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I quit my job over a year ago. Been bootstrapped on savings. I picked up a gig last year and only made $30K in 2019. Hoping my efforts pay off.
Dropped it on producthunt, hope you get some boost there!
I quit my job over a year ago. Been bootstrapped on savings. I picked up a gig last year and only made $30K in 2019. Hoping my efforts pay off.
I’m sure it will. How long did you spend working in this before the first release? (Is this the first release)
Back in April I started cold calling (IG DMs) and got a paying customer. Been working with them closely and I tend to enjoy product more than marketing.
Now I am just saying screw it let's ship and if things break oh well. It's not like I am launching a rocket into space.
Kudos! You have to admire anyone for executing on a launch this well as a solo dev. SaaS products targeting the more casual professional have a huge potential to grow right now. IMO the killer feature will be the seamless import/export of content from phones to Web UI to social media account. Any platform allowing a frictionless experience in this regard will open the market to the much broader audience, which I thin…
It's something I would like to do. If anyone knows folks inside Instagram connect me Ill ship it.
I am trying to have an agnostic approach and focused on leaving things in the cloud as much as possible without too much extra upload/download time.
Congrats Michael! Your hard work over the last few months is evident. I wish you only the best from here onwards!
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umm... are all these people pushing to increase price serious? I know you want to encourage, but After Effects is "only" $20/mth.
> pushing to increase price serious? I agree. I'm puzzled why this is getting so much excitement, it's hardly in the ballpark of "After Effects".
I spent years learning to code. Dropped everything to live in a car in Silicon Valley so I didn't have to work at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.
I then worked my way up to a $200k salary. Quit that to pursue being an entrepreneur.
Last year I made $20k and risked it all for this.
Thanks for your time and energy checking it out though. I'm looking forward to your version and if you have a role then I will gladly come work for you.
Cheers
This is really cool, love the niche this fits into — and for other future founders, there's a lot of low hanging Adobe apps which could follow this path: Audition? Acrobat? One thing I would suggest: increase your prices, at least at the top end. $83/month for the Business plan is way too cheap. At least put an extra zero on there.
Im always on the side of charging more where it makes sense. Still learning the market.
I am doing B2B integrations where they get access to the tool embedded in their product and an S3 link sent to their system for $20k annual.
This breaks down to $1.6 monthly.
This is impressive! You've sold me on the product, and I'm excited to see how this product develops over the coming months and years.
This obsession with "stories" is getting out of hand. It's like that horrible "Made with Love" trend from a few years ago.
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> pushing to increase price serious? I agree. I'm puzzled why this is getting so much excitement, it's hardly in the ballpark of "After Effects".
Let's see your product that you've coded? I spent years learning to code. Dropped everything to live in a car in Silicon Valley so I didn't have to work at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. I then worked my way up to a $200k salary. Quit that to pursue being an entrepreneur. Last year I made $20k and risked it all for this. Thanks for your time and energy checking it out though. I'm looking forward to your vers…
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> pushing to increase price serious? I agree. I'm puzzled why this is getting so much excitement, it's hardly in the ballpark of "After Effects".
Let's see your product that you've coded? I spent years learning to code. Dropped everything to live in a car in Silicon Valley so I didn't have to work at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. I then worked my way up to a $200k salary. Quit that to pursue being an entrepreneur. Last year I made $20k and risked it all for this. Thanks for your time and energy checking it out though. I'm looking forward to your vers…
You're in your emotions whereas you should be making calculated moves to increase your chances of success, off of free exposure you're getting here on HackerNews.
Your project looks really nice, it is nowhere close to the feature set AfterEffects offers and that's a fact - it has nothing to do with you as a person or your journey.
Furthermore, your project is not competing with AfterEffects, it is competing with Fiverr or not bothering with adding 'effects' to videos at all.