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http://www.fleaflicker.com/ (A fantasy sports site.) Started solo, sold, bought back, now operates as a team of two but I am the sole technical member.
I run http://getreplied.com It's a very simple app to help people get their email replied.
I run PlainSite: http://www.plainsite.org
I sell a laptop battery meter ( http://batterybarpro.com ). It's not income replacing; it makes about $1,000 per month, but it's been crucial in saving enough for down payments one two houses. I've tried to get the revenue numbers up, but I've never been able to break a $2,000 month.
> I've never been able to break a $2,000 month. Try charging $9.95 instead of $8.00? :)
I sell a laptop battery meter ( http://batterybarpro.com ). It's not income replacing; it makes about $1,000 per month, but it's been crucial in saving enough for down payments one two houses. I've tried to get the revenue numbers up, but I've never been able to break a $2,000 month.
I notice you had a lifehacker mention, that must have been a huge boost?
I sell a laptop battery meter ( http://batterybarpro.com ). It's not income replacing; it makes about $1,000 per month, but it's been crucial in saving enough for down payments one two houses. I've tried to get the revenue numbers up, but I've never been able to break a $2,000 month.
Have you considered building a mac version? I love little utilities like this, especially at your price point. Nice product.
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I don't know anything, but when I think of reviews I think about this: http://hammerprinciple.com/ Maybe it is interesting for you to know, maybe not. Probably not.
That's pretty neat frontpage. I am a bit confused as to what it's doing, who's doing it and why. But it seems like a neat idea.
Straight questions for people to compare two things they know.
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Really love how you layout the "What We Do" vs. "What You Do" - Strong selling point, visually appealing, and pretty unique.
Thanks, I really appreciate that. I'm actually pretty self-conscious about the design because I don't have a design background and I'm color blind. Every time I use new colors (which isn't often) I have to send them to my wife to let me know if they look ok. It's a real pain in the ass, but whatever, I love the work.
I run http://www.candyjapan.com It just crossed 500 paying members. I started it with my wife, but recently the shipping part is no longer done by us two manually, but by a local supermarket. In the beginning it was just an email to some previous customers asking if they might be interested in a club like this. Then a landing page and a HN post. From there it grew through blog mentions and now there is a trickle of o…
How much advertising do you do? I notice you're buying ads on search for key terms. Do you do much display advertising. I'm sure you've figured out the lifetime value of your customers and you buy advertising based on that. If your margin's decent, you can probably get more aggressive with display ads to scale the business. I think the business has a ton of potential.
With this few conversions, it's hard to make any judgement to what works and small tweaks in particular are basically impossible. Noise drowns everything. It's inviting to start getting fancy with A/B testing age ranges or gender targeting on FB ads, but unless I am mistaken about 230 conversions are needed to say A/B test male vs. female assuming it would give a 30% boost. If you know how to figure out the optimal targeting without spending ~$20000 on each test, let me know :-)
If I could get LTV up (reducing churn might be the lowest hanging fruit now), conversions up or write better ads, paid advertising could still be doable in the future.
I run a small one-man-show publishing house: http://minireference.com . I produce math/physics textbooks for adults. I'm the author, business person, marketing person, and strategic partnerships person. Revenues are not stellar, but they keep me off the streets... The value I provide is synthesis of a lot of educational material that exists out there into a coherent package (a book). In many ways, my work is similar…
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