Wasatch Girl - Latest Comments in WuFoo

Re: WuFoo

Wasatch Girl — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:04:00 -0000

Great feedback Leffers, especially since you are a tech guy. Thanks.

Re: WuFoo

The Leffers — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:52:00 -0000

Interesting that someone would use a web-form building application on a daily basis, unless he's a website designer...

Ad-based revenue generation could work for the free users, however, in my mind, that will further pare down the number of potential users (specifically on the corporate side).

From an end-user perspective, I may have issues submitting potentially private info on a form that is plastered by ads...

Re: WuFoo

Wasatch Girl — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:47:00 -0000

I completely agree with that thinking! It looks like their sweet spot seems to be anyone without the capabilities to create these types of forms.

The interesting thing was the blog's author that I linked to stated that he used it on a daily basis. (Hence why I checked out the website in the first place). I should follow up this entry to see this guy's position and why he is so interested, especially since he seemed tech-savvy.

Re: WuFoo

The Leffers — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:35:00 -0000

From an investment perspective, I'm trying to figure out what market Wufoo is attempting to cater to... From experience, I would say that simple email feedback-type forms are relatively easy to create in HTML with most web hosts supplying the back-end scripts etc.

A robust database back-ended form may be difficult for the average person to create, but shouldn't be difficult for a professional web design team.

That leads me to believe that this service would cater to individuals or companies who (i) have not hired a professional web design firm (ii) do not have the technological know-how to create forms, but need one or more. So, once dealing with this subset of people, how many will be willing to pay for this service?*

*there is a free service available which will allow you to create up to 3 forms with up to 100 submissions/mo.

My guess is that the technically un-savvy home webpage creator is your sweet-spot here and one who will probably take advantage of the free offer. If that assumption is correct, how do you translate that free subscriber base to a revenue generating subscriber base?