| Hi Kevin and Sam, We’re MinoHubs (https://www.minohubs.com) and we build commercial and community tools for software projects. The barrier to building a successful software project is high - apart from writing the code, you need to build a community and potentially set up some commercialisation (backing, licenses, support etc.) which isn’t an easy task. We provide customizable hubs that give projects: Commercial tools - Paid support - ability to offer on-demand consultation to businesses and developers. - Licensing - ability to sell one time and recurring licenses to businesses and developers (coming soon). - Backing - monthly contributions. In return, backers get more visibility in Discussions. Community tools - Powerful discussions with voting. - Announcements - emails and notifications to project followers. From Kevin’s initial feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746206) we understand that we need to be better at: 1. Leading the user through things to do after creating a hub. 2. Showcasing the benefit of using MinoHubs. We’re working on those right now. Our challenge is that, as Kevin also pointed out, we have a lot of features, but we’re also trying to appeal to an audience that would use different combinations of features; open source software, commercial software or projects that want to just use community features. How do we reconcile that users want a wide variety of functionality with the issue that this might present too many features for us to convey concisely? |
For you guys, the only thing people need to know and remember is that MinoHubs helps me get funding and make my software projects successful. That's the core of the idea.
The feature usage of an actual product also tends to follows the Pareto Principle. Most people use a small fraction of the features and a handful of features will be the most used by a wide margin.
Usually you market those most used features, but sometimes those features are different from the features that are best for getting them to sign up or even converting into a customer.