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They just burned through $1.5 million in funding in just over 1 Year!!^(--no one knows how)

the founder also went through $1.5+ million in about the same amount of time previously, on another startup

Starting to see a trend here?

I would forgo getting a cofounder or spending thousands of dollars on a developer, if you can avoid it. I would use bubble which will enable you to create a web app version without knowing how to code. Build an MVP, see if you can get some traction, then try to find investors.

If you're happy to have a redirect to PayPal's site for payment using either PayPal or Credit Card, then that's an OK solution. There's a lot of hate for PayPal and some if it is justified, and you do lose control of the customer experience, but it's undeniably easy.

If you'd rather something API based with payment taken on your site but still without the hassle of setting up a merchant account (which is not easy!) check out Stripe. (US Only)

If you want to handle recurring payments (eg. subscription) in multiple currencies, check out Saasy

Just tried three photos and none worked. (The upload button just turns into "Go Again")

For instance, this one from Pexels doesn't: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-monument-during-daytime-3290068/

Using Chrome 81.0.4044.138 on Win 10.

Hello!

Social media manager here.

Organic growth is a slow process to begin with, and getting those first 100 followers is a hard slog! The good news is, the more followers you have - the easier they are to reach because you become connected to a wider network of people.

So - to grab those first 100, start with the people closest to you. Friends, family, business contacts - anyone who you can reach face to face to ask for help! Explain why it's important to you and ask them to help by sharing your content from time to time.

Content is important too. Make sure that you're giving people a solid reason to follow you - whether that's money off products, expert advice they can't get anywhere else, humour or anything else that enriches their lives or business. Value is crazy important, there are MILLIONS of accounts out there - why should they follow yours?

Jump in to relevant discussions happening on hashtags. #SmallBusinessSundays was started by Theo Paphitis and is an amazing platform for discussion around small business - jump in, share advice, ask questions, follow some people who are chatting and build relationships with them.

From there, keep building your community. Email your customers to tell them what's going on on your social channels (and make sure it's valuable!), tell them about your profiles when they come in-store or visit your site, put it on your business card.

I'd strongly recommend pumping as little as $10 into Facebook ads too. It's super cheap, you can grab around 100 likes for your page for this amount and it's a great way to kickstart your presence.

Social media is time consuming, and I know time is a premium when you're starting up. It's worth the investment in the long run - communities are powerful tools both for sales and understanding your customers.

Good luck!

M123

EDIT: Just to add, if you don't already - go check out Moz' website for some great advice: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-social-media

You have 2 monitizable areas which can be setup in a couple different ways:

1. Find an expert

a. Either this is a trusted service model like old angieslist (your members pay a annual membership to have access to the list of service centers).

b. Or you have a more yellow pages setup where service providers pay an annual listing fee to be on your site.

I'd lean toward b but that would mean you also have to drive user traffic to make the service center purchase worth while,

2 Shop

a. This could be a straight forward listing price like craigslist (https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/posting_fees)

b. You could go with a percentage like credit cards do (say 1% of the selling price)

I'd lean toward a fixed fee model with $X for cars and #Y for parts.

Good luck!

You must be referring to the Startup Ecosystem Report that was put up on TechCrunch in 2012. Top cities in order: SV, Tel Aviv, LA, Seattle, NYC, Boston.

Link is here.

Disclaimer: this is not legal advice

Typically, if you ever intend to raise VC, you incorporate as a C corp in Delaware. It means you need to have quarterly board meetings, so it's a bit more effort than an LLC, but it makes subsequent fundraising easier. Make sure you allocate 100% of the available shares in your C corp to you and your cofounder: future VC rounds will work by creating new shares in the company to allocate to the VCs, rather than selling existing shares in the company. I made that mistake, and the lawyers during my Seed round were very upset.

There are several online services that make it easy to incorporate as a C corp in Delaware. Stripe Atlas looks pretty good, though I've never used it myself.

Can you legally organize as a non-profit for funding, donations or sponsorships? I saw this interesting interview with Salman Khan describing his passion and enjoyment of the work and operating as a non-profit.

