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I made hotcold typing - http://hotcoldtyping.com , a touch typing learning tool with instant feedbacks. I released initially as chrome app with free and pro versions. Pro version didn't go anywhere. Since then I changed to 'support developer' version and made the tool free in website also. So far, I had only one buyer for ' support developer' version. But still, I'm proud my work in the app. I never had any intention…
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> I am getting well when the world says that cannot be done No one is saying this. The "Health and Wellness" industry is booming > I am convinced that part of what is wrong with modern medicine is that money gets made off of treatment, not off of positive health outcomes Crazy charlatans want treatment, preferably expensive and\or ongoing > I'm a woman ... I don't know how to do business ... I'm very eye catching I'd…
I am routinely told it cannot be done for my condition, the health of the "health and wellness" industry not withstanding. And you are, ironically, proving my point that a lot of attention ends up on me, and not in a good way, rather than on my work. My life is a case of "fact is stranger than fiction." I am confident that trying to lie about it in order to make it more palatable would only compound the problem. I am…
Your two comments here have talked about you and not about your work. You might be able to get attention focused on your work by linking to it and talking about it more specifically? All the other top level comments I read on this post included details about the project and often a link/name.
Without looking through the responses (yet) I can guarantee the vast majority of any failed projects here can be contributed to a lack of focus on sales and marketing. For us techies (and I include myself in this although I do sales and marketing for a living, so I've beat it out of me) it is far too easy and safe to return to what we know...AKA the technology.
I made hotcold typing - http://hotcoldtyping.com , a touch typing learning tool with instant feedbacks. I released initially as chrome app with free and pro versions. Pro version didn't go anywhere. Since then I changed to 'support developer' version and made the tool free in website also. So far, I had only one buyer for ' support developer' version. But still, I'm proud my work in the app. I never had any intention…
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Thank you so much! I guess I should've posted it somewhere sooner...
That website would be a great portfolio example if you wanted to write for a show like Silicon Valley...
I wrote a javascript compiler. At the time (2000), it was twice as fast as Microsoft's and 20 times faster than Netscape's. I was correct in anticipating that js speed would become very important, but my implementation was ahead of its time and didn't get any traction. It has since been rewritten in D and is Open Source: https://github.com/DigitalMars/DMDScript
I've build complex app for managing vineyards and wineries. It has tons of features: time tracking, input tracking, harvest and production features, mapping, tons of budget/cost analysis. It turned out, it is hard to convince farmers to ditch their trusty excel sheets and notepads and start typing all those info into computer program. I managed to find few customers, but they haven't stick for longer than one year. I…
Did you figure out why customers would leave? I've been thinking about doing something in the "most people use a spreadsheet" space and hearing that people went back to it after a year of using a dedicated product is a little worrying.
It pays its way, but at a huge cost of time spent on support and maintenance. When non-trivial feature requests come in, we can't feasibly drop everything else for long enough to implement it. We signal this by asking the customer to pay a lot (compared to our SaaS subscription price). Usually this dissuades them.
Every so often, we lose a customer -> support dies down -> we can add some real direction and features to the product -> we gain more customers -> we get swamped under support and maintenance. The cycle continues. I don't know what the solution is.
With spreadsheets, the customer can always fall back to cobbling together a new report or visualization by themselves.
http://lookwork.com is a "visual RSS reader," subscribe to RSS feeds minus the words. Sort of a mood/inspiration feed for artists and graphic designers. First launched free around 2012 I think. Then there was a relaunch where we tried to go subscriber-based. At the time, the only online payment options were Paypal (shudder) and Amazon (a mess to configure). The subscription model flopped, so we relaunched free again.…
I get a "sorry you can't use this page on mobile" ... While connecting from up-to-date chrome on win10 desktop!! You are probably weeding out a good chunk of users for no reason.
Back in 2007, I made neverplayalone.com to find activity partners. Within a few days of launch, someone pointed out three things - Meetup was gaining traction, URL sounded risqué, and never to use negative words like never in the URL. In 2010-11, I worked on lug-it.com to let people carry stuff in their luggage for others. It leveraged FB's social graph to engender trust. I just wasn't ready to market and grow the us…
>let people carry stuff in their luggage for others There is no possible way that could go wrong. Especially when TSA or Customs asks: "Are you carrying anything for someone else?" Then you go on to explain, "Oh yeah, I am, but I know them. They are paying me to do it."
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