We're launching a slinkset site next week, thought I'd post to HN and ask people the important question: amidoinitrite?
We looked at just putting it out but thought we'd try and build up a community first through a beta programme. We've had some good feedback but to be fair our choice of beta users wasn't very good. We could've easily have ditched 25 of our 30 beta users and had the same amount of activity.
What we did get from those remaining 5 was all the delicious feedback we could lay our hands on, some of which we've passed on to slinkset.
I've also written to a number of key bloggers in the niche we're working in to promote the site, hopefully you'll see some noise. Slinkset have also been very supportive.
I think if we'd have just thrown it out then it'd have been stillborn. I think the fundamental thing is to have something functional 'enough' and to have some users when you start, then go for the launch. What do others think?
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We're launching a slinkset site next week, thought I'd post to HN and ask people the important question: amidoinitrite?
We looked at just putting it out but thought we'd try and build up a community first through a beta programme. We've had some good feedback but to be fair our choice of beta users wasn't very good. We could've easily have ditched 25 of our 30 beta users and had the same amount of activity.
What we did get from those remaining 5 was all the delicious feedback we could lay our hands on, some of which we've passed on to slinkset.
I've also written to a number of key bloggers in the niche we're working in to promote the site, hopefully you'll see some noise. Slinkset have also been very supportive.
I think if we'd have just thrown it out then it'd have been stillborn. I think the fundamental thing is to have something functional 'enough' and to have some users when you start, then go for the launch. What do others think?