About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
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About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
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Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#2People on ProductHunt are interested in products in general. The cross over between ProductHunt users to users can, and often is, zero. Getting a ton of traffic from there only means your product is new to people who are interested in seeing new products; there is no reason to believe they're ever going to be customers even if they come and see what you've made.
Not getting any customers from DesignerNews is more of a problem, and probably indicates something is wrong with your call(s) to action. They're obviously not working, or your product isn't useful. Ideally you should have set it up to capture user information before launching, because then you'd be in a position to ask the people who visited why they didn't buy. It's a little late for that now.
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#3I think its a bit of a misconception to think that such a volume in traffic _should_ result in a donation. If one was of the mindset that getting 4k traffic is cool then this would be time for excite but as the expectation has been to make a little off this the outcome is sad.
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#4.colors() isn't exactly groundbreaking and there are plenty of free color scheme apps/sites out there that are more full-featured.
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#5If you make a product based on donations then you should never expect any revenue from it. If you want some revenue from it, then charge your customers.
Also, getting no donation from 4500 visitors is not really bad nor good. People do not donate often (because you can't donate every time someone ask for a donation).
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#6.colors() isn't exactly groundbreaking and there are plenty of free color scheme apps/sites out there that are more full-featured.
That was my thinking too: slick looking and all, but you can actually pretty easily do it yourself if you are a web dev. Most people use truly amazing frameworks for free, I don't think they would donate for this.
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#7visitors != users. With an average visit time of 24 sec, I guess most of the 4500 "users" are people who, like me, found a link, clicked out of curiosity, spent a few seconds figuring out what it was and playing around a bit, and then moved on.
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#8Having looked at the tool, I'm wondering what OP expected. I "used" it for 10 seconds, and am still wondering why I'd need it or what the provided value is over "extract colors and order them in a list". Color scheming shouldn't start in your editor IMHO.
Paid use is based on perceived utility, and donations (to me) go to a perceived need (and if there's utility on top, that's great). This app doesn't cry "I need money to do X", so I'm not sure why the author even expected donations, and "boatloads of traffic" isn't a reason that gets me to donate, really.
Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#9Having looked at the tool, I'm wondering what OP expected. I "used" it for 10 seconds, and am still wondering why I'd need it or what the provided value is over "extract colors and order them in a list". Color scheming shouldn't start in your editor IMHO. Paid use is based on perceived utility, and donations (to me) go to a perceived need (and if there's utility on top, that's great). This app doesn't cry "I need mon…
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Re: About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations
#10If you are looking for donations, make something worth paying for. Personally, I spent 15 seconds on your site, and couldn't find anything of value to me.
The act of making it doesn't entitle you to turnover....