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by ibudiallo 3184 days ago
Earlier this year, we were in the Alley and also participated in Battlefield. I would say it's worth it because it gives exposure to your start up.

However, techcrunch is not all it is said to be. It is much of a self congratulatory Enterprise. A lot of people that came to our booth were other start ups trying to find new customers. The amount of web traffic we received was dismal, compared to that famous cloudflare article.

In the end any advertising is better then no advertising. plus it helps you come up with a one liner that describe what your startup is and does.

If you want to read the whole experience: https://idiallo.com/blog/renly-techrunch-disrupt-ny-2017

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I read your blog post nice read. With respect I suggest your product is too narrow.... space in salons is a very small target user base. I'm not surprised you didn't get much traffic or sign ups from SU Battlefield.... probably no one watching owns a salon or is a beautician.

Humble suggestion is to pivot to a new or revised idea.

How is your traction right now?

Thanks for reading. Actually since then there has been greater traction. The low traffic however wasn't just us. Live video showed a very low number of viewers (never more then 100).

Also we are adding verticals as the we see the demand increase. We started with fitness, dental, office and now we are seeing more and more people asking for generic spaces. So this is our next goal, renting any sort of space possible.

What do you mean about cloud flare article?
Oops, I forgot to include the link to cloudflare:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/what-its-like-to-launch-at-techc...