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by spokey
5347 days ago
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Hi Jori and Karri. Kippt does look promising. I have a little bit of a meta-question for you. Do you have any tips or advice you could share about getting covered on RWW with an early stage app? Based on a cursory look I think you'll agree that Kippt is an MVP right now. A well polished MVP, but still an MVP, and one that isn't markedly different than (and in some ways you've already called out, somewhat lacking in features compared to) a host of Delicious- and Instapaper-type apps. (I don't intend that to be negative, so I hope you don't take it that way.) How did you manage to get RWW to cover Kippt at such an early stage? |
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You're right, Kippt is really in the MVP stage right now while you could consider it as our second MVP: We originally build Kippt over 1 year ago during one day for Forrst App Contest (http://mykippt.appspot.com/). Today's Kippt was build on weekends during past 1.5 months remotely but we already had a pretty good idea what we wanted to do. While we needed to cut a lot of corners, drop features etc we wanted to have a product we and our loved ones would like to use. So far the feedback has been extremely good, so it's safe to say that pushing the early product was a right decision (also validated many of assumptions).
What comes to the press and RWW: we didn't contact any press outlets. In fact we decided to post Kippt only to HN so that we could get feedback and some users outside our friends. I think Marshall saw the submission or some tweet as he didn't contact us for the article, all the information was taken from our submission and other public sources. So I guess we just lucky but I like to think of it this way: It's always the product that does the selling, not the PR (but fanatic users would also help :)
I hope this clears things out. It has been an exciting day and it's really nice to hear that you liked how Kippt looks (Karri deserves credit for that). I should probably write a blog post about this but if you have anymore question, feel free to shoot me an email (jtlallo and the usual gmail suffix).
-Jori