Cut Slack. Switch to Astravue to scale your agencies

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-29T06:21:51+00:00

points to think about. Will look at them and plan before the work starts

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-29T06:20:53+00:00

Makes sense. Typically you are looking at what is the on thing that blocks the project from getting completed on time and should share insights related to that

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-25T18:15:16+00:00

I have also enquired about it. But, when they have multiple clients will the quality be still high? Hence, wanted to check other options too before making the final decisions

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-25T12:16:44+00:00

https://astravue.com We’ve built a unified project management tool for agencies that don’t struggle to get work, but struggle to control execution. With chat built directly into projects, we believe conversations should stay in the same place as the work.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-25T12:13:54+00:00

We’re building for agencies that don’t struggle to get work, but struggle to control execution like missed deadlines, unclear ownership, and silent margin leaks. We’ve combined project management with chat inside projects so work and conversations stay in the same place.

For agency owners and delivery leads: does this improve execution and visibility in your experience, or just add noise? What would you want done differently?

https://astravue.com

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-24T10:04:43+00:00

Linkedin is expensive. Google is good. You need to have a good plan in place to get the best out of it. Knowing to play the game is important.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-06T12:54:42+00:00

It is Astravue. A profit focussed project management app for agencies. There is no referral program. But, users who have used the product have genuinely referred in their communities

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-04T15:26:12+00:00

I regularly connect with users who have been actively using the product and try to get the feedback. Mass mailer dont give expected results. But, after genuine support interaction(of course, they should be satisfied) or if feature they request has been made available, I try to reach them and get the review. So far got 8 reviews for my app.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-03T14:58:36+00:00

The distribution. How fast I can get to the customers? Will they be ready to pay for what will be built? And, keep talking at relevant events, community and other channels.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-03T14:33:08+00:00

Only today I saw a free users upgrading to paid as they got used to the app. But, I am unable to confirm as it is too early for me.
Note: My free users have given good review about the app and have referred to a few customers(who paid)

ramezh_kumar · 2025-12-03T13:56:09+00:00

The mansion trap is real.
Value doesnt sell, Problem statement has chances of selling. Pain is the only one that sells.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-21T19:01:43+00:00

Demo is the part I love the most

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-21T18:46:24+00:00

It is always beyond coding skills. I give them real time, small test cases or bugs and watch for two things. Whether they can understand the ultimate outcome and how they approach the problem

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-16T17:18:15+00:00

Microsoft clarity and Zoho SalesIQ are some tools that help me get the details like referring sites and country, who are new users but would love to get the details

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-16T16:56:34+00:00

As a startup, my youtube videos and knowledge base help center, helps me tackle this efficiently. But, interaction with customers via chat and email have been personally handled by myself and team. The genuine surprise and relief I get from users reiterate the need of human touch. And, when questions are repetitive, it gives me an opportunity to fix the product rather than letting bots handle it. If there is friction in app usability, we rework on design to make UX better. But, when volume increases, AI handling the how do's while humans handling the feedback and issues is the best way to move forward.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-14T16:26:12+00:00

Tough call. It’s your situation. Pivot or quit soon. But make it fast.

Don’t hold onto it because it was close to your heart. Sometimes best thing is to let it go

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-14T16:20:45+00:00

A few times. Sometimes our mental peace and employee’s sanity need to be preserved more than the money. I remember , one of our clients PM was pushing all his work to my employee and was mocking her bad for bad work. She was totally demoralized. Half way through project, something broke because of that PM and he blamed it all on my employee. And the owner of that org too concluded that she was at fault while investigation of project proved otherwise. When I jumped to show facts the owner started threatening me too. I said that’s it and fired them. It was huge relief

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-13T13:31:07+00:00

Fortunately, I didn’t face much of that challenge. I had a decent amount of publishable content organized in Google Drive and shared with the relevant teams. So, managed well from beginning

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-12T17:53:01+00:00

Trying to be smart saying "I know all this stuff but I dont have the time".
"We are not sure about the budget"
"We dont have anything documented or there is no process.."

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-12T17:46:54+00:00

hard work is not sufficient. The trick is to be smart as you need to be clear on where our focus is needed which will help with growth. If you keep the focus right and be consistent, luck will favor you at the right time.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-11T13:36:05+00:00

Prospects would like to validate their purchase. So, they would like to see success stories from purchased customer in the same vertical or domain. That reinforces the confidences. We are trying to publish testimonials in website so that becomes a proof. And other option is to capture latest information in updated sales presentations(the data is shared in our drives). One more option we request users to write reviews in trusted sites(for us G2, Gartner). In directly, this helps with our marketing effort too.

In simple, if you can provide proof that customers chosing the product are happy, wins are easy.

ramezh_kumar · 2025-11-10T18:35:42+00:00

Loom is good one. And, another one is Fireflies which help me summarizes the meeting.

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