16:[[8346603,{"by":"hkyeti","descendants":12,"id":8346603,"kids":[8346894,8346972,8346912,8346730,8346953],"score":8,"text":"TLDR - Built a SAAS early adopters like but struggling to get the word out… any suggestions?

The background: two of us built our first SAAS service over the past 6 months. It's a poll and survey SDK for mobile developers (think a survey monkey 2.0, for mobile)

We made it to scratch our own itch - two co-founders are an game dev and app apps.

The handful of customers who have deployed it so far really love it and are use it every day now..

BUT… we're struggling with getting the word out.

Naively we thought if we build a great product traffic would just grow by itself (I know silly in hindsight).

So far we’ve tried posting about it here and product hunt, but not much traffic. We tried some direct emails to developers emails from App Store but low response rates.

It' quite frustrating - any suggestions?

EDIT: the service is https://polljoy.com","time":1411285354,"title":"Ask HN: Struggling to market our first SAAS - any tips?","type":"story","url":""}],[7404972,{"by":"talhof8","descendants":59,"id":7404972,"kids":[7405575,7405637,7406018,7406761,7405701,7405601,7408357,7405611,7406227,7405610,7406052,7405600,7406079,7406206,7405603,7405636,7406599,7405655,7405870,7408599,7405626,7405791],"score":86,"time":1394899414,"title":"HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today","type":"story","url":"https://www.hnsearch.com/?"}],[6900211,{"by":"tomkin","descendants":2,"id":6900211,"kids":[6900228,6902143],"score":1,"text":"This may already exist, so I figured HN would be the best place to ask.

I am working on a large inventory system and throughout there are a few number crunching functions that take time to execute. I would like to add a small "please wait" game that will take the edge off of an incredibly tedious and painstaking task.

Users are very happy with the system on the whole, but I feel like I can make the annoying bits something to look forward to. I like the thought of them saying "yes, this sucks, but at least there is something to look forward to".

I have no interest in game development, but I also don't want the bloat of a committed game engine, etc.

Any ideas? :D

EDIT/HN devs: When I first added this post, it included <p> tags instead of CR. After editing and removing, it appears it doesn't happen again.

EDIT 2: I would pay for a service that provided interstitial games.","time":1386938439,"title":"Ask HN: I want to make a boring process fun. Fast-loading HTML5/JS/CSS3 games?","type":"story","url":""}],[6494517,{"by":"Libertatea","descendants":44,"id":6494517,"kids":[6494751,6494729,6494810,6495005,6494833,6495115,6494838,6494812,6494791,6494869,6494819,6495916,6495890,6494934,6495058,6495434,6495663,6495302,6495261,6494769,6495018,6495233,6495187],"score":170,"time":1380879949,"title":"MIT inventor creates cube robots with no external moving parts","type":"story","url":"http://www.kurzweilai.net/mit-inventor-unleashes-hundreds-of-self-assembling-cube-swarmbots"}],[6126882,{"by":"bad_user","descendants":126,"id":6126882,"kids":[6127017,6127522,6127834,6129107,6127269,6127506,6127524,6128943,6132720,6132093,6127511,6132522,6131214,6130082,6132466,6133351,6133038,6128278,6128364],"score":212,"time":1375192068,"title":"Brand new Scala-lang.org","type":"story","url":"http://scala-lang.org/"}]]

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