I saw it before, sounds cool. Just suggesting you have a line summing it up. Like this http://betalist.com you know what each product offers right away. All their landing pages will have the line as well.

The first method I mention below (pre Seth Godin) has been successful for me:

• Find out who is most likely to make a decision about this partnership
• Find their email with voilanorbert or hunter.io

• Email them with using one of these methods: http://www.yesware.com/blog/cold-email/

• If this doesn't work you can use Seth Godins approach:

• Find the 3 most likely people to do something about your partnership

• Hand write 3 letters to (one to each person), referencing in the letter that the a copy has been sent to the other 2 people (highlight the other 2 names)

• Put the letters in separate envelopes with only their names on the front

• Call the corporate office, and find out the name of the person in the mailroom

• Put the letters in a manila envelope, and send it addressed to the person in the mailroom with a note to distribute the contents

• The 3 people you reach out to will be guaranteed to get the letters and will see the names of the other two people you sent it to

• These 3 people will contact each other to see who's going to handle your request

• You should hear back from the person assigned to handle the task

Yes, absolutely! You want to base decisions off of data wherever possible. The simplest way to get data is to ask people. Most people are pretty helpful, and many older entrepreneurs want to help younger people where possible and even pass on their knowledge.

You can also use things like Google Surveys, but your best bet early on would just be to just ask as many businesspeople as you can. And if you end up befriending them, ask them to ask their friends too. It goes a long way!

Great site. However, it is hard to understand your value proposition. It is unclear who the target audience is and what use cases are you solving? Is it for product managers, developers or support teams?

It looks like it is targeting developers since some of the value prop is towards continuous delivery, security config etc. IMO, I don't see a strong use case for developers to use external config management. On the other hand, I believe that you should target Product Managers - Consumer PMs who run high number of experiments (e.g. weekly) and B2B PMs who manage high degree of configurations / customer due to the nature of B2B software . Their use cases require flexible configuration management and building it in-house is generally expensive. Few use cases that I can think about - A/B or multi-variate testing, control user flow (new user onboarding, feature intro, profile wizard etc), early access to feature, control access to features based on user profile/pricing tier etc. To solve these use cases, development teams will need to build/maintain massive config systems and thus opportunity cost is significantly high for PMs.

If you can highlight value/effort between build/buy, majority of Product Managers will influence their development teams to use an external configuration system. The best analog I can come up is how heap.io and amplitude.com sell their software. They sell to product managers but their product requires engineering teams to embed their code on webpages/apps (and also pass some additional attributes), so that product managers can use their analytics to under the user behavior.

Hope that helps.

Consider next.js framework (https://nextjs.org/) It is also React, but can be rendered on the server-side. It will come important for you for SEO reasons if you want to build a forum like Reddit.

Alternatively, look for ready-made forum software that you can modify to your need.

There are a lot of starter examples and repositories to poke around at and learn. And the development process is quite easy in new versions.

First step before you spend money and time on developing the MVP (Minimum Viable Product), you need to get validation within your target market. There are a couple of ways to do this. First, fake the app with powerpoint or a fake app generator like https://marvelapp.com/pop/. Second, show this to your target market. Literally give it to them to test out and get feedback from them. Show the value proposition within the app and how you will monetize. You can also use survey software to develop questions and screenshots of your product to target your audience. surveys.google.com, mechanical turk and surveymonkey are good options. If you get feedback from your target market that is positive and not influenced by you, you can go into the next stage of developing the MVP on the cheap to prove out the model a bit more.

You should really move the singup form and the tagline to the header, and you should add a clear and larger "call to action".

Same with the footer you have the tagline "Need a Post-Workout Meal? Try this instead of Yelp!" - add a button here as well which would scroll back to the form (for example: "Get early access").

Furthermore I would recommend using https://marvelapp.com for mobile prototyping; also you can now embed your prototype (see details and example here: http://blog.marvelapp.com/you-can-now-embed-marvel-prototypes-into-your-websites-blogs-and-portfolios/). This would be a beautiful replacement for thost plain screenshots.

