Upstart.me
Web and SaaS
newsletter advertising marketplace
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good concept and idea for promoting startups and running newsletters
From 3 comments
This is a great idea for both people looking to promote their startups and people running newsletters. I'll be trying it out from both angles to promote my startup[0] and my…
zizee on HNIt seems it's also a great way to find newsletters for a subject?
pacifika on HNThat's a clever idea... an ad network for all those newsletters...
runnr_az on HN
Useful for marketers and biz dev
From 1 comment
This is very useful for marketers and biz dev folk. My suggestion would be that there be an example of how someone can get a lot of value on the homepage.
highstarter on HN
Objections
Search returns no results for some terms and irrelevant matches
From 1 comment
Some feedback: Some searches, like 'deep learning', 'venture capital', and 'NLP' don't display any results. Not sure if this is a problem with the search functionality or with…
abarrettwilsdon on HN
Post submitted many times, seen as spammy
From 3 comments
Posting this multiple times to try and get more upvotes is pretty spammy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595667
Andrenid on HNIt's actually the 7th time this has been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=upstart.me
TekMol on HNIn all fairness, if you read through the comments, you'll see that each time was a new version being launched. This time it's the full product. The previous time there was a…
softwareqrafter on HN
Email field on homepage looks mandatory or like a second button
From 2 comments
I wonder if this can be considered a Show HN. It only offers an "Enter Your Email" field which looks like it's mandatory to use the "Try it" button below. Which I think does make…
TekMol on HNSmall piece of feedback: I thought the "Enter your email" on the homepage was a second button. Took me longer than it should have to realise it wasn't.
yalooze on HN
Preview GIF is too large (3.3MB)
From 1 comment
I like the look of the GIF on the front page (http://upstart.me/img/preview.gif) but it’s 3.3MB — I believe you could cut that down significantly. I have a similar GIF on…
Cenk on HN
Requests
Add a way to update subscriber counts
From 1 comment
Do you have a way to update the number of subscribers on our lists?
garysieling on HN
Add a way to get newsletters listed
From 1 comment
How can we get our newsletter listed? I run one with about 2,000 people for tech in development.
dalerus on HN
Add music as a category
From 1 comment
Any chance you'll be adding music as a category?
sk24iam on HN
Questions
What is the monetization strategy
From 1 comment
This is a great idea for both people looking to promote their startups and people running newsletters. I'll be trying it out from both angles to promote my startup[0] and my…
zizee on HN
Is this a valid Show HN given the email sign-up page
From 1 comment
I wonder if this can be considered a Show HN. It only offers an "Enter Your Email" field which looks like it's mandatory to use the "Try it" button below. Which I think does make…
TekMol on HN
Alternatives named
newsletter.city
From 1 comment
Not related but I stumbled into something similar not long ago: https://newsletter.city
cotsog on HN
Algolia for search
From 1 comment
Some feedback: Some searches, like 'deep learning', 'venture capital', and 'NLP' don't display any results. Not sure if this is a problem with the search functionality or with…
abarrettwilsdon on HN