Search results

@marc123 Yes, they simply stop using the product, they are redirected to a payment screen. What happens if the trial would be 3 days long? The same thing would happen.

@forgivenacceptedsaved Can't disclose, I wouldn't be able to disclose the real numbers.

@truescience4ever Genuinely asking - how are you getting people to pay you when you have nothing to offer - just a promise. I can't get people to pay when I have a lot to offer. How big of a problem do I have to solve for people to pay me for a product that doesn't exist yet? Do you believe...

@oyinkan Direct Google Hackernews Various Directories

@truescience4ever Yeah, this is the difference. How do you explain no paying customers though with all this interest and organic visitors?

@reenmatty Right. It's something that doesn't scale, and this is what this post is exactly about - how we got our first two paying customers - by doing something that doesn't scale. Paul Graham has a good article about this: https://paulgraham.com/ds.html

@truescience4ever This IS the validation. If I would've built the landing page only, collected thousands of emails (remember that we have 700 people signed up), no one would've bought it either. What's the difference?

Forgot to mention in the original post that one of the calls was with a team from Amazon, and another one with a big transportation company.

@baloyij The first one want to use it for themselves. The second company wants to use it to serve some of their clients.

@joyfulspirit68 Yes, no feedback when I asked, I'll have to ping them again soon...

@apachedog Well, isn't the SaaS a business as well? Why can't I use it daily for my own business?

Forgot to mention, its a B2B product

@fattony00 Thank you, this is exactly what I plan to do, I wrote a comment about this.

@thomass I'll try to post some updates here, but keep it confidential because only in this way I can share the real numbers.

Thank you for all the replies, I really appreciate it and thank you for understanding my decision to stay anonymous. After some thought and after reading some ideas here, I decided what to do next. I will try to understand what's wrong with the current flow, why users are not upgrading, here's...

@racarvalho Yes, I understand. Thank you for your suggestions!

@thomass I said that we have to get the customers one way or another. We will "force" them to use it if necessary. We're getting now around 4-5 calls a week, which means around 20 demos, we've got ~13 free trials, and 2 conversions. We needed this to make sure that the product solves a...

@racarvalho yes, I guess you're right

@inquiringmama Got it, I will look into it

@613jono This is what we plan to do. Not sure whether to offer a free 7-day trial or not.