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Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Post by Tichy »

Revisor wrote: post #21
points wrote: post #19

What a weird creepy service. Only in America...

Seriously, who buys something like this? Even as a joke it's weak and drags on for at least a month. I can imagine it's not funny anymore after several days. Like canned laughter.

Might be a great gift for your enemy.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Post by philk »

Revisor wrote: post #21
points wrote: post #19

What a weird creepy service. Only in America...

Seriously, who buys something like this? Even as a joke it's weak and drags on for at least a month. I can imagine it's not funny anymore after several days. Like canned laughter.

It's going to be a certain slice of the self improvement community. Probably the slice that reads The Secret and believes that affirmations work.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Post by petercooper »

houseabsolute wrote: post #13
coryl wrote: post #12

Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting). Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?

Pffft. I'd farm the work out to mechanical Turk. Then you don't even have to do the work yourself. :) Much more scalable and less annoying too. You could even have them call you occasionally for verification they're really putting their hearts into it.

Even better, offer a discounted service to people who agree to make a few calls themselves ;-) It could run itself.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Post by Estragon »

houseabsolute wrote: post #13
coryl wrote: post #12

Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting). Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?

Pffft. I'd farm the work out to mechanical Turk. Then you don't even have to do the work yourself. :) Much more scalable and less annoying too. You could even have them call you occasionally for verification they're really putting their hearts into it.

Quality control would be quite a challenge. The occasional verification call wouldn't cut it.

Re: AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

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Post by jacquesm »

jeromec wrote: post #25

I'm LMFAO. This is great, and now because people see this is getting usage, it will get more usage, more coverage, and then more usage lol. Nice job AR :)

It's the most literal interpretation of 'make something people want' that you could possibly do, make them feel loved.

To identify an human need like this and to have the guts to follow through on it is really something special, the funniest thing of all is that in the same thread where Zack launched this he was told off by people telling him to spend more time on his projects or nothing would ever take off :)

I agree with you that this could easily snowball, and for those that are not convinced of the use, (no, I'm not a user) there are plenty of people for who a daily sign of life from the rest of the world would make a huge difference.

Who knows, maybe one day your medical insurance will refund you your http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/ subscription fee :)

Another thing that might happen is that the service will branch out in to other fields once a large enough customerbase has been created, the customers themselves will probably start supplying ideas.

It's a golden recipe, dial-out to people that are happy to take your call because they know you will try to make them feel good, instead of calling them to sell them something.

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