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Show HN: BillForward – Subscription billing platform for startups and developers

13 pointsby lostpixelalmost 11 years ago

10 comments

alandarevalmost 11 years ago
Hello Ian. I am glad to see fruition of your ideas. (We had an interview, I was a guy with Russian accent, Jevgenij).<p>The site looks great, I enjoyed viewing it on mobile even mroe than on Desktop. Now to the observations:<p>1. I would try to reach billforward.com domain owner to purchase it, if you have not tried. .net, while it is popular and the purpose somehow fits (.net - network infrastructure services), I fear 1-5% of customers will be lost due to accidentally typing .com, or simply feeling that if a company is on .net, it might not be as credible as it claims.<p>2. <a href="http://imgur.com/g6KQ3FP" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;g6KQ3FP</a> - it is zoomed out, initially the background would fit the screen, but the &quot;Tiered, tiered volume ...&quot; phrase was cut.<p>3. Pricing choice shall attract enough customers to further improve the product. Great idea for fast expansion, but is risky in terms of revenue. I assume, your bet is that many startups going for free, will eventually cross the bracket and start paying 1%.<p>4. Lack of application screenshots, some would like to look at the product itself before trying.<p>5. Billing services are obviously critical for any business, some statements and justifications of uptime, robustness and integrity would be very much welcoming.<p>Great job on explaining what the product is about right in the beginning. And as vijayaggarwal mentioned, call to action is well placed indeed, reminding that there is essentially no risk to try out.<p>Out of personal curiosity, do you mind sharing what technologies the product is built on?
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vijayaggarwalalmost 11 years ago
Very useful service and a nicely written documentation too.<p>There&#x27;s a typo you should correct: &gt; Since installing BillForward, Wifinity has <i>seens</i> (should be <i>seen</i>).<p>Also, consider increasing font size in the docs. 12px is a bit too small to read comfortably. Otherwise this section is very good and comprehensive.<p>As an entrepreneur myself, I love the fact that there is a relevant call-to-action at every scroll level on every important page. Except just one - Customers page. Perhaps you should put one there also. Guiding visitors to appropriate next action is extremely important for conversions, this I can tell from my experience of running an A&#x2F;B testing service.
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samcrawfordalmost 11 years ago
Really, really nice UI once you get into the main app. A little laggy from London, but I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll solve that as they expand.<p>It&#x27;s a nice touch that they&#x27;ve explicitly called out using ISO8601 for all datetimes and store everything in UTC.
stefanobernardialmost 11 years ago
How is this different than Recurly, Chargify and the dozen other SaaS billing systems?
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krunalasharalmost 11 years ago
It&#x27;s a pleasure to watch the billforward grow at such a great pace with powerpacked scalable design and slick UI.
mastersk3almost 11 years ago
Does this target a specific niche or another version of Recurly, Chargify or ChargeBee?
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mandyx777almost 11 years ago
Hmmm this seems interesthing i wonder if they solve my subscritpion upgrade problem :)
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sangeetavalmost 11 years ago
Love the UI. Very snappy design, especially the mobile version. Congratulations, Ian!
danielglhalmost 11 years ago
Looks like a nice service. How is it different from other services like Stripe?
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lana987almost 11 years ago
Great mobile version, very useful service!