kyle_t

I built an application to solve a very real problem I was having with sharing email accounts between other employees/contractors/assistants. It was a personal project that I enjoyed building in my spare time. I had hopes that it would also be useful for enough other people that I could make a 'lifestyle' business out of it.

In hindsight I should have treated it like a business from the start, launched early and got user feedback to guide the direction of the product and marketing. In reality I got carried away adding features I thought were cool but have no idea if they will actually be useful (or even more importantly that people are willing to pay for).

I've struggled immensely with releasing a product that I do not consider complete or perfect. It has been quite the internal battle to convince myself that customers won't in fact take one look and laugh.

The product I wanted to create (that solved my problem) would add an additional layer to your existing email address so that you could safely give access to other people and add a bunch of useful features as well such as email reminders, reporting, private notes, queued messages etc..

What is my target market? An overly broad and reaching question for sure, but I honestly don't know. I feel like we are a cross between a help desk and email management? I feel pretty confident that B2C is not the right fit for us but am I crazy to be ignoring them?

Is this something people that are even willing to pay for? Currently we are charging 39/month for first email address, 54/month for 3 email address and 79/month for 5 email addresses.

Thanks!

The link: https://www.recandy.com

HN's algorithm for ranking submissions is as effective of any I've seen for UGC websites, but comment ranking seems very heavily weighted to first submitted.

Perhaps HN does this already and time is just less of a factor than for submissions?