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I made my first 100$ with a Feedback platform (in the first 3 weeks)

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I made my first 100$ with a Feedback platform (in the first 3 weeks)

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Post by jpaulet »

Hi all!

I'm glad (and surprised) to see that 3 weeks after official launch of https://roastme.xyz I reached 100$ on revenue with direct sales.

I know that this is not MRR but the metrics are quite good for the moment: new visitors coming to site, a 4% of converting rate (users vs paying users), and new experts submissions (almost 20, 1 per day).

I'm working hard to keep improving the site and maintain this revenue over the next months, but I have to struggle with low traffic and increase participation inside my platform. Any advice?

Hope you like it!

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Post by thisisrajat »

First of all great work with the website. Looks amazing. Some things:

- The red color on the banner is too bright. Hurts the eye.

- Why would I use your service rather than something like Reddit's r/roastmystartup?

- Too many pricing verticals and a huge gap between free and first paid option.

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Post by sharmi »

You have launched and got your first customers. That is so cool. congratulations.

The FAQ needs some work. For example,

--> We get inspired from the comedy world, where you put in the middle and receive criticism. In the last times we saw a few of them across the Internet (for instance here). Now, we want to create a specific portal for this.

--> We got inspiration from the comedy world, where you put some one in the middle and they receive criticism from everyone in the room. This model works great for websites as more eyeballs equals multiple perspectives and varied feedback. Here is an example of a web roast. We wanted to create a specific portal for this.

This can obviously be refined further.

Also your activation email ended up in spam. What service do you use to send transactional emails? (This is pure conjecture) Can the domain tld be an issue?

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#9

Post by sharmi »

sharmi wrote: post #8

You have launched and got your first customers. That is so cool. congratulations. The FAQ needs some work. For example, --> We get inspired from the comedy world, where you put in the middle and receive criticism. In the last times we saw a few of them across the Internet (for instance here). Now, we want to create a specific portal for this. --> We got inspiration from the comedy world, where you put some one in the…

Also, there are two pricing tables. One on the home page and one on the page "Price". They show different cost per plan.

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#10

Post by jpaulet »

sharmi wrote: post #8

You have launched and got your first customers. That is so cool. congratulations. The FAQ needs some work. For example, --> We get inspired from the comedy world, where you put in the middle and receive criticism. In the last times we saw a few of them across the Internet (for instance here). Now, we want to create a specific portal for this. --> We got inspiration from the comedy world, where you put some one in the…

Thanks for the feedback, I will take a look at it to improve it.

I use gunmail, I had some issues with email but I thought it was solved, I have to take a further look then.

Thanks again!

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