so they don't need a definition. It's probably more important to set focus on the "Slipstream" definition.

singeron [dead]

I think a lemonade stand beat you speed-wise.

singeron How I Made My First 100 Sales

Agreed. I'd suggest some A/B testing to see which copy performs best. Check out Google Website Optimizer:

http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer

singeron Ask HN: Is there an easy way to do shareware?

I found donation-based software does not work very well. However, I suppose it could work like a champ if you have millions of users. You're most likely to find that it'll create an increased need for support since you'll have more users. That might not be the best thing for you right now since you still have a day job. I'd suggest you go with a 30-day trial. The next best thing would be a version with minimal features, and a fully-featured pay version.

singeron Ask HN: Is there an easy way to do shareware?

Fortunately, the average computer user doesn't know how to find and/or used cracked software. Personally, I wouldn't worry about this much. Almost all well-known software has been cracked. That didn't seem to stop them though.

singeron Appointment Reminder Launches

I think you meant "no contracts".

singeron Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed Idea

once you enter the mode of acquiring your way into new products, it's hard to shake it

If you've been following Google, then you know they are no stranger to acquiring existing products. And as far as I can tell, their business isn't going down the tubes.

singeron Ask HN: What are you using for email marketing?

I'm using ServerGrid.com. It's a great service for sending mass email programmatically.

singeron What IDE do you use for your JavaScript/AJAX development?

Aptana Studio (http://aptana.com)

singeron Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed Idea

Why create a competing product from scratch when you can afford to buy the proven product? And don't forget about all of the existing Groupon employees you could hire.

singeron Scr.im » Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

After I started using gmail, 99.9% of my spam started getting filtered out. Now I can post my email wherever I like. It sure beats making customers jump through an extra hoop to contact me.

singeron Ask HN: Has HN been slow/spotty loading for you?

10 to 20 seconds? That's pretty speedy. I've seen pages take minutes to load. I've noticed the slowness you speak of for a couple of weeks now.

singeron How is "remember me" functionality implemented in famous websites?

You could store an encrypted username and password, or a session id if you don't want to store the username and password locally. Storing the password locally is not the best idea, but it's easier than tracking a session id.

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/01/19/persistent_login_coo...

http://jaspan.com/improved_persistent_login_cookie_best_prac...

singeron "Goodbye GoDaddy" promotion

Domain registrations for $16 a year? Perhaps they should change their promotion title to "Hello GoDaddy".

singeron Ask HN: Looking For A Logo Designer

You can buy exclusive rights to any logo that was previously sold for $199. So, you could buy an original logo there.

singeron Ask HN: Who Is Launching This Month? (November 2010)

Reservv | http://www.Reservv.com (11/22/2010)

A self-service web application for companies to manage appointments online. Customers can view a calendar of open appointment dates/times, reserve appointments, cancel appointments, and receive reminders by email/phone. No monthly fee. Pay by usage (number of emails sent/phone calls made).

singeron Ask HN: Looking For A Logo Designer

You can purchase a logo in their Logo Store for $99.

http://99designs.com/logo-design/store

singeron Remind HN: AWS Free Usage Tier Begins Today.

More info: http://aws.amazon.com/free

singeron Ask HN: Conflict of interest?

My comment was in reply to gshannon's thought that most companies own all work/ideas. Your reply to my comment made no sense. Thanks for clarifying though. I didn't think you had a point.

singeron Ask HN: Conflict of interest?

What's your point?