aytekin

Hi HN,

We built a ChatGPT app that lets you create and manage Jotform forms through conversation. You can generate forms, refine them, and analyze submissions without leaving ChatGPT.

Here’s the link: https://www.jotform.com/chatgpt/

Happy to hear feedback or questions.

@aytekin

That might be the goal. If you are storing private data for your users which should not be queried. You can have separate encryption keys for each user and keep their data on separate databases.

Offering to give users a $50 Amazon gift certificate in exchange for a 45 minute call works pretty well for us.

Since we know that 3 out of 10 users who receive this offer will accept it we segment users by industry / feature usage etc. and send offers to talk to them to listen their stories and feedback.

This is why when investors replace founders the companies stop innovating. Obvious ideas don’t have any value. You need deep domain knowledge to see how things really are, and not how things seem to be.

What he means: If your product (first version) is Great (at a few important things), it doesn't need to be Good (at everything)

I think the unstated “first version” part is important. You should be gradually adding the missing parts. And not just leave it at the great, simple but missing too many things state forever.

Facebook/Twitter is terrible for putting down ideas. You don’t control what happens to your content. Posts get lost in the sea of millions of other posts. These companies constantly change policies.

Writing is a public act. You might still be expecting some readership without the expectation of ad money or promotion of something.

What I miss most about the blogs in 90s and early 00s is the conversation between blogs by linking, quoting and commenting each other. Reading blogs involved going from one blog to another, and reading blogs of 10 people about a single issue. It was a conversation. And you would constantly discover new blogs this way.

https://gocardless.com/en-us/faq/merchants/

“Do you take credit or debit cards?

No, GoCardless is an ACH debit company.”

Most people prefer credit cards. How does it work? Do you ask people if they want to pay by ACH?

Or do you detect debit cards on your credit card form and use this instead of the credit card processor?

Pioneers are supposed to be working behind the scenes on the next version, not quitting the company.

Make your product so good that it doesn’t need any annoying walkthroughs, tips or checklists.

How? User testing, full story, user interviews, detailed product metrics, continuous improvements and giving your designers a lot of power.

It was beautiful on iPad. Maybe it is designed for mobile.

A good way to measure outcome is to watch how many people are using a new feature (or a new version of an existing feature) successfully and how often they use it. The key word here is “successfully”. Don’t just measure how many people tried to use a feature. Define and measure success with a feature.

More likely: "People who live 85 or more have more of the good things like health and safe environment which also makes them optimistic."

Do you regret selling it in the first place?

Can they handle monthly subscriptions?

I love doing something similar with my small kids (4 and 2). I start laughing for no reason and when they see me laughing they start laughing. We laugh and have good time without any reason until we get tired. I also remember seeing some festival in India on TV. Everyone is laughing and having good time, for no reason.

We have been self-serve product for the first 12 years and a year ago we launched our Enterprise version. As the article mentions because of the existing high traffic it has been pretty easy to find leads. We have already signed 100 Enterprise customers. Our main challenge was not to find customers, in fact we struggled to catch up with leads. The main challenges were making the product Enterprise ready with necessary features such as covering most popular SSOs and building admin privileges on the Enterprise product, and trying to build a sales team from scratch.

We had to hire 3 sales people before we found someone right. It is like someone hiring developers without any development experience. You get it wrong because you don't know what makes someone good. Get help from someone who has experience. We finally found the right person from our network and suddenly sales started flying.

I was at a luxury Turkish resort in the Mediterranean this summer. It had an amazing open buffet. You could find anything you want. I'd just fill two plates with different boreks and nothing else. Hot, right out of the oven, they were amazing.

Here is a startup idea for grabbing: Make a better interface for AWS/Google Cloud.

Since their APIs covers everything this should be possible. Be the first UXaaS.

A killer feature: a server by server breakdown of Google Cloud expenses. It is impossible to understand what you are paying for on Google Cloud. They lump everything together in an incredibly confusing bill.

I second the slow reading. Reading is thinking. Let your mind wander.

Looks like an amazing solution for doing Morning Pages. Here is how I do it currently: https://medium.com/swlh/how-ive-used-morning-pages-to-grow-a...

"tiny AWS instance running Postfix under Ubuntu. It has 2 Gigs of memory, priced around $9/month and the CPU load rarely goes beyond 15%"

The title should have been "How we send 22000 emails every hour for $9/month"

16 million emails for $9 is actually pretty good.

In most development work team productivity is more important than individual productivity. I have found that the best approach is to have co-located team rooms. (And the team members should be working on the same project. Putting people together does not make it a team. If everyone has a different project, that’s not a team)

If the work has to be done individually, then there is no point in being co-located. Remote works well.

Co-located teams communicate well, decide and move quickly, and has much higher trust between team members.

Work that does not require too much communication, speed and collaboration is more suitable to remote.

This hybrid approach worked well for us.

We have been supporting this feature on our web app for many years: https://www.jotform.com/encrypted-forms/

Knowing only you have access to tha data is a good thing. For example, we are able to host our internal employee feedbacks and reviews on our own forms without worrying about a sysadmin or database admin having access to it.

I understand the concerns about client side manipulation but that is hard to do without leaving a trail on our code commit history. Both system and product changes can only be done by code commits.

You cannot protect systems with a single perfect security solution. You have to be paranoid and have many layers in your security model. This may not be the silver bullet, but this greatly enhances the security.

I do inbox zero so I am not usually looking at the email list, but to the actual emails. I also started using larger fonts as I am now 40. So, the amount of space the left and the top frames take up is quite a lot. I haven’t tried this but hopefully this can fix that.

By the way, here are the tricks I do to do inbox zero on gmail: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/290175

4% of the Google index hit by de-indexing

https://searchengineland.com/4-of-the-google-index-hit-by-de...

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

5% + 50c!

They only make sense if you are small in scale. Use them when you are starting out and then build your own after you have a good number of paid users.

Yes, once you scale really big it is hard to keep a high growth rate. But if you have been always growing at 50% YoY, it is possible to keep that rate even at year 12. This is pretty common amount bootstrappers. I am speaking from my own experience at the company I founded: JotForm’s last 7 years were at 50%.

Ahrefs recently announced a similar growth rate: https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-achieve-65-yoy-growth-by-igno...

Money as a motivator sucks. It is much more easier to earn money as a side effect of being really good at what you do.

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda

An amazing book full of great stories and lessons to learn from people who made incredible innovations like the first iPhone. My favorite parts are the story of the iPhone keyboard and detailed encounters of Steve Jobs demos he has given.