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toutapp.com
Company blog · toutapp.com/blogstartupsbusiness
toutapp.com is the company blog at toutapp.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Rate my startup: Tout - templatize your repetitive emails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link toutapp.com as a sales outreach tool, often as a product suggestion in cold-outreach and sales-tools threads. The comments do not discuss the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rate my startup: Tout - templatize your repetitive emails5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-06-12
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-24
- Tout - templates and analytics for your customer development emails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-17
What Hacker News says?
No more. Use http://toutapp.com .
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on “Parody Color Pitch Deck”Submitted Toutapp wins $19,000 in prizes from EngineYard, Chargify and Twilio as a story · 42 points
HN discussionAwesome list. I recommend adding ToutApp( http://toutapp.com ) under sales tools.
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on “Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"”Submitted Our Principles Behind Building Products as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://toutapp.com
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on “Tout – How My Weekend Project Turned into a Real Lean Startup”Submitted How to evangelize your startup at SXSW with E-Mail by SMS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell, I'm obviously pretty biased here because I made it, but I really enjoy using http://cueyoutube.com/ It was a "sunday night" project, and the first thing I've ever done where I thought I did just the right amount of work and no more. It hasn't, like, gone viral or anything but has a few likes and a few people using it - who knows maybe some more will use it. But it was a great feeling - to really get something…
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on “Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?”Submitted Rate my startup: Tout - templatize your repetitive emails as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck here: http://toutapp.com/about and here: https://twitter.com/#!/Tawheed/status/83864457880678400
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on “The Day After You Get Funded”Submitted Why toutapp will be the next a16z portfolio company to pursue profitability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCold calling via phone is a not an effective use of a smaller team's time in my experience-- you will rarely reach the right person within an organization, there are lots of 'gatekeepers' for high level executives, and voicemails just don't generate responses. You can only make so many dials per day, and it is exhausting getting rejected all day. Where I've seen it become more effective is for larger inside lead gen…
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on “Ask HN: how do cold calls/emails work for you?”Submitted Send an E-Mail to Anyone on Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm quitting my day job to work full time on http://braintrusthq.com and http://toutapp.com .
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on “Ask HN: Founders taking the leap?”Submitted VIDEO: How to #followup at #SXSW as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI use Highrise ( http://www.highrisehq.com ) along with Tout ( http://www.toutapp.com ).
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on “Startup CRM Solutions”Submitted How to Tout your Startup at SXSW with SMS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTout ( http://toutapp.com ) uses SendGrid for emails. I'm happy to see some competition in the space, I can now have backup or multiple e-mail delivery providers, which is inherently better for my customers.
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on “AWS Launches Simple, Bulk Email Service Amazon SES”Submitted Will Salespeople Be Replaced by Artificial Intelligence? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSeems like Toutapp ( http://toutapp.com ) solves your problem! :)
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on “Ask HN: How do you track individually targeted emails?”Submitted How to Write Kickass Sales Emails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://toutapp.com
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on “Ask HN: Review Tout - templates, scheduling and analytics for your emails”Submitted Tout - templates and analytics for your customer development emails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am not sure what ur service covers, but I would focus on the following: 1. Personally write or use something like http://www1.toutapp.com/ to reach out to the subscribers and see if you can get a 5 min phone call or something. Worst case, send them a survey and provide $5 starbucks card as an incentive. 2. Write content (tips/tricks) email each week and send out For some people (including myself) I want to play wi…
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on “Ask HN: Converting Subscribers to Users?”