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In all seriousness, try picking up a framework like django or a stack like mean.io and writing something yourself to test our your ideas then go shopping for a partner. You might find that you can do a lot for yourself and you'll learn a lot about where you want to be as an entrepreneur.

Yes, BaseCamp is the best option.

>When you're working with a client, you don't necessarily want them to see all the work you do behind the scenes. Basecamp lets you create a client side to your project, to keep things off limits.

You can learn more here: https://basecamp.com/help/guides/projects/client-projects

It's also a great platform for team collaboration.

I like the simplicity, but wonder what it's adding to the plentiful amount of existing notetaking apps, sites and browserextensions, plus what would be your revenue model? Who is paying for the cloudspace?

I mostly use https://keep.google.com and found it to be easy and simple, not to bloated, as well.

1) If you don't have at least an LLC, you are personally liable if anything goes wrong.

4) Google around for CRM (customer relationship management) and small business accounting tools. You might like Wave accounting.

5) probably, but IANAL

3 + 6) Try to not compete directly with any existing player, you should try to own a market. Read 'Blue Ocean Strategy', 'Zero to One', or watch this to get a better idea of why that matters and how to do it. You might benefit from filling out a business model canvas.

You might want to also post this in /r/Entrepreneur. The difference between a startup and a new small business, is that startups have the potential for sustained exponential growth. What you're working on is a new small business. That community is a lot more active, and a lot less snooty about the startup/small business distinction.

1. It might be good to login with LinkedIn to verify the date of the project and employer at the time. Either way, third-party logins trump another site's password.
2. I suspect the conversion rate is low as you ask to sign up without providing any real reason to do so. More proof is required to pass the sign-up hurdle if you are an unknown quantity. Take a look at https://dribbble.com/ - tons of areas to 'learn more' prior to conversion.
3. Even though I joined, I couldn't get past the sign-up page where I have to agree "Review Your Settings" - there is no button or checkbox that I can see. Correction - apparently the contrast was so low between an empty checkbox and the background color that I couldn't see it until the hover-over icon changed.
4. No filtering or faceting on left panel navigation, would be cool to sort by industry or content type.

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I'm extremely familiar with Stripe. What I'm getting at, as mentioned in my other comment. Is that Stripe is not only expected to track that and store that information for the purposes of facilitating the payment, they are also PCI compliant. So in essence, when you're entering your card information into a field on a page, in nearly all cases, that's Stripe's UI element.

https://stripe.com/gb/guides/pci-compliance#how-stripe-helps-organisations-achieve-and-maintain-pci-compliance

Absolutely. Don't overthink it, it's pretty easy to get started and most laws (or at least lawyers willing to prosecute you) don't kick in until after you become relatively successful anyways. Here's the de facto tech startup gameplan course created by Steve Blank, the creator of the business model canvas and the mentor of the creator of the lean model canvas (Stanford course really well produce and 100% free):

https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245

Dynamic MRR sounds good. Indiehackers do it (https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=stripe). You've to verify it from Stripe or something to dynamically change.

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Go with a minimalist look for a startup.

Download GIMP. It's free.

Type in your startup name. Make it high-res by making the canvas super huge (3000x3000) and you got yourself a clean logo until you have money from your startup.

1. Get yourself a Google My Business page if you haven't already. It's a way to tell Google you're the right answer for the search term asking for musical instruments in your area.
2. Next hire a local SEO guy who will make sure you will rank #1 on the Google My Business box. You can DM me if you need a recommendation otherwise UpWork is good.
3. Invest in paid keywords. It's a no brainer
4. Build buying guides or assembling guides or any kind of useful content that will position you as the expert in your area. Then invest in SEO to make sure these articles rank and you get traffic
5. Make a Facebook Group called "Miami Musicians" or whatever area you live in. Grow this community by adding friends, family later on it will become the local music group, you can do exclusive deals here. Alternatively if any of these groups already exist partner up with the admins to do a paid post or you can just normally be helpful and post.
6. Partner up with local bands and musicians for free repairs on their instruments in exchange for marketing. Put stickers on their guitar or make them wear a certain t-shirt. Just don't overdo it
7. Check meetup.com for existing groups of your target audience that meets up each month. You can sponsor these events or host your own event regarding something they'd like.
   "How to buy the right equipment for the cost etc"
8. Music Schools, Music Teachers, and people who have the authority as refined musicians, partner up with them as people take their recommendation very highly.
9. Make sure you have a proper offer, a website and other collaterals that communicate your value, and convert people into foot traffic no matter where they come from.

