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25 points by vanstee 11 years ago · 4 comments

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vansteeOP 11 years ago

It has been a pretty crazy past few days, but I'm here (and trying to stay awake) to answer any questions.

Here's our blog post about launching: https://medium.com/@signupsumo/from-napkin-to-shipped-in-7-d...

Also checkout what we have planned next on our Assembly page: https://assembly.com/signupsumo

  • rckclmbr 11 years ago

    Well, this isn't really a question about the product, but I was wondering how you got such a clean looking site built so quickly (complete with logo)? I'm not design oriented at all, so I was just wondering what your approach was.

    Also, how are you going to manage going from a usage-based (Clearbit is $99 for 12,500 queries) to time-based ($9/mo). Are you just hoping people won't use up all the queries, or are you going to throttle high usage users?

    • vansteeOP 11 years ago

      Thanks. I'm not sure if this is the best approach since I'm kinda rusty at front-end dev, but @Shea created some super slick, high-fidelity mockups for us. And then I just broke them down into a bootstrap theme and a few custom CSS components. The best approach for quick bootstrap theming seems to be just grabbing all the variables and overwriting the ones you want to change. Here's our monolithic variables file: https://github.com/asm-products/signupsumo-web/blob/master/a...

      The pricing issue is one I've thought about a lot. We'll have to see how the first few months go. At the end of the day we'll probably be able to change either our free plan or upgraded plan limits to cover that $99. I'll write a blog post about this once I have more info though.

x13 11 years ago

seems like a five minute script using FullContact

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