[HN Gopher] From Show HN to Series A in One Year: Reflections fr...
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From Show HN to Series A in One Year: Reflections from Our Founder
Author : soumyadeb
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-06-17 12:05 UTC (1 days ago)
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| soumyadeb wrote:
| Founder here.
|
| We wouldn't have had reached here if not for the Hacker News
| community. Wanted to take this opportunity to pass on deepest
| gratitude to the community.
| bsid wrote:
| love your product :)
| brentm wrote:
| Congrats!
| rolleiflex wrote:
| This is misleading. It sounds like when they say 'From Show HN to
| Series A', the implication is that the Show HN was the beginning
| of the company. Turns out, it's the moment where they had 30+
| integrations already, a mature company.
|
| I guess HN is well known enough now that even marketers know
| about it.
| libertine wrote:
| I'm a marketer and I know about HN, and actively participate,
| for many years.
|
| With that said, even before when I was just lurking that I've
| seen HN being used for marketing purposes, daily.
|
| Some more obvious, others less, and certainly some that weren't
| aware they were doing marketing.
|
| I don't get why marketing gets such bad rep here.
| randomsearch wrote:
| Because it decreases the SNR
| onion2k wrote:
| Only for people who don't understand startups. Anyone who's
| done the whole startup thing knows that marketing is hugely
| important for getting traction, and thus revenue, and thus
| profit. If you think that marketing and sales are just
| noise then your startup is pretty much guaranteed to fail.
| Show HN posts can be a great place to start if HN readers
| are a likely source of customers.
| whatshisface wrote:
| The OP is talking about the SNR received by the readers
| of HN, not the potential value of the HN customer base
| and their importance to businesses.
| soumyadeb wrote:
| Founder here. We open-sourced our GitHub repo on Oct 2019 and
| someone posted on HN. The product wasn't ready/stable then
| (though you are right - we had a few integrations)
|
| We did a formal Show HN in March 2020 when the product was
| ready to be used.
|
| Orig HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756
| Show HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637302
| jayzalowitz wrote:
| Please for the love of all things marketing stop using acronyms
| on your homepage..
|
| I literally still cant figure out what you do.
| bshimmin wrote:
| I agree with you, though perhaps if you don't know what "CDP"
| stands for ("customer data platform"), you're maybe not in the
| market for one. The only company I've really heard of in this
| space is Segment, and their homepage does a better job of
| explaining what these sorts of things do.
| lmeyerov wrote:
| I read it as "Cloudera Data Platform", which is part of the
| ecosystem it's replacing, and left me doubly confused :) But
| the real customer may be VCs, so not a high-priority problem,
| esp if they spell it out instead of abbreviating for end-
| users.
| ageyfman wrote:
| Lytics.com is another one. It's a new space, but growing
| salicideblock wrote:
| The cynic in me suspects that this is intentionally obfuscated
| to the readers not already in the know.
|
| Whereaa few of the general public are likely the target user of
| a CDP (customer data platform), they are likely the _actual
| target_ of the product: they will have their data and
| interactions detailely stored and processed via this platform.
| However well done this may be, it is more comfortable not to be
| too aware about it.
| soumyadeb wrote:
| Yes, we are a Segment alternative. Thanks for the feedback on
| positioning. This is something we are still figuring out (and
| will probably do for a long time).
|
| CDP (Customer Data Platform) is a more widely known space but
| it's too broad.
|
| CDI (Customer Data Infrastructure) is more relevant but very
| few people know about it
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