Qualitative research! Set up a simple survey on a site like SurveyMonkey that asks questions including how people shop, what genres they prefer, and most recent favorite game. Since you're still in the idea phase, you need to find outlets like r/gaming, and start a facebook page that just asks people to share their likes and dislikes. Focus on making those first connections through a single central outlet like facebook, then think about what social media platforms would work well for your goals.

Down the road, you'll need to think about licensing and competition with outlets like Steam, HumbleBundle, and Origin, so try to include questions about use of other services. Finally, look at things like LootCrate, a subscription box service for niche gamer paraphernalia, which may be similar to what you want to do.

Finally, social media management takes avid notetaking! Don't get rid of old plans and surveys you've made until you can get the most out of the lessons from this venture. It's likely that this won't be your first.

Good luck!

The API provides a flexible back end for tracking your customers and their referral scores. Each time a customer's referral link gets clicked and successfully "convert" another person, the customer and that person each gets a +1. We don't deal with or decide how to reward customers -- you do! You're in control of everything else.

That's how we're different. We don't bundle up and productize. We just provide tools for you to build a great referral marketing campaign.

Happy to chat more on Slack or schedule a call.

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It's this just a copy of Fluent? You even used the same slogan. It's getting really out of hand with all those copies. Are you even sure, this will be valuable in the future? I apologize if this comes around a bit harsh. Just feels like there was no effort behind it. Even the domain seems copied. Please make some more effort to differentiate from Fluent.

No offense, but I think it depends on the mindset. Let me explain, if you think before 2010, at that time every company has to build their own payment system which took a lot of time and money, but in 2010 stripe came which changed the whole payment system and now most tech companies including Google, Uber, Amazon, and many others are using their services.

Now, think if that problem was uploaded on Voxup it would be a great help for those companies as well as for entrepreneurs also.

Just trying to convince you. Thank You.

In this scenario, you'll want to have a single source of truth for authentication (ie, not have a database holding user data on your wordpress site, then another different db on your saas, and try to sync across both, which will quickly turn into a nightmare). The best practice here would most probably be to implement authentication on the saas side, then expose an authentication provider, so that your website can authenticate users too (If this is even needed. I'd just direct users to the SaaS from the moment they try to register, but there may be something specific about your needs.). OAuth is the most widely spread standard for doing this. For payments the most efficient solution is usually to deal with a provider like Stripe. You definitely do not want to store credit card numbers on your own database.

I’m glad you checked them out.

Here is the link on anchor.

https://anchor.fm/bootstrap-marketing

From there you can check our all the other channels the podcast is on.

I’m also on Instagram if that’s easier for you

@bootstrap_marketing_podcast

Either way I really appreciate you taking the time to listen. Thank you.

Matteo

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Sorry, I'm not so familiar with Wordpress or any type of website building. How can I roll out a wordpress on my own? I understand how to use Wordpress.com, but not how to do it on my own.

Currently, I'm looking for a way to make a website without having to pay too much initially. I just want to experiment building a site. It would be nice to have something to show to family and friends - to recieve feedback. I'm also thinking about booking a meeting with a start-up advisor. Since I'm young it is free! Then it would be neat to have something to present.

Cheers!

Hi,

The overall layout and design of your site is great!!!

One thing that comes to mind right off the bat is your main goal of having a visitor build a handbook is not clearly defined in the header. The reason for this is you want a site visitor to have the goal in front of them throughout your site. You want it to be a click away. In this manner even going past your pricing section and even on your blog that visitor knows what you want them to do.

