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Published on March 29th, 2013 | by Lulu
Simplib est sorti!!! Ça y est les amis, la MVP de Simplib est lancée depuis mercredi!!! MVP?? Mais qu’est ce que c’est? Minimun Viable Product est comme son nom l’indique la version la plus simplifiée d’un produit. En tant que start-up lean, nous nous sommes concentré sur la fonctionnalité la plus simple: Récompenser des sites pour leurs qualités pour les recommander à ses amis Facebook. Simplib est une application Facebook qui fonctionne grâce à un bookmarklet à glisser dans sa barre de navigation sur lequel vous cliquerez dès que vous voulez récompenser d’un badge un site qui vous a satisfait. Vous pouvez ensuite le recommander pour une de ses qualités en le partageant sur Facebook. Nous sommes parti du plus simple pour pouvoir analyser comment se comporte ce produit, récupérer et étudier les données récoltées pour s’adapter au mieux à l’utilisateur. Vous l’aurez compris tout commence maintenant! Comme toujours, nous ... Read More →
Published on March 11th, 2013 | by Lulu
Since we started our startup, we heard so much about lean startup, agile product development, and so on… With this survey, we just experimented this way has we never did before. We asked people about the pain our product is trying to solve. And you know what? We recovered so many replies, so many interesting point of views that we want to share it with you! We are now ready to getting a real product, closer to what people want. Thanks to Eric Ries, 37signals, Amy Oy and many more lean startupers we admire… ... Read More →
Published on February 28th, 2013 | by Lulu
As you know we have created Simplib to centralize the best websites of the web in one place. A very talented developer joined us as Simplib CTO and made us “get out of the box” to focus on the real problem: What is a good website? That’s why we started a research on the qualities of a good website. What satisfy an user after using a website? Is it a nice design? the reliability? the quality of content? The communication?… The best way to answer these questions is just to ask people! Being user centric is really important to us, we believe in people and their emotion to create a better web. Simplib is a worldwide project based on feelings and quality. You can contribute by filling this survey http://bit.ly/XTk1GS It would help us a lot This qualitative approach is interesting for users, who could use Simplib like a Tripadvisor for ... Read More →
Published on January 25th, 2013 | by Alexandre Chapoutot
I really believe in the power of the Internet, this ability given to the people to empower innovative tools and accomplish together brilliant missions such as Wikipedia, Twitter, Quora, and O’desk but I could think of many others like Stack Overflow. These tools revolutionize our world with their visions, making information travel faster, knowledge accessible for free to the world and the ability to work from anywhere, anytime. Dematerializing more and more things that are then so much quicker to be spread around. From Agricultural Age, where most people had almost only the option to be a farmer (in the best case), we have shifted to the Industrial Age with its factories, cities, and workers. And we are now entering in the Knowledge Economy. This new Age is creating a gap between two worlds that are separating around the use of technologies. In such periods of transition, the main challenges ... Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2012 | by Alexandre Chapoutot
Founders tend to focus on their product. We all love to see our product evolving with more and more functionalities. Are they all necessary? This is the question you should really ask yourself before you start to code any line. More, ask your customers. Have you ever thought that you were doing this product for them and not for yourself. Customer development is the primary focus all start-ups should have. Finding the solution to cure your customers’ pain is where you primary focus should be. Product development and customer development should always go by pair. You should ask yourself questions like: “What is the need for your solution. What job will you do so much better than others and why will they pay for this service”. Finding your need is not always obvious but necessary if you really want to know what is your market size. How can you create ... Read More →
Published on November 12th, 2012 | by Youri Jedlinski
What problems are facing startups? No idea, but I’ll tell you about ours. And first and foremost that we do. You need great technicians to achieve your dreams and those of your users. How to provide a unique and great product that improves the lives of your users? By surrounding yourself with top-flight developers, the “unicorns” rare gems that will lend their expertise to your product. More than skills, seek excellence in people you work with, looking for love and passion in what they do. In Simplib, we almost make the mistake to be impatient and choose to work with a provider who only saw in us one more client. We had reason to expect, we had reason to wait and look for better. Today we found a developer who has brought more than his skills, he brought Simplib his passion, his knowledge, his desire to surpass his excellence. We valued ... Read More →
Published on November 12th, 2012 | by Lulu
The end of the year is very exciting at Simplib and we would like to share it with you ! Alexandre started the founder instute 3 weeks ago, he learns a lot of interesting stuffs. He tells us about this experience in his post Trying to create a meaning full and enduring company with the founder institute. Youri is back in London motivated to make a strat over there!! He just arrived and was already at the google campus, he is meeting people all day long, still looking for designers, rubyists, SEO specialists. He will talk about it tomorrow on the blog. Thanks to our dear Trello, Skype and google + hangout, remote work is not complicated and we have found a good rate. We are still working on our app NFCity (“Curioucity becomes NFCity” ) and we organize a big event to launch it in December. We will post about it ... Read More →
Published on November 7th, 2012 | by Alexandre Chapoutot
Currently doing the famous Founder Institute incubator program, I will try to transmit you what I have learnt there and how great it is to evolve in this up-rising environment. I came there to listen and observe some of the best mentors on the planet such as Yann Lechelle, CTO @ Appsfire, or T.A McCann, Founder @ Gist. Whether they come from the Silicon Valley, Seattle, London or Milan, they all have something valuable to say that you can implement within your company. If you have questions about your project, and you don’t know how to answer. Interrogations on your vision, your product or on how to do a Marketing Plan you should definitely get the F… out of your comfort zone and apply to the next session of the Founder Institute. I would highly recommend to all people with energy and ideas to enroll in this program. Thus, if ... Read More →
