fezzl | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
It varies greatly, but most stay for at least 3 months, empirically.
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fezzl | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
Certainly, and growing too.
fezzl | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
Because that's not in our interest long term. If we charge upfront a large amount (and inevitable disincentivize ourselves from providing great support and upgrade to them thereafter -- which are crucial since it's an "extremely difficult" business), we will get negative word of mouth that will not be great for our sales and marketing.
fezzl | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your startup or product?
We are a daily deal platform. We host Groupon clones: http://www.zuupy.com.
fezzl | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some of the key metrics to track after launch?
Traffic, conversion, revenue, margins.
fezzl | 13 years ago | on: Let's get a little louder
He must have been ugly.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: How do you learn Chinese online?
English-Chinese dictionary: http://www.chinese-tools.com
Chinese idiom dictionary: http://www.zdic.net/
Chinese character stroke order dictionary: http://www.visualmandarin.com/tools/chinese-stroke-order/
Traditional to Simplified Chinese translator: http://www.vifo.com.cn/fanti/
Chinese pinyin romanizer: http://translate.google.com
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which startups have nice/normal hours?
Is it just me, or is 40 hours a week possibly too long, even when you're running a startup?
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants some free ideas to advertise their startup?
Hey Chris, I sent you an email. Thanks, you're doing us a good service.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: What keeps you going?
Paying customers. Alternatively, active users. Any form of positive market reaction to what I'm building keeps me going.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
Can you tell me how many hours, minutes, and seconds there are left in the timer on this page? Can you also tell me your timezone? Thanks!
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm an Army of One Man; what title do I use within my company?
Director, Managing Director, or General Manager.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do you contribute to open source?
I don't.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on my valentine's day promo page?
Low hanging fruits: 1) Get some pink in there, 2) less text, 3) orange/red and bigger Add to Cart buttons.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was your first ramen profitable app?
Mine is http://www.zuupy.com, an SaaS daily deal platform.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is a good conversion rate for a landing page?
Our conversion rate for http://www.zuupy.com is around 4%. Out of that 4%, 10% will eventually upgrade to a paid plan, which costs minimum $29.95/mo. So you can say that our conversion rate is 4% or 0.4%, depending what you mean by "conversion".
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are we lacking simplicity cause everyone wants to do it all?
In general, more features are better. What is needed is user interface that organizes the assortment of features in an intuitive and user-friendly way.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How long did it take to get your first customer?
From pivot or from first iteration? If the former, a couple of weeks. If the latter, 5 months.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: Ask: What goal are your working towards?
1) Make US$10,000/mo of subscription payments from my ramen-profitable SaaS startup by the end of next year, and 2) meet a lot of women.
fezzl | 14 years ago | on: I Just Made My First Sale Woooooooooh
PayPal IPN solves this by returning the transaction data to whatever IPN URL that you specify. You can then verify that the correct amount was paid.
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