We built a ChatGPT app that lets you create and manage Jotform forms through conversation. You can generate forms, refine them, and analyze submissions without leaving ChatGPT.
That might be the goal. If you are storing private data for your users which should not be queried. You can have separate encryption keys for each user and keep their data on separate databases.
Offering to give users a $50 Amazon gift certificate in exchange for a 45 minute call works pretty well for us.
Since we know that 3 out of 10 users who receive this offer will accept it we segment users by industry / feature usage etc. and send offers to talk to them to listen their stories and feedback.
This is why when investors replace founders the companies stop innovating. Obvious ideas don’t have any value. You need deep domain knowledge to see how things really are, and not how things seem to be.
What he means: If your product (first version) is Great (at a few important things), it doesn't need to be Good (at everything)
I think the unstated “first version” part is important. You should be gradually adding the missing parts. And not just leave it at the great, simple but missing too many things state forever.
Facebook/Twitter is terrible for putting down ideas. You don’t control what happens to your content. Posts get lost in the sea of millions of other posts. These companies constantly change policies.
Writing is a public act. You might still be expecting some readership without the expectation of ad money or promotion of something.
What I miss most about the blogs in 90s and early 00s is the conversation between blogs by linking, quoting and commenting each other. Reading blogs involved going from one blog to another, and reading blogs of 10 people about a single issue. It was a conversation. And you would constantly discover new blogs this way.
A good way to measure outcome is to watch how many people are using a new feature (or a new version of an existing feature) successfully and how often they use it. The key word here is “successfully”. Don’t just measure how many people tried to use a feature. Define and measure success with a feature.
I love doing something similar with my small kids (4 and 2). I start laughing for no reason and when they see me laughing they start laughing. We laugh and have good time without any reason until we get tired. I also remember seeing some festival in India on TV. Everyone is laughing and having good time, for no reason.
We have been self-serve product for the first 12 years and a year ago we launched our Enterprise version. As the article mentions because of the existing high traffic it has been pretty easy to find leads. We have already signed 100 Enterprise customers. Our main challenge was not to find customers, in fact we struggled to catch up with leads. The main challenges were making the product Enterprise ready with necessary features such as covering most popular SSOs and building admin privileges on the Enterprise product, and trying to build a sales team from scratch.
We had to hire 3 sales people before we found someone right. It is like someone hiring developers without any development experience. You get it wrong because you don't know what makes someone good. Get help from someone who has experience. We finally found the right person from our network and suddenly sales started flying.
I was at a luxury Turkish resort in the Mediterranean this summer. It had an amazing open buffet. You could find anything you want. I'd just fill two plates with different boreks and nothing else. Hot, right out of the oven, they were amazing.
Here is a startup idea for grabbing: Make a better interface for AWS/Google Cloud.
Since their APIs covers everything this should be possible. Be the first UXaaS.
A killer feature: a server by server breakdown of Google Cloud expenses. It is impossible to understand what you are paying for on Google Cloud. They lump everything together in an incredibly confusing bill.
We built a ChatGPT app that lets you create and manage Jotform forms through conversation. You can generate forms, refine them, and analyze submissions without leaving ChatGPT.
Here’s the link: https://www.jotform.com/chatgpt/
Happy to hear feedback or questions.
@aytekin