The branding concept of multiple mini projects is great. It shows that you're able to deliver consistently and work on a variety of ideas in a short period of time. I think he's probably got the best idea for how an mvp should work. Sooner or later he has to hit onto a success by pure stupid luck or genius.
Thanks :) that's the idea. I'm still at the point where I'm trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. That's why I've concentrated my efforts on doing a lot of small projects. I feel like if I keep doing a lot of different projects one has to work. And I think I may have found that with DomainPolish. Even though, as angryasian pointed out, there are already competitors. I think competitors in a small or new market are sign of proof that the concept works rather than a reason not to do something.
My way of figuring ou what people want is to take a look at contracting jobs and etc from people and companies. They'll ask for similar features or projects and then I try to fill that need.
Wow.. I'm getting trolled by the same person. lol. You can only lose 1 point per person, so the same person is trolling my posts. Interesting how they're going about this without any dialogue.
3 or 4 articles from/about Dan shipper and his product this week is starting become spam IMO. Maybe the problem with your product is that there's too much competition at better price points. While there are probably many people that will try it out, and continue to use it or even possibly in conjunction with his services, I'm getting a bad impression of Dshipper and his product for over spamming the community. Also your market is hard, because of services like dribbler and forrst designers may look to these communities first for feedback and as a programmer I've already created a script for my personal usage and imagine others have too. Look for other ways to spread the word of your service.
Hey angryasian thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear, I didn't ask for this post to be written, or submitted to HN. But I'm really sorry you feel that way. It's honestly not my intention to spam the community. Every article that I've posted has been to share my experiences with the people on here and to get their thoughts/criticism about what I'm doing. I'm not an evil spammer from a country you can't pronounce. I'm a UPenn student who knows how to program and is trying to make it at startups. The beauty of Hacker News is that it's very hard to get anywhere if you aren't contributing anything valuable. The greatest part is that if I've stopped providing that with my posts they will never make the front page because people will recognize that and not upvote them. I would love to talk to you more about the competition in the market, your thoughts on Hacker News and anything else you want to talk about. My Skype is dshipper and my email address is dan@danshipper.com. My Google Voice number is (213)-784-0273. Get in touch any time :)
lets not be naive here, we all know you have your own upenn network or PSL up voting your stories to a point where they get noticed. Many other startups have came through here doing the same thing. Again I'm not against startups or helping people, I am against people spamming the community.
You are entirely correct. Dan's product does have competition, and maybe the other products do have better price points. We have talked about these other offerings before our lunch discussion. Other people have mentioned this point to Dan already.
However, this post was not about Dan's product specifically, but it was about what I learned from him while he and I were talking over lunch. I did reference what Dan was doing a lot in the post, I will agree, but you could apply these ideas to pretty much any project a person works on.
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other sites doing very similar things
pickfu.com
usertesting.com
feedbackarmy.com
You are entirely correct. Dan's product does have competition, and maybe the other products do have better price points. We have talked about these other offerings before our lunch discussion. Other people have mentioned this point to Dan already.
However, this post was not about Dan's product specifically, but it was about what I learned from him while he and I were talking over lunch. I did reference what Dan was doing a lot in the post, I will agree, but you could apply these ideas to pretty much any project a person works on.