May be a little bit modern design?
Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
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Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#62May be a little bit modern design?
Do you say the same to HN?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#63Hire someone who has done this exact thing at another startup. You don't know how to do it, and even if you learn a few things here and there, you're clearly not an expert in marketing (just based off your post.) Not trying to offend you, but I'm being straight - hire someone. Someone good, who has done exactly this before, preferably several times, at several different companies, with several different strategies. S…
Presuming that there’s a market for this service, which will support your recommendation, is reckless, and ill-informed. Please, don’t listen to this person. You’ll lose all of the ground you have gained, in the hopes of attaining something that does not exist.
> Presuming that there’s a market for this service, which will support your recommendation, is reckless, and ill-informed.
They're making 8k a month with a product that their own customers are saying is criminally underpriced. How can you possibly entertain the idea that there's no market for this service?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#64$8k/mo revenue is great, but what's the profit?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#65Congratulations! I admire your tenacity and commitment. However, > We have not spent much on paid user acquisition Why not spend on paid acquisition? A bit of marketing and sales focus would have gotten you to $8k in 2 years, not 10. I see so many great products on HN that take years to takeoff simply because the founders refuse to market it. Good products deserve to be more widely known so more people can use them.…
> We have not spent much on paid user acquisition, we experimented with it a bit a few years ago without positive results.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#66Congratulations! I admire your tenacity and commitment. However, > We have not spent much on paid user acquisition Why not spend on paid acquisition? A bit of marketing and sales focus would have gotten you to $8k in 2 years, not 10. I see so many great products on HN that take years to takeoff simply because the founders refuse to market it. Good products deserve to be more widely known so more people can use them.…
As someone with similar project growth, I've played around with things like Adwords and generally failed or had a negative experience, wasting money with no results. Marketing seems... hard, and I don't really gave the funds to hire a professional.
My main project is ad supported, rather than subscription, so that might make it harder.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#67Great job and good luck!
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#68Please optimize your website for mobile use. I visited your main landing page on my phone and was not able to read anything but the larger headlines without zooming in. In my opinion this adds friction and increases bounce rate a lot. Depending on your traffic, it could be well worth it to add some CSS media queries to make this layout more responsive. I think plenty of people check websites out on mobile first, then…
Yes, agreed - making it mobile friendly is fairly high on the todo list.
Are you taking portfolios/examples/resumes for help with this?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#69How did you get your first 100 customers ?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#70Great to hear your success. I've been in a similar price range and recently updated my pricing from $10.99 to $23.99 a month.
While MRR has jumped, be careful with churn, trial conversion rate, and even chargebacks.
Where people love the service and see the value, moving up market means new issues. Also LTV is better but not dramatically as people may let the lower cost subscription ride longer out of laziness or whatever.
I like your idea, and could use it. I could see highlighting use cases and making tiers for those. "Personal", "Marketer", and "Developer" come to mind.
I say dev as I can't test my onboarding easily as Stripe doesn't honor gmail's + extension and testing is a pain without new email accounts.
Hope that is useful.
GL