sawyer1708's comments

Maybe you could talk to a few of your best customers. This is often an overlooked source.

Launch in closed Beta. Be upfront with the customers that you accept in your Beta program. They can be extremely forgiving with bugs as long as you inform them before hand and especially if there is no alternative to your service.

Choose the best 10 customers for a Beta 1 - and go through a rapid phase of issue fixing. Then increase the number of customers for Beta 2 by another 10. Continue in this fashion till all your issues have been fixed.

It is deemed unprofessional to give your notice over email. As Uhhrrr said, do it over the phone (since meeting your boss is not possible) as a matter of courtesy.

Also, you seem pretty sure about wanting to quit. In case you are not sure, a simple discussion/negotiation with your boss might be better than to just give your notice.

That's great Dan. I have a couple of questions.

Do you have an in house affiliate program that you use or a third party one? How did you get affiliates interested (other than existing customers)?

Your target audience (Experts, SME, anyone with followers) is too wide a category. Try and start with a specific niche. Visit forums about the niche. Participate there and post your website. See if people start using it and continue to do so.

Clickable - http://www.faqrobo.com/

Its kinda hard to figure out how a chat works when you don't have anyone on the other end to chat with. I created a chat on your site, but I'm not gonna be sharing this with my friends unless I know this is good and I won't know if this is good unless I share it with my friends. See the twenty-two.

Some suggestions for your fellas.

1. Have a demo video or screenshots of how the chat app works.

2. Create a chat, and link the URL of the chat with a button on the home page that says - Chat with us. Try to get someone on your team to be always online monitoring this chat. Its the best way to sell this to your customers.

Hi. Just saw this by chance. I'm going to get HN Notify setup so that I do not miss any more receive replies.

I cannot quite figure out what the issue is. I am not shadow banned, but it looks like my submissions got caught in the HN Spam filter. What's really surprising is that the submission was a simple Ask HN with no links pointing to an external site. The topic does not seem irrelevant either. Maybe I should post this as an Ask HN.

I'm using a 3 year old T510. Same Config as yours. Lenovo build quality is simply amazing. I'm really really rough with it and its still in one piece.

Speaking as someone who built something and constantly delayed launching due to the same fears, I have to say that I regret not simply launching and doing away with the pre-launch jitters.

For some reason when you launch your app/website you feel that you are putting yourself out there for the rest of the world to judge, and fear being judged and humiliated. Just work through this, launch and get it over with. You will have critics, bad feedback, but you will be one step closer to your goal. Trust me - bad feedback is way better than no feedback

If you are looking at the other extreme - i.e extremely cheap VPS - check out http://lowendbox.com/ - you can get some pretty decent ones for $10 a year