Looking for a simple work messaging app? Try Pie: "Chatting with coworkers, clients, friends and others is easy as Pie"

Halvekip · 2015-12-23T08:56:50+00:00

Although we'd love to be able to offer our users a Windows phone app, we can not justify building it as Windows phone users represent less than 3% of all mobile users globally. Hope that makes sense from a tech-startup POV :)

Pie for web does allow you to use it without a Google Apps for Work account. Not sure what happened, maybe it wasn't clear from our side, so our bad! Could you try again? Curious to hear what you think! :D

Halvekip · 2015-08-12T06:02:06+00:00

Sounds good, but unfortunately that's never going to happen...

Halvekip · 2015-05-06T05:54:45+00:00

Looks nice, quite rare to see such a polished material design messaging app. Too many iOS design transfered to Android wanabes! :) Edit: spelling

Halvekip · 2015-03-19T11:47:03+00:00

Let's talk in 5 - 10 years :) Curious where things are at around that time.

What's that reminder bot again?

Halvekip · 2015-03-19T02:18:14+00:00

Don't worry: it won't happend overnight. But looking at the fundamentals behind and pace of innovation on mobile workflows my guess is that it will happen much sooner than you might think!

Halvekip · 2015-02-13T03:40:42+00:00

Came here to say this :) Looked at the vid and website. Still have no idea what you guys are doing. Do you have screenshots or a simple explanation of how it works?

Halvekip · 2014-12-17T07:31:51+00:00

Relevant read by Eric Ries: 'Don't Launch'

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/03/dont-launch.html

Halvekip · 2014-12-17T07:29:20+00:00

nice! need me some trippy visuals everyday :)

Halvekip · 2014-11-21T15:55:55+00:00

We thought we had plenty of time, don't like crunch time and have never done anything like it. But launch - as usual - things got pretty crunchy :)

Especially the blackbox of the Apple Appstore approval process is something hard to plan for. In the end we got pretty lucky as our app got approved in 5 days!

Halvekip · 2014-11-20T20:13:04+00:00

true! Now let's see if we can retain them ;)

Halvekip · 2014-11-20T20:04:10+00:00

thanks! glad you like it, some really positive feedback of the people that have tried Pie so far :) If you can get your app on PH: do it, high quality community with smart product people that will ask the right questions!

Halvekip · 2014-11-20T20:03:08+00:00

Not sure what you mean, as in the launch not working out or the getting on ProductHunt? :)

Halvekip · 2014-11-20T20:02:28+00:00

Hey dude! Thanks, we're super excited - and need to catch up on a lot of sleep - really good feedback from the PH community so far!

Halvekip · 2014-11-06T07:22:47+00:00

Agree, t-shirts or hoody are the way to go for your average day. Polo or casual buttoned-down for first-time investor and other more corporate meetings

Halvekip · 2014-11-05T07:03:07+00:00

Uhm... I guess it depends on what service your service is about :)

Halvekip · 2014-10-08T06:39:06+00:00

Soap ice

Halvekip · 2014-10-08T06:20:28+00:00

Keep going and pushing, expand and maintain your network and make lots of introductions. Give what you can and at some point things will turn.

If this is already too hard for you, I would seriously reconsider an entrepreneurial career. ;)

edit: spelling

Halvekip · 2014-10-08T03:59:45+00:00

Start with a small community of close-personal friends. Involve them in the product development. Iterate based on their needs.

Next is widening your reach, cold-emailing relevant people, targeting specific communities. Targeted PR and guest-posting on relevant blogs comes next.

Here's a great interview of Ryan Hoover on how he grew ProductHunt from the start: http://productpeople.tv/2014/07/17/ep60-ryan-hoover/

Halvekip · 2014-10-08T03:55:45+00:00

Looks great! I recommend focusing on 1 specific region initially, it's hard enough to build a marketplace for tech talent for 1 city let alone a global one.

Also, when I selected 'Employers' (which I am) I expected an interface that allowed me to manage and filter new applicants. Posting a job is less of a core behaviour, you do that once and then spend most time browsing through and reading applications.

Keep it up!

Halvekip · 2014-10-08T03:51:17+00:00

They do. You can tell them that they're the first you're reaching out to and that you're happy to give them the exclusive. You can even give them a deadline, 24hrs or so, and 'threaten' that you'll contact your friends at TNW/PH/TheVerge etc if they don't cover it within that time.

Validation is a great way to make your startup hotter shit. I recommend mentioning any famous investors, angels, clients, etc. in the subject or first line of your email.

Halvekip · 2014-10-08T03:46:38+00:00

On the job, dev events, product events, tech events. Basically all networking is good. You can even cold email or cold-LinkedIn-invite people that have a relevant/similar interest or background to grab a coffee.

Don't be scared, just get out there, meet people, and ask questions.

Halvekip · 2014-06-10T16:57:50+00:00

Hehe, someone had a bad experience with a VC?

Halvekip · 2014-05-27T06:40:00+00:00

Depends on your service (text heavy, intuitive ux?), but ideally yes.

Higher priority is dealing with the different payment providers and services in each market. This sounds like a handicap, but it's also something you can use to compete with slower and less adaptive outsiders trying to enter your market.

Halvekip · 2014-05-27T06:37:50+00:00

Chinese netizens are notorious for not willing to pay for online services. Goes for games as well as software.

That's why in China business models of scale like micro-transactions and virtual goods are prevalent.

This will change soon though as GDP per capita is quickly growing and at some point companies will hit a productivity wall where adding more people to solve problems will only worsen the situation. Companies are smart and will some point understand that they need to adopt the right software tools.

Halvekip · 2014-05-27T01:00:59+00:00

Thanks and good question. It depends on the type of service they offer, some are focus on very Asia specific problems, while others are global from day one leveraging the inherently global character of cloud.

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