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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 2 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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modo_mario ◴[24 Feb 25 10:44 UTC] No.43158048[source]▶
After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try.

I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons.

Additionally I'm considering where I should move to. I wish to live in a place where owning substantial land for homesteading in a relatively climate safe area (relatively doing a lot of work there but imagine not already arid or with high storm risk) is not completely out of grasp. My region of Belgium is too densely populated for this. Even if I'm not moving to a different country even next year I figured it's the kind of thing that takes a stupid amount of preplanning.

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1. conductr ◴[01 Mar 25 01:36 UTC] No.43214572[source]▶
My family owned a salon growing up, I’m pretty in tuned with this if you need help. I’d just copy the features of another app for starters. Most the features are common and a core expectation of your user (scheduling, etc). You should signup as a stylist on some of these apps to see what they offer, how they solve, and put your own spin on it. ( https://glossgenius.com/ ).

I’m In the US male hair market as a user these days and i think you could add value by increasing LTV of a customer for the stylists. I always wonder by they don’t offer a discount if you book your next appointment during your visit. Or offer a discount for annual prepayments, etc. The goal would be to have their customer 1) repeat and 2) repeat often. You could move the needle with some good incentives and marketing strategies for the stylist. If their walkins converted to repeats more often and their regulars had better “adherence” coming every 18 days on average instead of 20 days on average then you have a strong value prop for any stylist should use your tool and pay you for it!!

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2. modo_mario ◴[03 Mar 25 14:19 UTC] No.43241978[source]▶
>You should signup as a stylist on some of these apps to see what they offer, how they solve, and put your own spin on it.

I'll discuss some more with local salons who use or have used competitors instead i think. Perhaps it's dumb but I'm a bit skittish about being obvious when i'm looking at features of a competitor worth hundreds of millions. (I think a stake in treatwell went for 180 million a good while ago.)

> I always wonder by they don’t offer a discount if you book your next appointment during your visit.

This as a pre-configured option in the scheduling UI on the business end of things is something i haven't added yet. I'm guessing this is not an option glossgenius?

Ps: How can I hit you up once i have an easily shared demo?