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4points
12comments
#197of 370 in 2010
Top 54%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Execution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks like a nice MVP
From 1 comment
Congratulations! It looks like you have a nice MVP there. Good work. I found the "Pricing" page to be needlessly confusing. There's a lot of room for optimization there.
michael_dorfman on HN
Objections
Pricing page is confusing
From 1 comment
Congratulations! It looks like you have a nice MVP there. Good work. I found the "Pricing" page to be needlessly confusing. There's a lot of room for optimization there.
michael_dorfman on HN
Monthly plan forces estimating usage and recurring charges
From 1 comment
The problem with the "monthly" concept is that it forces me to estimate how many notifications I am going to get each month, and then choose an appropriate plan. For me, that was…
michael_dorfman on HN
UK number verification text not delivered
From 1 comment
It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification…
1tw on HN
Requests
Pre-paid message packs instead of monthly plans
From 2 comments
Minimum Viable Product. In terms of the Pricing page, there are two possible ways to deal with the problem. One, of course, is to fix the page. The other is to fix the pricing…
michael_dorfman on HNThe problem with the "monthly" concept is that it forces me to estimate how many notifications I am going to get each month, and then choose an appropriate plan. For me, that was…
michael_dorfman on HN
List the countries where the service is available
From 1 comment
It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification…
1tw on HN
Questions
Does the service work outside the US
From 2 comments
It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification…
1tw on HNJohn from Twilio here. We do deliver to a huge number of countries, but there's issues with some non-US carriers that prevent us from guaranteeing delivery to non-US numbers.…
johns on HN
Alternatives named
Google AdWords prepay model
From 1 comment
Are they really going to be using the product "monthly", or just continuously, on an ongoing basis? I was thinking, I suppose, of Google AdWords, which has a pre-pay model-- you…
michael_dorfman on HN