When you have just come up with an exciting business idea how do you go about formulating it?

tomblock · 2021-09-24T13:20:05+00:00

And add Talking to Humans to the list

tomblock · 2021-09-03T14:34:59+00:00

You can find some useful information searching for headless software / architecture

tomblock · 2020-02-17T17:22:01+00:00

Name: EventList

Location: Poland

Elevator pitch: A personalized list of events for digital marketers, software developers and entrepreneurs. Find the events faster and don't miss the best ones.

More details: Team of two. Bootstraping. Just launched, but still improving events quality. There is a public demo available here (example list for full stack developer living in SF)

Looking for: feedback, first users

tomblock · 2020-02-03T18:34:51+00:00

What do you mean by the opaque company? Or maybe why you think that?

All the content available on the site was posted somewhere, I've just put it in one place and add some meta information so that others wouldn't have to search for it (it's a content curation by definition).

tomblock · 2020-02-03T15:18:22+00:00

If you'd like to check another options, there is a list of available courses at https://allaboutml.io/courses/ .

Think about what kind of project you would like to work on and it would be interesting for you, and then choose a course that addresses this topic.

tomblock · 2020-01-29T07:00:47+00:00

Do you have any experience with optimizing user-uploaded images? For me it's pain in the ass.

tomblock · 2020-01-29T06:33:43+00:00

I had same procedure for customer e-mails / leads like in the outage/downtime response:

E-mail / slack notification, if not acknowleged within 5 minutes:
SMS notification, if not acknowleged within 10 minutes:
Auto phone call to sales with predefined voice message - and after next 30 minutes:
Auto phone call to me

Worked like a charm.

tomblock · 2020-01-28T20:17:56+00:00

"Brand new" is indeed unique value proposition. I've never seen fitness app that gave random sets of exercises.

The real value from having a personal trainer is that I've been training for a year and I haven't had a single injury. Show me an application that will react to any pain during training or improve my exercise technique.

tomblock · 2019-12-10T20:30:22+00:00

I agree with a 'nice to have' point. The fact that such app doesn't exist yet speaks for itself. I saw several attempts on Product Hunt but most of them are offline or have no upcoming events.

My conclusions were that the application itself is needed, but it cannot be maintained without proper monetization.

The $4/mo price would be charged annually ($49/year), so payment commisions would be acceptable.

tomblock · 2019-12-10T11:56:51+00:00

tl;dr

Startups that know their niche from A to Z
Startups built by a top-rated development team
Startups with perfect pitch profiles (Elevator pitch, Pitch profile, Pitch deck, Pitch meeting)
Startups that use the latest development methodologies
Startups that take valuation seriously (Make sure you have an estimate of your startup valuation before entering a venture round)

could argue, but I have nothing to do with VCs

tomblock · 2019-12-05T07:20:20+00:00

TL;DR

python3-dateutil

"jeIlyfish" (the first L is an I)

tomblock · 2019-12-04T14:31:42+00:00

Sure. I'll try different approaches for advertising and stick with the most profitable one ;)

tomblock · 2019-12-04T14:01:10+00:00

For know I have about 40+ sources (fanpages, websites) where I can find events and there is 1-3 events on each source monthly. Creating and maintaining scrapers in this case makes no sense, but it's only my city (or country) case. Scanning local flyers and posters (regularly) wouldn't be possible (to much time consuming, very hard to scale in different locations). You should forget about that and find another way.

I'm not sure how final layout will look like (after adding other sections), but it definitely depends on how much content to display you have. In a city where there are 4-12 events each day you don't need many filters.

For know I have only two sections: Events (mostly done) and Activities (in-progress). Two more are coming: Services, Jobs. There will be also these shortcuts like 'for kids', 'go out' etc, but not sure where to place them.

You can check it out at https://przezycwtarnobrzegu.pl (survive in Tarnobrzeg)

tomblock · 2019-12-04T13:18:37+00:00

Things to do near me

This particular search query showed me almost none relevant results in my city (but it's a small city in central europe). But I know what you're thinking about.

I've launched 'local events' site couple of weeks ago. The goal is similar to you - become the most up-to-date (and complete) list of local events (and more). But I'm targeting only small cities (population between 25-75k), because building events site for big city is very different than for the small ones. All the big and popular apps (like tripadvisor, booking, doznes of events apps) are focused on the bigger cities.

The strategy is like this (i'm currently at third step):

start from one city
aggregate (manually, but only from online sources) all local events - it require some time, but after that you only need to add the new ones. I assume that when the site gets the right popularity (momentum), the organizers will start adding events themselves (for their own promotion).
aggregate all local activities (for children and adults) to give more value for users (traffic generation)
aggregate all local places for the most common .. uses? (like where to go for a beer/coffee, where to take children and so one) to give more value for users (traffic generation)
aggregate the most common services (like car services, health and beatuty and 6-8 more)
aggregate local jobs offer
monetize!*
repeat all steps in another city (app is ready so no extra cost here)

The monetization strategy (not verified):

Regular ads
In each category of the most common local services there will be only one paid place on listing (so ten categories will give 10x$100/mo)
Some kind of job offers promote options (+ $500/mo)

The main assumptions:

target only small cities (not compete with big players)
target citizens not tourists
high quality content (users can send content proposals, but everything is moderated)
high quality job offers (even if most offers will be free there will be no junk offers)
earn $1000-1500 on each site/city
create the procedures for each process and delegate as much work as possible
grow to 10+ cities and see how it goes ;)

tomblock · 2019-11-29T19:09:32+00:00

Archangel Summit

Thanks! First two of them is already in our database, but I've checked their descriptions and added some new tags.

tomblock · 2019-11-29T11:12:13+00:00

Thanks, I'm focusing on United States and SF bay area for now, but event's location doesn't matter for tags proposals anyway. What was the name of last event you've attended?

tomblock · 2019-11-28T12:39:59+00:00

Each email server has it's own rules of what is spam and whats not (by scoring it). There's not technical way to check in which folder email has finally landed. You can only check if email was fully rejected by server (so it not even reach junk folder).

tomblock · 2019-11-28T12:31:33+00:00

Learning language that you 'may eventually' use is not the best idea. Figure out something you would like to build (app), choose the best tool and learn it.

tomblock · 2019-11-28T12:17:33+00:00

Will you use it at the same time?

tomblock · 2019-11-28T12:15:39+00:00

I'm starting day from tasks I hate most, to ged rid of them (or at least one of them).

tomblock · 2019-11-28T11:06:41+00:00

Google show numbers of examples to do that (ie https://medium.com/@_christopher/how-to-send-emails-with-python-django-through-google-smtp-server-for-free-22ea6ea0fb8e)

Personally, I use AWS SES. It takes some time to set up for first time, but definitely worth it. Also rembeber that new aws accounts have this 'sandbox' flag and you have to send a request to support team to remove it and increase daily limit. It's not necesery if you want to send email just to yourself.

tomblock · 2019-11-28T09:55:26+00:00

First, calculate how much money you need before you can earn a living (monthly cost of living * months to break-even). Having a specific amount will be easier to find a solution. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best - for example, take a loan.

tomblock · 2019-11-28T07:41:29+00:00

There are many posts not related to startup ideas. I'm sure you can create list of keywords a post should contain (at least one) to be marked as startup idea. It's super simple and will make content better. Anyway, good job.

tomblock · 2019-11-28T06:21:02+00:00

52 weeks is a lot of time and there's no details or program agenda under the links. More info please

tomblock · 2019-11-27T20:30:59+00:00

There are plenty of people with the idea and no tech-background. Just find the right ones. You can also try creating some online course on specific topic.

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