Hello everyone,

I'm doing market research on startup founders so that I can understand and serve their needs better. The form is closed questions only and would take 1 minute of your time. I'd appreciate it if you filled it out.

Thanks!

Interesting idea. At the least it’s always good to see both sides of the coin not just blindly believing one. Not saying one should accept there’s no free will but at least think about it.

Haven’t yet found one myself, but from the information I’ve gathered I see that you can: 1. Go to events where you can meet such people 2. Sign up for different clubs (marketing, tech, etc.) and build strong relationships there though projects. 3. Working at your dayjob, if you see something outstanding you see yourself working with in the future, go the extra mile to show them they mean something to you.

Generally I think it’s all about the buildup after a certain amount of time of working in your industry. And not only 9-5 working but just doing interesting projects and attracting such likeminded people.

damn, straight to the point. thanks! :)

Thanks for the advice! I mean it in the maker spirit yeah. I don't want to write about thing I have no idea about, or haven't done. To be frank, I have the most experience in landing jobs, so I was thinking about niching down to more of a beginner audience. The ones who'd like to enter the market. And considering the state of the job market right now it might be the right time. Who knows, I guess I'll have to post about it to find out :D

Edit: Thanks for that last sentence you wrote. I've noticed I tend to come up with simple stuff for the most part, then I think hmmm... maybe this can become a blog post idea, and then I usually think - it's too simple, obvious, etc. I supposed that the best thing to do is for me to start writing about those and then see where it leads me to.

Great idea, though I’m not sure how user friendly this would be for commercial customers. Because they wouldn’t like to install some other app just to get notifications, etc. I guess a way to improve that would be to white label the app. If it gets mass adoption it wouldn’t be an issue probably but that’s hard :D

I agree with you

But it really depends on the type of product.

i.e. think about customer support live chats, or similar products. your support agents need to receive mobile notifications, and they are probably more keen to install a third-party app.

Yep, in that regard it’ll be perfect. I could label it as perfect for internal company workflow. Not the “end end” customer. The average consumer.

If that's your target market then this would be the perfect product certainly. I was thinking more in terms of the general end consumer.

I think your best bet is to code it yourself (assuming you can, I don’t know your background). If you’re trying to sell a digital product it’s not going to take you much time. The core part will be to integrate a payment processor like stripe. There are lots of libraries which simplify this process. One important thing to take into account is to make sure you have as many payment options as possible to make the sale process as easy as possible. (ApplePay, GPay, etc.)

Yeah ideally I want to code myself except the payment part, just need a good payment system provider that supports multiple options. My country isn't directly supported by Stripe (but I heard there's workaround haven't dived in yet), so I currently don't know other good options.

Edit: I just learned it's called "Payment gateway", looking at various options now..

Great stuff. Yeah in case your country isn’t supported be sure to research local providers. There surely are some. If not local then there’s other ones supporting it.

Would love to see a mobile app for this or at least a mobile optimised web page as this looks like something I’d play when commuting. Very cool idea regardless. Cheers!

It's actually a lot less than that. It's more like $50k. Just saying.

I’d love to hear more about this and contribute if I can. I’m a web developer but maybe I have some skills that would be useful. I’m surprised this hasn’t blown up.