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Re: Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks

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I remember https://www.linkdrop.co/ tried to do this and the Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19960313 ) appears to be this exact idea. However, it looks like they shifted to using an extension as opposed to a bookmark. Any idea why? Also, curious how many pro subscribers you currently have? I imagine it's pretty difficult to get people on board with a $4/mo tool for personal consumption, unless you mar…

We have 35 pro users right now. But yes, it’s been a tough journey to get them subscribe and most of them have either lifetime access or discounted price. Still learning here, what price would you suggest?

Just to throw numbers around:

  4x engineers @ $10k/month
  50% overhead
  25% net revenue 
Is $75k/month. At $4/month that’s about 18,000 paid users. So 4500 paid users/engineer. Without a free tier and without prepaid lifetime plans.

Twenty dollars a month gets users per engineer down to 1000. A hundred bucks a month gets it down to 200 users per month and then there’s time to develop features and such.

Again, I am just throwing numbers around to provide an example of one way of establishing price. The important thing is that prices close to zero dollars are hard to make work at modest scale because there are a lot of users and not very much money for operating and growing the business.

On the other hand, 1000 users at $4/month is not bad as passive income for a person. That’s a different kind of business model.

Good luck.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have 35 pro users right now. But yes, it’s been a tough journey to get them subscribe and most of them have either lifetime access or discounted price. Still learning here, what price would you suggest?

Just to throw numbers around: 4x engineers @ $10k/month 50% overhead 25% net revenue Is $75k/month. At $4/month that’s about 18,000 paid users. So 4500 paid users/engineer. Without a free tier and without prepaid lifetime plans. Twenty dollars a month gets users per engineer down to 1000. A hundred bucks a month gets it down to 200 users per month and then there’s time to develop features and such. Again, I am just t…

Thank you a lot! :)

Re: Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks

#24

I would love a related tool. Content search engine for my open tabs / bookmarked. Oftentimes, I bookmark or leave a tab open for something to read later but I can't find it later. To be clear, it would index and search said URL.

Please try my https://histre.com/ for this. My email is in my profile if you have any questions.

Will try it out when I have some time... Thanks.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks

#26
this looks like a cool tool.

My problem was that i had collected a lot of such links and simply wasnt able to go thru all. So I had built this app that took all the links in the bookmark and summarized it.

You can check it out at https://www.makemysummary.com anyone is welcome to try it out, it summarizes youtube, podcasts and webpages

If your app has zapier integration then anyone can route their bookmarks via MakeMySummary and get them summarized

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