Another thing I would put in is some Call to Action within your blog. If a user finds your blog organically or through a social share there is not a clearly defined path to building a handbook on those pages. Granted you will get less conversions from your blog but again you want a visitor to easily get to building a handbook.

Finally I would use a heatmap service with a free trial. This will help you find places where visitors are dropping off. You will want to answer the following questions with heatmaps * How far are my visitors scrolling throughout the page? This will help you know the drop-off point of your home page

• What are the most clicked on menu items? This will help you know if your Build a Handbook menu link is effective

• Are my internal links effective? For example are people clicking on the links beneath the pricing section that say "Generate your handbook now"

With that information you can get a better view on how to guide visitors to accomplishing that conversion on your website.

For the heatmapping service I have used hotjar which has a nice free model to get started

I hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions

I would not invest to much in researching what your competitors are doing and instead try to find your own solutions. If you really must there are many platforms that can help you, for example semrush.com.

I know that there is also a side that lets you view all graphical ads for a domain. Unfortunately I cannot recall the name - we used it a few years ago.

It's could be a mix of posting on reddit/HN/other sites, some cold emailing/DMing users on Twitter, and getting featured on sites like BetaList.com. There's could be a small stream of traffic from this, but you could start here. Make your value offering clear on the landing page with a clearer call-to-action and more login buttons.

Someone found our project (probably through twitter) and submitted it to ProductHunt - it got featured that day to the No.4 spot as far as I remember. We weren't ready for this amount of traffic so had to scramble. Ended up with about 200 users that day. This was a while ago - link to the submission: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/markd-2

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Hi. I'm a repeat founder and I also am passionate about protecting mental health. You cannot be effective if you are not in a healthy place mentally.

Eat well and get sleep. Studies have shown that job performance suffers after 50 hours of work in a week. There is nothing noble about working 14 hour days. You're only hurting yourself and your team. Find activities to do to separate yourself from work. Ideally, do something that moves your body. I rock climb and I do yoga to help ground me.

I read this article yesterday about the culture at ProductBoard and how they support the mental health of their employees. If there are ways that you can implement any of these into your organization for yourself or your team, you will be providing a tremendous benefit to everyone.

https://www.productboard.com/blog/supporting-mental-health/

I care about this so much that I recently became an equity partner in a telemental health startup. They're only licensed in a couple of states in the midwest, but if you want to talk to someone who has been through this or want some direction on available resources, please feel free to DM me.

1. Trello is decent though I actually don't mind the issue mgmt built into gitlab, both free. Also used Redmine for years, also free.
2. Never used any, maybe look at some open source you can host yourself like https://www.espocrm.com/features/
3. Mediawiki does the job and it's also free.
4. Weworked we used quite a few years for billing, time tracking, expense tracking, invoicing. Not free but pricing is reasonable.

Have you tried Upwork.com? You can frame yourselves are more of a full service solution as opposed to a singular developer or just a development firm. Let potential clients you can provide marketing and development solutions, etc.

I assume you have a goal (revenue, user count, something else), and whatever your goal is, you need people using your product to achieve that goal.

u/dexx4d mentioned creating a business model. I think that's a good idea, but don't spend too much time on it.

One thing that's helped me move from having a side project to starting a business is getting other people involved. Depending on how serious you are I might recommend you hire a marketing consultant. Ask them to do some market research. Find out who your competitors are (if you haven't already). I assume you have thoughts on where your revenue will come from; ask for their thoughts on it. Ask them to help you articulate your value proposition, your target customer profile, etc. There are lots of freelancer sites (I use Upwork.com) where you can pay a reasonable amount and get some work done.

If you're not looking to spend money just yet, find a mentor to help answer this type of question. This should be a person who is at a point or close to a point that you're trying to get to. Meet with them regularly to keep yourself accountable and focused (I meet with my mentor every other week).

Whatever you do though, getting other people involved will go a long way toward getting traction and momentum.

It likely already exists in some sort of form, but might not be exactly what you're looking for.

Here is BigOven, they let you lookup new recipes based on your leftovers. Could work.

Between $0 and $10 million.

