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The survey/research is done with explicit opt-in from the founders and all of the viewer data is aggregated and anonymized.

Brutal result after years of work - "a less than $500,000 cash consideration from FullContact, which will be used to facilitate shutdown."

Love this visualization!

This feels like a cold email to the HN community vs. a case study or even outline of what you did to A/B test.

This post is hilarious. Here's the original HN post with 258 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108092

Sounds interesting to me! I write newsletters, blog posts, social media content, and more. Starting from a foundation/ frameworks would help save tons of time. Do you have any kind of prototype yet?

I recommend reading chatbotsmagazine.com/ and researching chatbots on Quora.

I understand the value of life and that it's important to make sure everyone is safe in space missions, but this is an unmanned space organization and it would be RIDICULOUS if SpaceX was grounded for any period of time. They continue to push the boundaries and should be lauded for their accomplishments and less ridiculed for their mission failures. Just my brief opinion....

@w1ntermute We are not the kind of company that will 'disappear when the boom turns to bust'. Despite what you and others may think, we do not just serve startups or various types of investors. We have many enterprise level B2B customers. Our business is NOT built on the backs of small, early stage startups, which we likely won't even sell our product to. Also, if there is a but, it'll be us reporting the trends on it.

@askafriend I work at Mattermark and we have not gone through a 'massive restructuring'. As with any growing startup, some people don't work out, traditionally more sales people vs. other types of employees. We are on a steady hiring trajectory and we have no problem with being transparent as a company. Where did you here we went through a 'massive restructuring"?

This is AWESOME!!!

Great job! This is valuable content.

I'd love to build my brand with your help and infrastructure.

How can I be a beta user? Nick @ StartupLi.st

Those are nothing like SnapChat.

Are you working on this Peter?

I bought all of them with the intention to build something. Obviously I've gotten a bit carried away, so am now downsizing. In my opinion, there's completely nothing wrong with selling a domain name. The reality is that if I don't own it, someone else will. Luckily for the buyer, I'm a nice guy and am not going to severely mark up the price as "professional domainers" would.

So, if you're interested in any of the doors I'm selling, let me know.

You do have the ability to verify your domain. Perhaps in the near future, you won't be able to list domains that aren't verified.

Use Escrow.com. And this is a recently released project with many improvements coming soon.

Yay! Another resource for early traffic.

StartupLi.st, which I created from my tent while on deployment in Afghanistan (crazy!), was an early mover in this space, and has some new features in the pipeline.

Kickoffboost looks pretty cool, and is in the same category as Erlibird, BetaList, KillerStartups, Wikindu, MoMB, StartupLift, etc. It's great to see so many sites looking to help boost the early traffic of very early startups.

Also, Mevvy and Ocitrus are newer resources to showcase your early startup.

All of these resources are recommended to use when looking for exposure and feedback on your early product/ prototype.

Eventually... TechCrunch will be an afterthought when looking for early traffic/ users. Cheers!:)

If you let us know who you are and what company you're working on steering in the right direction, I'm very certain there are people, like me, that would love to help you in any way.

1. I work for a company that can alleviate any back-office pain you have, setting you up on the proper infrastructure, rather than startup blood-sucking solutions like BackOps, TriNet, and Algentis.

2. I have industry connections to help you find mentors, funding, or guidance of any kind.

3. I don't know you, but I am passionate about you. You're a founder and I believe you have great value to offer the world. With this startup or any other you create in your lifetime.

4. You've drummed up great awareness for you and your product with this post, so why not use it to get feedback on your product, with hopes to continue developing something customers want.

That's all I can say. I wish you the best, and hope you're not too discouraged if things don't work out with your current startup. You have the spark. Keep it alive, and build something of value.

Cheers :)

Thanks for the crowdsourced list of great resources for distributing unique content. Yay pageviews and engagement! :D

They have a lot of competition to be the next great tech city.

Advisor is a complete back-office/ operations partner early-stage startups. More cost friendly and scalable than InDinero, BackOps, TriNet, and every other "solution" in the industry.

http://advsor.com

IMO. A good question to think about is.... will this solution scale with my company? It's not proven that it will.

I disagree. Just as many startups fail because they don't have an actual business to be the foundation for their product. It's important to have someone on your team (founder, advisor, investor, or whoever) thinking about how to build a business, as well as someone thinking about the product. If you do, then you're more likely to succeed than if you're just focused on product. IMO.

A great company solving the "Back-office / operations" side of a startup, including HR and benefits management, is Advisor. http://Advsor.com Yeah, the website is being updated, but with clients like Uber, ZeroCater, PandoDaily, Buffer, Expensify, and 70+ more, they are a SOLID solution.

Will you guys be doing the whole startup process or bootstrapping this like Github? If you'd like help with your AngelList page, let me know. I'll help optimize your profile and get you some traction :) I love your product btw!!!!

I suggest we chat about my community of targeted early adopters, that will make TechCrunch and HN user acquisition, a thing of the past. Seriously.

@TheNickFrost