How did you spend thousands on the website if you have no users?
Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
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Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#12Even though on closer inspection the site is about more than just image generation, at first glance, it seems like its just an AI image generator. That's not a novel idea these days.
My interaction was, try to generate an image, get hit by a sign in screen, my enthusiasm has gone, close tab.
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#13Is it even Google indexed?
„Voloshow“ just comes up with this hn thread not the site
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#14non user of stuff like this, in fact I am completly outside of the target demographic, BUT of course I recognise the genre which works on me as an instant repelant and I flee, this unfortunatly for you, is so monumentaly derivitive as to barely trigger me, and I speculate that my dwell time would be the same as your target audience, but for exactly the opposite reasons.
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#15Why would I use this instead of going directly to the provider?
It’s like you’re selling apples for $1 directly outside the grocery store. Why wouldn’t I just go inside and buy them from the same place you just got them?
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#16First, the sign in with Google prompt. Go away. Enter my prompt, then hit with another sign in. Can’t use email, because that gets clipped on mobile. But in the spirit of community, I soldiered on to help a fellow HN user. So, I used Google sign-in, only to then get hit with “insufficient credits”.
Look at your analytics, I’ll bet real money that part of your problem is the high friction website you’ve built. I entered a prompt, and after a non-trivial bit of effort I was told to fuck off (“insufficient credits”). I don’t see any great mystery here.
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#17Take what I saw with a grain of salt but …
Who is this product for? And for what use case?
This is why people recommend niche markets.
E.g. This is for B2B marketers who need a tool to create social content.
Congrats though for launching. 99% of people don’t even do that. But now the hard work starts, and 99% of user adoption is now marketing (not the product itself).
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#18There is also the name of the site / product that is reminiscent of a Russian placename or surname, say Voloshov (which happens to be both). It's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the URL. Take that as you will.
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#19Did you check if the registration works?
If the registration form for "other sign in methods" ends up partially off screen on desktop, mouse scrolling doesn't work and the only way to reach the rest of the fields (for me it was verification code field, the button to request the code and registration button) is to press Tab.
Verification code requests end with 502 Bad Gateway from Cloudflare.
Re: Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
#20How did you spend thousands on the website if you have no users?
I’m guessing LLM credits to vibe-code it.