Seriously though, this question lacks substance and there is a variety of factors here.

We have an application being developed for our company and are paying a blended rate of $115/hour. When you use the term design, it’s vague, as workflow/processes could be attributed to this. I’d say probably 60-80 hours was spent specifically on designing layouts and making the mock-ups for what we needed. Further, the adage “form follows function” holds true. Your design can evolve based on how the product is to be used.

Their UX person presented us mock ups on Zeplin and that was the first time I had heard of this tool. Something like this may be worth your time.

helpful hack to get great cheaper logo's. Might take a while to find though.

1. Go to the professional websites the design community is on.
2. Then look for terms "unused" "logo" and buy them at a discounted price.

(for example https://dribbble.com/search?q=animal+logo+unused

or http://logopond.com/search/?search=unused%20logo%20design)

Hope that helps!

canva.com is free to use and is super helpful in creating things for branding, marketing, selling, promotion, etc. i have photoshop and AI but I use canva to spitball ideas since it's so easy to use.

This is a really good helpful idea for musicians, there are already some solutions like this where he can find some ideas: http://tradiio.com Good luck for your friend hope he get the investment that he needs.

Thanks for ideas! yes sure you can try it on https://www.lalal.ai - just upload any audio file to extract voice or instrumentals, however it works with background noise as well.

Or you can use a professionally audited, open-source, free, password manager: https://keepassxc.org/

This one stores locally you data so that you can choose whatever method you prefer to backup the vault (on the cloud, off-line, RAID, ...)

It also lets you configure the password derivation method which can be hardened at the cost of more delay while you open it (but it will also be longer for attackers which is what you want in the end).

Great product! I see you have some feedback about the website, so I will write a couple of tips for growing AutoDigg business.

1) Research your competition more. Either it's a local or international competitor. Use SimilarWeb to see and compare other online business strategies and what you can adapt to your startup.

2) Work on collaboration with other corporations. It helps to speed up the growth of the business or implement your idea in a bigger business market.

3) Don't forget about data and its innovation. It can really fasten your development as a growing service. You can find more information in this article about data-driven innovation.

Hope you find something valuable!

I could suggest to analyse the current marketing flow of your competitors thorough sites like https://www.similarweb.com

Analysing the data you're able to understand what are the main marketing channels they're currently using. Hope this makes sense.

If it's a new business, but you think you cannot make a good looking DIY website with Squarespace, WIX or something like that you can use Weblium.com, these guys are doing websites fast and with a small budget (less then $1k). But that's possible only if there is no custom functionality like CRM integrations, custom calculators. Anyway, approach them, they will tell you if they can help or not.

hey thanks!

In between clients/customers/other SaaS, i spend this past month on it. Two weeks of my time, I'd estimate.

You'll need to be a "full stack" developer / designer to be able to do this by yourself, at least to some degree. For the front end, you'll need to know (roughly) - html, css, js - understanding how to communicate back/forth with your server - build tools (your preference) for the front end. - ability to create that server, and manage it on the backend. I uses Nodejs, built on top of Firebase (check out firebase functions hello world for some beginner projects)

I think that Svelte's tutorial [1] is also fantastic at teaching.. It's going to walk you through the basics of how to use Svelte, but it does assume you know HTML, CSS, and a littl bit of vanilla JS.

[1] https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics

With no capital you're probably going to have to find a technical co-founder who's going to build it. You're going to have to give them a pretty good reason to work with you for free instead of getting a job at a well established business throwing stacks of money at them (IT professionals are well paid in general). You could find an IT student or someone who's not that experienced (but knows more than yourself) but with no money it might still be tricky to convince them to work for free. There are some programmes here and other platforms (like indie hackers) who are looking for a project to join. I don't know how easy it is to find one, but I myself am pretty picky when it comes to finding a project this way because for me, I must feel very convinced by the project, its potential to make money and how much I like the idea. Whatever your going to do, if you're serious about it then start with a design. Wireframes showing each screen so that you can guide developer through functionality and the flow of the application are going to be necessary. If you can, a simple mock up would be even better (there are free tools like https://marvelapp.com/). As a programmer I can give you some general advice (regarding the programming side of things) so DM me if you have any questions.

