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Finished MVP

It took 3 moths to get here.

I started focusing full time on this in December. Had to quit my job because as a Project Manager I was busy 200%, and traveling to customers often. When I was home, in my 30 mins of free time, I wanted to spend some quality time with the kids, so no spare time to work on the idea.
But after setting up my finances through the year, and some investments paying up, I finally had a viable plan to quit my job and start the work. It was a risk, and I would not recommend this to anyone if they did not plan this through from the beginning, especially if you have a family and kids.

I knew I wanted to build a better product than what I found on the market, with 3 main goals in mind: simple, fast and beautiful.
Now I am here and will start gathering some feedback.

I know that at this time I don't have the most complete product in the world, I had to focus only on a handful of features to make this happen. But I also know that I can grow it further, and I am very excited to see what lays ahead.

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    I saw the image of your pricing page and wanted to say that I am pretty certain one of the unspoken rules of SaaS is to never have unlimited anything. Although the costs may seem miniscule you don't price your products based on the price to you. You supposed to base the price on the value it offers to the customer.

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      I understand what you mean, and I agree that the tier model should be based on client value. I also had this dilemma while coming up with the price tiers.
      My motivation for the current choice was:

      1. Tried to create a simple model based on my target client categories
      2. As an MVP, I cannot compete with more mature products for now, even if I believe I have an edge in something; I found mature products with the same unlimited features
      3. The tier model will change through the lifetime of the product; unlimited in the beginning will change to some limit as the product grows

      But I will definitely think about your advice and reevaluate. I believe at least the users should be limited in all tiers. Thanks for the feedback, and best of luck with what you do!

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    Looks like we're in a very similar situation!

    I stopped consulting in January, a bit from frustration and a bit to built some stuff that was on my head lately.

    My MVP is taking longer than I thought though. Getting there!

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      Great! If you believe it's taking you longer than it should, maybe reevaluate some of the features included. I ended up cutting out some of them to stick to my initial plan. But I believe market timing is more important. Best of luck!

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    Hey Jay, wanted to take a look or reach out to you. Looks great but the contact form on the site failed. All the best!

    -Rich

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      Hi! Thanks for letting me know! I checked it out, but it seems to be woking now. Can you post a screenshot of the error?

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        I should have grabbed one at the time. It (and my attempts to resend) all came in about an hour or two later. I was then able to get in. So hopefully just a temporary blip. Some good things in here.

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    Good going, looks good from the outside, how are you generating traffic early on?

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      Thanks! The platform literally went live yesterday when I posted, so no clients yet. It will be a long, slow, hard grind to get them I believe. My plan is to try and close some partnership with at least one of the companies I worked for, to further grow the product. I will also try to let everyone know about it with every occasion (this means talking to my contacts about it, posting to reviewers, participating in different campaigns). But I believe that in the next 1-2 months feedback is more important for me than paying customers, as there are lots of things to improve. Best of luck!

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    Well, all the best for your future man..!
    I understand it's a great and challenging decision to left job and start working on your own ideas.
    Even i have little dependency and i can't go through it.

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      Yes, but I don't regret it even a bit. It is such a great feeling to work on something I believe in for a change. You just have to make a good plan before you begin.
      I think it was Steve Jobs who said: "Our time is limited, so don't waste your life building someone else's dream".
      Thanks, and all the best to you too!

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        Thank you.
        I just take a another route to make my product while working Full time. As, i can manage 3-4 hours daily, and i thought to leave when i am making recurring revenue to sustain.

        I saw your product and didn't understand the context well. What's BaseCRM about?
        Also, check mine, it's still hosted on dummy domain on https://mojowebstudios.com

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          I think you have a solid plan, keep following it!

          BaseCRM is all about client relationship management, from the contact/lead stage, through project management, and billing. Just trying to keep things simple and organised.

          Your website looks nice, keep up the good work! What are you using to build it?

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            Awesome, let me dig into it.

            I use Php (codegnitor) and Javascript (NodeJS) in the backend, MongoDb, as Data Base, Firebase, FireAuth and socket for chat, etc.

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      Thanks! Best of luck!

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      Thanks, best of luck!

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