Ask HN: Can you understand what my startup does?

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by emoray13 • 14 years ago

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Hi all, so I recently opened up http://quicklytest.it/ to the public and I've seen a good response.

However there has been some feedback that the homepage doesn't really explain the service very well, so I've made some adjustments today.

I'd be grateful for any opinions on how easy you think the concept is to grasp and any improvements I could make?

Thanks.

ColinWright• 14 years ago

Anyone who's had any exposure to the Lean Startup school of thought will know this idea already, so most people here will definitely know what you're doing.

As an aside - I detest being sent to a landing page that's clearly harvesting emails as a prelude to actually doing any real work on implementation, but maybe that's just me. Plausibly your implementation of this idea will be a real boon for someone wanting to try an idea.

emoray132• 14 years ago

Hi Colin. Yes I agree it's a fine balance between not having a product and pretty much spamming and wanting to get out of the door with something that could be really valuable to a lot of people.

I've found that the service is really useful to those who wouldn't be able to test their ideas (not technical, not enough time etc) and I know a couple of projects that have come out of it so far that look really good. So have faith.

Mm that's a good point though, perhaps I could include something about it being suitable for 'lean startups'. Is that copyrighted I wonder?

benologist• 14 years ago

You should emphasize that it's a landing page service. Check out LaunchRock, they've had some time and practice in this space and have a very succinct description: http://launchrock.com/.

Also second what Colin said. It's so fucking boring when people post asking for feedback on a "coming soon" page or whatever, whether they wasted weeks hand-carving it or used a service to create it for them.

27182818284• 14 years ago

I get it, but I don't think people outside of the startup community (armchair or otherwise) will. For example, I know successful business owners that would stare at me funny if I talked to them about "conversions." That type of lingo doesn't come up. So if the recent feedback is from people like that, I wouldn't be surprised.

emoray132• 14 years ago

The feedback was from techy people, but not necessarily people who know the ins and outs of startups.

That's a good point though, perhaps if I just told the end user 'Probably would work' rather than 24% overall conversion rate it might be more user friendly.

eranation• 14 years ago

I would emphasize the differences between this and things like unbounce.com, because I couldn't really see what added value is being offered. (I'm sure there is probably, I just couldn't see this beyond the yet another landing page generator)

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