Thymer - a week after the launch

http://stunf.com/blog/launch-the-week-after/

by dan_sim • 17 years ago

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dan_sim3• 17 years ago

Is it me or those numbers are impressive for "yet another project management app"? How can it be explained?

ovi256• 17 years ago

These numbers are very impressive. I'm building such a tool too, with a twist. I'll tell how it goes when I'll launch.

percept• 17 years ago

I wonder if they're attracting more European customers. Also, could price be a factor (one user for $5, six for $25)?

dan_sim3• 17 years ago

But yet, the price is comparable to other products of that kind that I saw.

jd3• 17 years ago

We're happy with the numbers, but I think they can be partially explained by our long beta period. People have been asking us "when can we start paying?" since the beginning of the summer.

We are entering a crowded market, but it's not as bad as you may think. A lot of the competing project management software startups take the exact same approach. So we see Basecamp and all the Basecamp clones as just a single competitor, and we deliberately take a different approach. As a result, some people will prefer their approach, and other people tell us they've been looking for something like Thymer for over ten years, and that's the kind of feedback that confirms we may have found a good niche.

dan_sim3• 17 years ago

Where did you talk about your product during the beta period? Did they come at you or you came to them?

DanielStraight5• 17 years ago

This looks like a really cool product, but where are the TOS and privacy policy? I know not having them is the in thing now (I'm looking at you, StackOverflow), but there's no way I'm signing up for anything and giving my data without them.

gertburger2• 17 years ago

They are presented during the second stage of signup.

DanielStraight5• 17 years ago

Yet I would never go to the second stage without seeing them. This sounds like a paradox.

... and I just signed up without seeing any TOS, so...

jgrahamc• 17 years ago

The first pie chart is an abomination. Firstly, it's about time series data so that chart itself is not appropriate and secondly it's next to impossible to spot the difference between 10/20 and 10/21 without the figures.

See http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/08/please-dont-use-pie-charts.h...

jd3• 17 years ago

Haha. The use of 3d pie charts was deliberate, and I know they convey almost no information (and often give a skewed impression). We would never use a pie chart for real decisions, but in this case we only cover 7 days worth of sales, which is way too little for any meaningful analysis.

In this case, the 3d pie charts just look shiny :)

joshu3• 17 years ago

Still beating you down with a copy of Tufte.

yan2• 17 years ago

Sorry for nitpicking, but using a pie chart for your first graph is grossly inappropriate. It's notoriously difficult to differentiate small differences using pie charts.

If you're comparing revenue per day, a line graph or even a bar graph can convey that information a lot better.

joshu3• 17 years ago

Or even a table.

Someone should write a book or summary or whatever on How To Show Data.

yan2• 17 years ago

Ahem.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex

(edit: i realize you're probably being sarcastic, but i'll just leave these links here for the unenlightened)

Thymer - a week after the launch

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