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The site is a little bit weight and slow this difficult the navigation, try to solve the pagespeed insight issues: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=pt-BR&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsockseed.com%2F&amp;tab=desktop

I'm not sure I can be much help, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that a no-code platform like Bubble.io is a good trade-off between coding up an MVP, and wireframing it only.

You'd better describe your idea :) Many words, zero meaning.

How to prove the idea:

1. Form a short description. You can use Notion or build a simple Landing page with constructor
2. Speak with potential users, try to understand their pains, keep them in CRM
3. Make mockups, speak again
4. Build a simple prototype. You can use Bubble.io for it
5. Try to sell

There are pages without links placed in sitemap like /contact/ , /home/

Serwer response time is around 700ms on most pages and it is slow.

There are some Hellow word pages in portfolio and blog posts

There are links to non-existing images like Pinehills_SC-01-300x240.jpg

https://www.pulno.com/shared/a5a82e58d7c10667 - there are some other issues in SEO report

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Sure. I think it's the biggest problem to build a cloud formation for data scientists.

Let's say you need to scrap data from a website, clean it, check it and put it to MongoDB. Then pull it to SQL DB to be extracted with your web application.

You log in in this service, add block-functions like "SQL DB", a couple of blocks called "service". Import code if needed, set up dependencies and if you wish set up limits.

Press button "Deploy" and everything is on your cloud (AWS, GCP, whatever).

Or, another case

You select a structure for your use from a library like on Miro.com, adapt it for your needs, make changes and deploy.

This Wappalyzer?

AFAIK there's nothing to be accepted, it just attempts to detect which tech is being used on a website and returns the list. From my experience it doesn't do a particularly great job and frequently reports "high load" when making request for less known (non-cached, I'm assuming) sites.

startups don't have the resources to teach you, unless somehow you end up finding a garage startup who has no plans on launching in the next 10 years.

Not sure how you can have a 3 year gap because of a failed bootcamp, sounds kind of weird but that's not really important. You can always say that you decided to get your mind cleared and wanted to see the world so you decided to go travel.

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If you have something you're interested in learning take the extra time you have and learn that. Go to meetups, network and there might be someone there willing to teach you. I can't think of many companies that will hire you, and just pay you to learn from scratch.

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In short figure out what you want to do first and then expand on that. Thousands of free resources online one that my friend used was https://www.freecodecamp.org/

Hey! So I researched a little bit and discovered you can create native apps with C++ so that could be your best bet! I don't know C++, the TrueAge app is actually native swift and java for Android but there's so many ways to do an app. I was going to recommend react native because of the fact that you can refactor a lot of the code for Android and IOS but for you I'd look at the C++ way first. Here's a good starting point: Visual Studio would allow you to write an IOS/Android app with c++: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/cplusplus-mdd/ If that doesn't work for you I'd seriously check out React Native, there's tons of resources on that... Let me know if you have any questions!

Take a look at IndieHackers “looking to partner up” group. There’s always folks there looking for technical co-founders: https://www.indiehackers.com/group/looking-to-partner-up

you can join and post there too

Hey, I'm not yet a blogger but i wanted to write some day. So while I was doing my research about the available platforms, I got to know about Ghost. Didn't get chance to go deep in to it. But it looks cool & they claim they have SEO build in to their platform, ofc it's Open Source. May be something similar to your idea

There's one time tracking / project management tool - DeskTime with very similar features (except invoicing). Tried using that, but honestly, as a freelancer myself and a hardcore mulitasker, time tracking never works for me, since I usually do various tasks simultaneously. Can't rely on the tracked data anyway.

I host a 3 hour co-working session on Saturdays that I find helpful. Been a solopreneur for 5 months now

- Hang out with up to 10 people, share what you are working on for the day.

- We then work on our own or team up with others if help is needed.

- At the end of the session we share what we accomplished.

