Well, as the title says, not much got done for Fix it Today. I spent most of the day at our Amazon warehouse working on shutting things down. I can’t wait to be done with that. Unfortunately Fix it Today didn’t get my attention like it needs to. Still stuck on how to get consumers… Also still pondering about applying to yCombinator.
So I’ll skip the warehouse stuff and lets recap the small amount of work done for Fix it Today. Looking over the Facebook ads, they are looking good. Lots of clicks and app store impressions but not much conversion. I’m not really sure what we need to do to increase conversion on the app store side. Again, I think I wrote about this before, but maybe we are better off just getting website clicks/views. This is all new to me so I’m really not sure.
Spoke to a provider today just to verify his account. Everything looked good so its good to see there is success on registration. Also had a couple new providers register today which is a good sign. We started calling HVAC providers. I feel like out of all of them HVAC is the most aggressive out there and they spend the most money on ads. We seem to have better feedback by HVAC providers than any of the other ones. One day, when Fix it Today is big, I’d like to do industry wide surveys from our users and really see how things work at a large scale.
So, I can’t remember if I wrote about it or not, but I have been debating about applying to yCombinator. I’m not sure how much we will really get out of it (funding is nice) but education wise or getting contacts. Sure would be nice to be able to talk to some people that have built marketplaces before. The clout of yCominbator would be helpful later if we decide to try and raise money as well. I think building relationships would be my biggest goal though I don’t know if thats really somethingI would get out of it. Also, its in San Francisco and I have wife and kid here in Texas. If I could fly out for a few days each week it would be doable, but moving the family to SF for 3 months is probably out of the question.
