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[lucaspiller]

My guess is that most products that do this aren't much further along than a weekend hack. It's pretty easy to throw up a marketing site, and it let's you quickly see if people are interested. Thing of it as a μMVP :D

[samstave → lucaspiller]

They have a list of customers at the bottom of their splash - this looks like its more than a weekend hack...

They may just not have the infrastructure to support a widely available service yet.

[goronbjorn → samstave]

You might notice that those are all YC companies also ;)

[samstave → goronbjorn]

HA! - No, I didn't notice that at all...

Good point, thus those customers might be "load test" and "POC" and not necessarily paying...

[jessep → samstave]

Stripe launched and developed this way (yc first). Seems to work out pretty well.

[samstave → jessep]

I didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing!

Just that on my first post I saw "customers" thinking they may have been more traditional customers.

But after being informed they were YC - it made sense they were more likely load-test and POC customers that help participate in the product evolution.