Ask HN: Rate my startup MyRunningMate
An app that provides political campaigns the means to run and manage a virtual phone bank. Once setup, volunteers call a provided phone number which automatically connects them to voters one after another. An accompanying web page allows the volunteer to monitor their calls and report on the outcome of those calls.
Please poke around and try it out. You can test it out without actually contacting voters. No need to fill in real contact info, just make it all up.
Building this app took 16 days. The last three weekends and nights after my day job. Now comes the hard part for me, marketing it. I am going to aim for downballot campaigns. For a few reasons, no one below federal level campaigns use my main competition. I am also hoping the name MyRunningMate will be a container company for several services directed at political campaigns.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 18.3 ms ] threadThe campaign will have to have a voter list already. Most will buy or have access to one via the local party.
I volunteer on a lot of small campaigns (state level) -- we can buy voter list in MA, but that only has name, address -- no phone number. We get phone number from your competitors products.
Party provides data sporadically --- usually only if there's a big election, and not in a downloadable way (through their software). Different states are different, of course, but in MA, that's been my experience.
Yeah, some of the lists would come from the competitor. I'm hoping to offer some services they don't.
application.js: line 2
is all I get -- no JS error when clicking, but only get it if I click the blue button.