The reason why it's particularly interesting to me, i.e. to someone with a dev background, is that the lean startup wisdom says you should be very specific about the customer you're after and Uploadcare seems like a solution targetted at a broad spectrum of customer segments. Of course, I'm happy to be proved wrong if there are one or two dominant customer segments that you address Uploadcare to. Also, you might have as well started out with a very specific customer persona and spread to other segments. Whatever it was, curious to know.
I guess many developers dream up products targetted at developers like them selves. Selling to fellow developers is hard. It would be great to read a success story for a change.
That's a great read. I've always been interested in learning how such tech-oriented companies found their initial traction. Are there any blog posts / articles / podcasts about Uploadcare's early days and the search for the product/market fit?
I just went through the tutorial on meteor.com, and I'm impressed with the speed of getting results.
When I were to build another online app, I'd split that in building the frontend and the API composed from microservices, so that I'd be able to offer access through the UI and the web API. Is Meteor a good choice for this approach?
Entrepreneurs want to interview customers personally but they would rather like to spend their time on something else than finding people fitting the profile, and that would agree to an interview, then arranging each interview, and then organizing the output.
Ideally, they would like to have interviews in batches, so that they could for example clear one afternoon to do just that.
I can see two scenarios: starting with a customer profile spec or with a list of customer contacts. I'm not sure what is more common.
Assumptions about the audience
1) Early adopters and lean proponents (smaller segment, easier to reach out)
Entrepreneurs familiar with the lean startup / customer development and appreciating customer interviews.
2) "what business to start" (adwords phrase) (larger segment, harder to convey the value of the solution)
Entrepreneurs not recognizing value in 1 on 1 interviews. If interested in learning about their customers, they would choose anonymous surveys and marketing research publications over other, more involving methods.
Anyone out there feeling arranging customer interviews is a problem they don't want to deal with, and would be willing to get interviewed by me on Skype about it?
What's your thoughts about the idea and the assumptions?
The reason why it's particularly interesting to me, i.e. to someone with a dev background, is that the lean startup wisdom says you should be very specific about the customer you're after and Uploadcare seems like a solution targetted at a broad spectrum of customer segments. Of course, I'm happy to be proved wrong if there are one or two dominant customer segments that you address Uploadcare to. Also, you might have as well started out with a very specific customer persona and spread to other segments. Whatever it was, curious to know.
I guess many developers dream up products targetted at developers like them selves. Selling to fellow developers is hard. It would be great to read a success story for a change.