• by csallen on 8/23/2016, 3:38:02 PM

    There are lots of examples on my site IndieHackers.com of people building up a side project from nothing. In general, they seem to do two things in the beginning.

    First, they spend lots of time talking to everyone they can: friends, family, coworkers, people in their online communities, people at conferences, etc. This is not scalable in the long-run, but very helpful in the beginning to kick things off. Paul Graham has written about this extensively: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

    Second, the more successful founders find good distribution channels. They find app stores, online marketplaces, partnerships, etc that constantly put their product in front of lots potential customers. Easier said than done, of course, but the first step is just being aware of that approach.

  • by twa927 on 8/23/2016, 6:35:19 PM

    My reflections as a potential beta-user:

    - the price is very high - the $89 plan will be sufficient for a small website only!

    - why only javascript analytics when I also have server requests?

    - the dashboard looks nice

    - the website could contain more information - seems too plain for a paid product - a documentation link, company data

    Overall, even if the price was lower I don't think I would use the product. It looks like it gives some functionality of more focused tools (like Sentry for error notification) but doesn't look sufficiently advanced.

    To do what your product does I use Sentry (error notification) plus parsing of Nginx logs + metrics in a database for timing data.

    I hope my remarks are helpful!

  • by tedmiston on 8/23/2016, 5:17:20 PM

    I think the best way to start user acquisition is to find other people that have the problem you have / had, and ask them to try it unrestricted. I would remove any notion of plans and pricing at this point until you've validated that it works for quite a few other people.

  • by Zekio on 8/23/2016, 1:52:42 PM

    Nice, having logins while not using Https.

    EDIT: Failed at english.