Share Your Startup - May 2021 - Upvote This For Maximum Visibility!

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• Location of Your Headquarters
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

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Startup Life Cycle Stages (Max Marmer life cycle model for startups as used by Startup Genome and Kauffman Foundation)

• 1. Discovery
  • Researching the market, the competitors, and the potential users
  • Designing the first iteration of the user experience
  • Working towards problem/solution fit (Market Validation)
  • Building MVP
• 1. Validation
     
  • Achieved problem/solution fit (Market Validation)
  • MVP launched
  • Conducting Product Validation
  • Revising/refining user experience based on results of Product Validation tests
  • Refining Product through new Versions (Ver.1+)
  • Working towards product/market fit
• 1. Efficiency
     
  • Achieved product/market fit
  • Preparing to begin scaling process
  • Optimizing the user experience to handle aggressive user growth at scale
  • Optimizing the performance of the product to handle aggressive user growth at scale
  • Optimizing the operational workflows and systems in preparation of scaling
  • Conducting validation tests of scaling strategies
• 1. Scaling
     
  • Achieved validation of scaling strategies
  • Achieved an acceptable level of optimization of the operational systems
  • Actively pushing forward with aggressive growth
  • Conducting validation tests to achieve a repeatable sales process at scale
• 1. Profit Maximization
     
  • Successfully scaled the business and can now be considered an established company
  • Expanding production and operations in order to increase revenue
  • Optimizing systems to maximize profits
• 1. Renewal
     
  • Has achieved near peak profits
  • Has achieved near peak optimization of systems
  • Actively seeking to reinvent the company and core products to stay innovative
  • Actively seeking to acquire other companies and technologies to expand market share and relevancy
  • Actively exploring horizontal and vertical expansion to increase prevent the decline of the company

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[u/elementninety3]

Startup Name / URL

Chekkin - www.chekkin.co

Location of Your Headquarters

Remote

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

Better pulse surveys to measure your team's well-being at work anonymously, democratically, and without wasting time.

More details:

• Responses are completely anonymous

• Everyone on the team gets a summary of the results of each survey

• Customize the survey schedule and questions

• Only one person needs to make an account - no logins, apps, or passwords for team members to deal with

What life cycle stage is your startup at?

Validation

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

First 30 users

How could r/startups help?

Go to the website and try it out, and please share your feedback!

Discount for r/startup subscribers?

If you're interested in trying it out for more than the 60-day free trial, DM me.

[u/swaggymcswag420 → u/elementninety3]

I think this is a good idea. A few questions:

For responses that require text, what if an anonymous person puts something offensive?

How did you come up with the monthly pricing model?

Would people be able to submit multiple responses without detection?

Do you think it might be frustrating for managers that aren’t able to target negative outliers? i.e. there was a positive majority decision but a few select people are dissatisfied— how do they address it?

[u/elementninety3 → u/swaggymcswag420]

Thanks!

For now, there are only multiple choice questions, no free text - this was to help ensure anonymity. Long-term, I likely will add in a setting to enable free text responses if desired. I thought about people writing offensive things, but I'm not that worried about it - if someone wants to anonymously send a hateful message to their work team, there are already a bunch of other ways they can do that. I think it's an HR situation either way.

For monthly pricing - similar products seem to charge ~$3-$8 per seat. Since this product doesn't require a login, I didn't think per-seat made sense. So $29/mo was meant to be competitive in the market for a team of 5-10.

Everyone gets a unique survey link that can only be used once, so there should be no ability to "spam" multiple responses.

Yes, I agree this might be frustrating - in my experience, tools like this work best when the team meets regularly to discuss the results. Tracking responses doesn't fix anything on its own, but forcing regular conversations can help uncover issues. Another point is that for Chekkin to work requires a manager who is invested in their team's well-being and willing to make changes if needed.

[u/noisy_parakeet → u/elementninety3]

This is funny, I literally made the same app at the start of covid teamcafe.org, except you don't need to signup your team. Signing them up gives the impression it isn't anonymous ;)

Edit: Ok I just read you 'how to' properly and it only sends an email to the team members for the URL. Good one!