If you are interested in joining just use this link https://calendly.com/pete-oliveira/digital-product-makers-online-cowork

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Hey cool idea. It might be worth checking out clickup.com and monday.com as they have a similar lists of lists concept to building out arbitrary business processes. I'm currently using clickup to do some light roadmap/story planning work in a more flexible way.

What are you going to do that Slack doesn't? What pain point in Slack are you going to resolve? It may not even be an app feature, it could be an easier sales process or a different marketing. How is it going to be better?

In the book Getting Real (from the guys are 37 Signals, it's free, https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real) there's advice when building your startup - Pick an enemy. If you really want to compete with a popular product like Slack then figure out what you don't like about that product. Be the antidote to that product.

https://basecamp.com/shapeup may be a very good read for you--because one of the more important problems in making the MVP is just knowing how to track where you are in making it. Because you're already using an offshore this is probably even more important.

Been building apps professionally for nearly a decade, specifically iOS. The answer is, it depends...

Look at Basecamp.com. Their pricing is the same for everyone no matter the size of your company. Are you building an app and trying to make money with some sort of in app purchase? Are you selling on the store or selling with an enterprise distribution build?

We are using a Team folder in Google drive because you can live-collaborate within files. This can be really powerful. You can pull up a new sheet in a (remote) meeting and everybody joins in.

Regarding file management I think the approach is more important than the actual tool. Here is a guide we found helpful https://zapier.com/blog/organize-files-folders/

Take a look at the incubators/accelerators you can start applying to. Get some validation points under your belt. It’s going to be a rough ride.

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Hello everyone! My friends and I have been working on an app in the real estate space and I would love for you to try it out. We’re in the early testing phase so please download the app and give me as much feedback as you can. Here is the iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/realme/id1580642811 and the android link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.realmeproperty.realme. Please also share it with your friends and family!

Hello everyone! My friends and I have been working on an app in the real estate space and I would love for you to try it out. We’re in the early testing phase so please download the app and give me as much feedback as you can. Here is the iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/realme/id1580642811 and the android link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.realmeproperty.realme. Please also share it with your friends and family!

Yep, read Zero to One a few weeks ago. Not a fan if I am honest.

I feel Peter Thiel is slightly pessimistic - I just don't get a good vibe off his writing.

Anyway, here is the video replying to your earlier message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wTuZb1-Oc0&amp;feature=youtu.be

Talk soon,

Flo

Hey. I look forward to your next video.

Have you read Zero to One by Peter Thiel?

He makes some interesting points. For example, he argues that the most successful companies are really monopolies in disguise, that their product is so much better than the competition's that for all intents and purposes they stand alone. He says that for a start up to be successful the product should be at least ten times better than the next competitor's product in order to differentiate itself and make a dent in the market.

What do you think?

Personally, I did not see the ideas that I had as ten times better than the next competitor's so I did not pursue them further. Maybe I'll think it over some more if I continue to not think of anything new.

SaaS is called software-as-a-service as a result of how software used to be deployed in the old days. In the past, you'd install an app on your computer to do productivity oriented stuff. Think Microsoft Office, or Quickbooks or Outlook Express (shudder).

Things changed as the price of computing became lower, and bandwidth cheaper. You could "stream" your app through the internet and own the product (and make changes to it on the fly!). Providers like mail.com, salesforce.com and others exploded. So software was now a service that companies delivered as opposed to software that you owned, thus SaaS.

Under the SaaS model, a user logs in and "does" stuff, and people pay a recurrent subscription model to do that thing. Sending a joke isn't really SaaS so much as it is an ecommerce transaction (you give me X$ and i'll give you Y).

That being said, trust no one here that tells you a hard figure. No one here knows your market like your market knows itself. In other words, what you really need to do is learn to do customer development.

The question that you asked is "kinda" customer development except that it's not because your audience is unqualified, and your question way, way, way too vague.

Do yourself a favour and go and read Eric Ries's "The Lean Startup". It'll help you to learn to qualify your leads, ask the right questions to figure out if (and how) your ACTUAL customers would pay to use your service, etc.

IMO, any other answer is going to be a feel good "pat on the back" answer.

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