ramenable

Joined 13 years ago

Karma

Submissions

Member since

Oct 2

Hi, I am Peter, an entrepreneur wannabe.

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 12 years ago

This would probably make a pretty good poll. You can create a poll at https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll if you have more than 200 karma (I don't :( yet)

If anyone does create the poll, it might be more valuable to have options to vote on individual social network.

For e.g. these could be poll options

- I never sign up through Social Media

- Twitter Only

- Facebook only

- LinkedIn only

- Google Plus only

- Any social media would be fine for me

Comment · 12 years ago

These are excellent points, especially about validation.

Question to OP - Why not have a freemium model - where if the user does not pay then his account is downgraded to free plan. This generally has the benefit of keeping those users interested who may pay for the service sometime in the future.

As an example - I used Zopim on my website for a whole year for Free before converting to a Paid user. Had Zopim not had a free plan, I would have tried other competitors and eventually become a paid customer of theirs. By keeping a free plan, they retained me as a customer.

Comment · 13 years ago

Some feedback

1. Don't force the user to enter the phone number. I don't mind giving out my email address, but my phone number is only if you win my trust.

2. You need to have some form of trial before requiring a credit card. If that's not possible then at least a video demo and screenshots.

edit: formatting

Comment · 13 years ago

Clickable - http://Killswit.ch

Comment · 13 years ago

Frapi PHP - http://getfrapi.com/

Comment · 13 years ago

Clickable http://www.ommageo.com/ http://solitaireinfosys.com/demo/will_brown_new/index.php

Ask HN: How did you do marketing for your app?

12 ramenable 13 years ago 4 comments

Comment · 13 years ago

There are too many parameters if you use Pizza. A better alternative is to use the Big Mac Index. It's published by the Economist for the same purpose.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

Comment · 13 years ago

Do something that you are passionate about or find fun to do and that you would probably do even if you don't get paid for. If its not fun, it will feel like work and you will come to resent it.

e.g If you are passionate about motor bikes, create a blog about motor bikes. As you grow your audience you can profit by either ads or affiliate sales.

If you list down your passions here, maybe the community can help you come up with an idea on what to do.