Starting a SaaS business when you’ve never met your cofounder

Starting a SaaS business when you’ve never met your cofounder(accordably.com)

19 points by boomahora 5 years ago | 9 comments

curo 5 years ago |

Nice, good luck! Gosh I hate to dissuade you because the energy is great but a bit of competitive intel on competitive intel, these are some bloody waters. Startups and solo devs won't pay for CI and big companies need to be sold on CI (by the below players).

CI/MI players: Bertin IT, Cipher, Comintelli, Crayon, Digimind, Klue, Kompyte, Market Logic, M-Brain, Northern Light, Sharpr, and Wide Narrow

This obviously doesn't include the media monitoring tools like Brandwatch, Meltwater, or the page trackers, or the SEM tools that also do social tracking (SEMRush, Ahrefs, etc)...

Edit: if i were to bet on CI, i'd try to go after content analytics in a heavy way, and compete with BuzzSumo

boomahora 5 years ago | |

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it! We´re still new and directions can always be changed, but I´d say our target is SMB. The ones who can´t afford the big players. Great suggestion with the content analytics, this is something we´ll look into!

dstick 5 years ago |

I scanned all the way to the end and it seems this article is about.. tips to find a co-founder?

If you expect to read a personal account with fresh insights that matches the HN title, you will be disappointed.

I would have love to have read your personal angle. More on how things came about, the doubts, challenges - not the general stuff, but what it was like for the both of you.

boomahora 5 years ago | |

Well, this startup is still new, so retrospective insights are a bit difficult. However, once we have a couple months under our belt of operating the business, then I think those personal accounts of experiences will be a lot stronger. I like your idea of hearing both perspectives.

danpalmer 5 years ago |

The menu bar at the top of this page flickers constantly for me (latest stable public Chrome release) and could be a problem for those with epilepsy or other disabilities. I dread to think what it's doing to screen readers if that's actual DOM manipulation happening.

boomahora 5 years ago | |

Thanks Dan, looking into this now!

maximp 5 years ago | |

Wanted to report the same.

xwdv 5 years ago |

This is like saying you never met your wife but you're starting a family. A big one.

boomahora 5 years ago | |

Well, here´s hoping it doesn't end in a divorce!