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| 00:58.58 | jkakar | lifeless: New fluidinfo.com is up if you're curious. :) |
| 01:06.08 | lifeless | jkakar: looking |
| 01:09.22 | lifeless | jkakar: interesting that you have a twitter sign in on the front page |
| 01:09.28 | lifeless | jkakar: but nothing telling me why I should do that |
| 01:10.19 | jkakar | lifeless: Yeah, we need to improve that. The introductory text has been through many iterations, but it's hard to describe what Fluidinfo is about in two short paragraphs. :/ |
| 01:10.48 | jkakar | lifeless: Basically, Twitter is the first data source we're pull comments from... we'll be adding more. We find comments that are about things (initially hashtags and URLs) and group them together with those things. |
| 01:10.58 | lifeless | jkakar: perhaps only ask for a signin at the point it adds value ? |
| 01:11.01 | jkakar | lifeless: You can go and find the things you care about (#devops, for example) and follow it. |
| 01:11.21 | jkakar | lifeless: Well, the call to action on the first page is to get you to login so you can see what it's about... but the introductory text needs more love. :) |
| 01:12.16 | lifeless | jkakar: surely you have some anonymous stuff |
| 01:12.20 | lifeless | <PROTECTED> |
| 01:12.29 | jkakar | lifeless: You can go to any page anonymously, but for now we haven't linked that from the public pages. |
| 01:12.56 | jkakar | lifeless: For example, http://fluidinfo.com/about/%23devops |
| 01:13.26 | lifeless | if http://fluidinfo.com/recent/ were the front page |
| 01:13.33 | lifeless | and showed something sensible for anonymous users |
| 01:13.34 | jkakar | lifeless: It's on our todo list to make the site more accessible without requiring login... but one of our challenges is also to get people to contribute, so we really want people to login... but those two things are probably orthogonal. |
| 01:13.37 | lifeless | that might be good :) |
| 01:13.59 | lifeless | offer something valuable when you ask for something :) - build up engagement incrementally |
| 01:14.24 | jkakar | lifeless: Yeah, we've talked about that... the issue is that we're trying to provide information that will entice enterprises to look at us and give us all their money, which is why the public-facing initial webpages are all fairly enterprisey. |
| 01:14.32 | lifeless | there is a bunch of research on these interaction patterns, from e.g. people buying cars (and thus in principle committed up front) through to the lean startup stuff |
| 01:14.37 | jkakar | lifeless: But we're also something quite interesting (hopefully) to consumers. |
| 01:15.02 | lifeless | jkakar: Have you read the lean startup? Or the startup owners manual? You might find them both eye opening. |
| 01:15.02 | jkakar | lifeless: Yeah, I know about a lot of it already... but there's always the tradeoff between making something perfect and shipping something... it's going to get better. :) |
| 01:15.15 | jkakar | lifeless: I've skimmed them, but haven't made the time to really dig in properly. |
| 01:15.21 | lifeless | heh :) |
| 01:15.46 | lifeless | also, carroll on design; you're designing your front page for two segments at the moment - bound to fail :) |
| 01:16.15 | lifeless | http://fluidinfo.com/dashboard/ might be a good approximate landing page for consumers |
| 01:16.47 | jkakar | lifeless: Yeah. We've been talking a lot about the two segment issue and trying to figure out how to do it. |
| 01:17.02 | jkakar | lifeless: Anyway, I appreciate your feedback a lot, nothing is surprising but it's great to hear it. :) |
| 01:17.08 | lifeless | jkakar: hah! ;) |
| 01:17.20 | jkakar | lifeless: Validation, fodder for priorities, etc. :) |
| 01:20.15 | lifeless | indeed |
| 01:20.16 | lifeless | uhm |
| 01:22.06 | lifeless | I'm interested in whether you have a one/two sided business model, what your growth and value hypotheses are etc |
| 01:22.24 | lifeless | but you can pm me for that; it may be getting into internals a bit much :> |
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