Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
This has a lot of similarities to the startup I worked at before Product Hunt, PlayHaven (now rebranded to Upsight). Some of the challenges we identified were:
1) SDK is a four letter word (as Andy, our CEO described). Companies are sick of integrating YET ANOTHER SDK and using YET ANOTHER dashboard.
2) Many companies distrust third party SDK's/code. They want to do everything natively and have full transparency.
3) To make this succeed, you need a kickass sales team to make this work.
I'm curious to hear how you're thinking about all these things, @virtualgoodz.
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Simon Dawlat
@virtualgoodz · CEO, Batch.com
@rrhoover Ryan – you are absolutely spot on, and while I believe we do have both kickass sales + engineering team, I’m absolutely horrified at the difficulty lying ahead of us to make it in this market.
Our main bet with Batch's tools+monetization ‘plADform’ approach is that we’re going to fill an ever-growing segment in the market: 1. Google/FB/Yahoo are going for the bigger publishers. 2. SaaS players are mainly gunning for m-commerce companies. 3. We build with indie developers & start-ups in mind: with a bit of Stripe mentality we’re happy to remain the small start-up serving other small start-ups for a while, building a product that’s both free and perfectly tailored to their needs: our vision is that we grow all together into something big.
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