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Poll: Which of these features would you consider delegating to an SAAS product?

21 points| wolfrom | 15 years ago | reply

Would your startup consider using a service that provides Launch Pages, Beta Testing, and Feature Rollouts? We are working on a product that is meant to handle all aspects of product launches and feature rollouts. The product would be free for startups until they reach a significant (ie, high) level of traction. Would you be interested in any of the following features for your startup?

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[+] Silhouette|15 years ago|reply
Just as a data point for you, this poll sounds like you are using various terminology in specific ways that are perhaps meaningful in the context of your service, but it is not clear to me (as a guy running a startup) what practical functionality you are offering, how it might integrate with our other functionality, and what benefit there might be in using your service rather than something integrated into our own.

FWIW, my instinctive reaction is that these sound like minor features where the hassle of integrating an external service would far outweigh any benefits. However, if you could provide some sort of examples/cases studies to give some more detail about what you're offering, perhaps I would get a different impression.

[+] wolfrom|15 years ago|reply
The concept we are working from is creating an API and possibly an embedded JavaScript to analyze the data and to provide updates, alerts and reporting. The plan is to make integration for tracking users as simple as possible to implement, while allowing for heavier customization for alerts and feature control if desired.

Where we've started from is that we have a product that we're going to be releasing in the next few weeks, and we felt that not only did we need to develop beta/release functionality, but that we would need it for several successor products that we will be developing. Rather than creating a compiled component, we thought that an API-based tool would give us more flexibility in future platforms and in sharing the features with others.

Like all other delegation, if we can't provide more benefit than you'd be able to develop for an equal or lesser cost, we're not worth it. But from the work we've done so far, we believe that we can make the process more efficient for startups.

That may not be enough specific info for the moment, but we will be fleshing that out more in the coming weeks. Thank you very much for your feedback.

[+] jaymstr|15 years ago|reply
Looks like the launch page is a big deal. Glad to see it. We're also thinking much down the same path.

If anyone here wants a launch page from LaunchRock, email me at [email protected], and I'll get you hooked up ASAP.

Just mention this HN thread.

By the way, the launch page method works consistently. We're collecting tons and tons of data that I can't wait to share with the community.

[+] maxklein|15 years ago|reply
All sound very complicated apart from the first two. I'd use the first two, but only if they were free. As soon as the app launched, I'd get rid of them too.
[+] fauigerzigerk|15 years ago|reply
I would not pay for any of these services and a startup that already has traction is unlikely to need them.
[+] DarrenLehane|15 years ago|reply
> similar to Rockmelt's beta

I think you mean LaunchRock.

[+] wolfrom|15 years ago|reply
LaunchRock was inspired the initial launch of Rockmelt... I don't know if that's the source of the name. Rockmelt was the first app I know of that successfully allowed users to climb higher on the wait list by performing actions to increase app virality.