This launch was much better!
Our launch post “Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info—your HR gonna hate this” has reached the first page and was top-1 for few minutes until mods have removed the "your HR gonna hate this" part :D Likely, it was considered a clickbait.
We have received about 10K+ landing page visits, 5K+ visits to the demo app with demo data, and then 300+ people have proceeded to sign up and share their salary information with other users in FelloWage. Out of which, only 110+ people have made it to the end: accepted & vetted registration.
This was a ride because our vetting process is partially manual. My partner was checking LinkedIn profiles and accepting/rejecting registrations, and I was replying to people in the chat, email and on HackerNews comments, all the time interrupted and switching between activities like crazy.
Also, I recorded a whole bunch of minor (albeit annoying) bugs and another 7-10 good feature requests that I actually intend to implement before the next launch (probably, on Reddit).
We really think that we need to have a little bit more automation for the vetting process because that was a totally exhausting day, that makes you feel super-anxious in the end.
Why anxious?
I’m not sure.
Probably because it looks like success (so many visitors and sign-ups, and the post was trending for half a day on the first page of HN), but it’s still 0 USD of revenue, because all of these users are free, and the system doesn’t have enough data yet to compel them to pay for the paid account.
I’m not sure how much data I would need. Perhaps I should focus on saturating certain locations (like focus on Berlin, or San Francisco), and then have first paid accounts there, and then expand from there. I’m not sure if that’s the right path. Because right now we have a little bit of data in a lot of different locations around the globe.
Here is the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21843382