amrit_b

I am facing a lot of troubles with govt polices to run this startup. And also its getting tougher to take it forward alone. I got an exciting response when I launched it last September http://goo.gl/JHoMQK (~10k visits in a 3 hours span).

I built many missing parts, and also worked on the UI, payment gateways (2checkout), invoicing system, support ticketing system, etc. Everything works fine now and good to go for production.

Many of you (from the HN community) have registered and tested it, and gave valuable feedback (and few are already using it on production) - Thank you all for your support! And sorry, many accounts are still not activated.

Many of you tweeted about it https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=transcode.io&src=typd - Thanks you guys as well for spreading the word :)

I tried to team up, but failed miserably. There are so many things to do - coding, testing, marketing, support, financing, fraud detection, refunds, taking care of customers, expansion, new features, legal, etc.

English is not my first language, hence I face a lot of difficulties while writing official emails and stuff.

I need suggestions/directions for selling it or getting funded or getting co-founders.

Cheers!

(http://amritbera.com/journal/why-i-built-transcode-io)

Google Apps for business is not free anymore. $5 per email address is ridiculous (at-least for self-funded startups). Setting up a mail server (definitely not with web stack) is also not much of an option (extra -> cost + maintenance + complexity + headache). Providers like mailgun are not as easy as Google Apps.

Now a days I think of moving to shared hosting just to get easy email.

How do you folks manage?

p.s.:I am not a server admin