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Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

DealsForHackers 16y ago
The Hacker News community is awesome! Yesterday, I posted this question, Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328) The response was overwhelming - 81.2% of respondents said that they would subscribe to the email list if Deals for Hackers existed. So, keeping with my Customer Development approach, I'm now going to try to close 5 deals. These should be deals that the Hacker community cares about - books, tech conferences, gear, cool startup stuff, etc. If you subscribe to the list (and please do), you'll start to receive deals if and when I can close them. Thanks again for your support!
- thomasb 16y ago
  That's great news. Definitely sounds like a good service. I can't wait!
  - DealsForHackers 16y ago
    Thanks, I really appreciate that! Hopefully, we'll see deals coming in about a week.
puls 16y ago
Only thing I'd change so far: stop being so anonymous! People will want to put a face and a name to a service. You signed the announcement email "-The Dude Behind Deals for Hackers". Who are you?
- sbisker 16y ago
  While you're at it, tells us about your experience with your "Customer Development" approach. Clearly something you're doing is giving you at least internal momentum; giving us some insight as to your successes and failures will only make us root for you more.
tzm 16y ago
I was one of the supporters in that survey. Curious to see what pricing sensitivity levels the HN community would support for this service. From a business perspective, this would help you focus on a specific segment, product mix and open up more discussion around the type of deals "we" would be interested in. You might consider digging deeper into what the community wants. I would be willing to answer more questions. Cheers.
- ljf 16y ago
  Agreed - in the same way Groupon targets different towns, i wonder if this will target different 'kinds' of geeks...

The Hacker News community is awesome! Yesterday, I posted this question, Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988328) The response was overwhelming - 81.2% of respondents said that they would subscribe to the email list if Deals for Hackers existed. So, keeping with my Customer Development approach, I'm now going to try to close 5 deals. These should be deals that the Hacker community cares about - books, tech conferences, gear, cool startup stuff, etc. If you subscribe to the list (and please do), you'll start to receive deals if and when I can close them. Thanks again for your support!

thomasb 16y ago
That's great news. Definitely sounds like a good service. I can't wait!
- DealsForHackers 16y ago
  Thanks, I really appreciate that! Hopefully, we'll see deals coming in about a week.

puls 16y ago

Only thing I'd change so far: stop being so anonymous! People will want to put a face and a name to a service. You signed the announcement email "-The Dude Behind Deals for Hackers". Who are you?

sbisker 16y ago
While you're at it, tells us about your experience with your "Customer Development" approach. Clearly something you're doing is giving you at least internal momentum; giving us some insight as to your successes and failures will only make us root for you more.

tzm 16y ago

I was one of the supporters in that survey. Curious to see what pricing sensitivity levels the HN community would support for this service. From a business perspective, this would help you focus on a specific segment, product mix and open up more discussion around the type of deals "we" would be interested in. You might consider digging deeper into what the community wants. I would be willing to answer more questions. Cheers.

ljf 16y ago
Agreed - in the same way Groupon targets different towns, i wonder if this will target different 'kinds' of geeks...