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Posted a video demo on YouTube and keep getting the few odd messages once a month asking if it’s available for sale but I’m still clueless on how to properly validate whether it’ll sell.
To make it a complete product would require a lot of time which I don’t have right now
It was a time when mobile plans were still costly, so free calls over the internet sounded good. We got a hotel to implement our service, but it didn't get much use, we killed it a few months later.
Overall it was a few months of work, and I don't regret doing it, but looking back, it probably wasn't a great business model.
Wrote an addin for Excel which offloaded workbook computation to the GPU for about 10-20x speed improvement. Posted a video demo on YouTube and keep getting the few odd messages once a month asking if it’s available for sale but I’m still clueless on how to properly validate whether it’ll sell. To make it a complete product would require a lot of time which I don’t have right now
This is your validation! People are literally reaching out to you asking if they can give you money for it.
I built a hotel PMS system in 9 months without trying to sell it first to hoteliers (no industry experience, talked only to 1 hotel owner). Found out it's hard to sell it, even if almost/fully free. https://hoteliera.com/
Read 25 years computer news, summarized OLED touchscreens since 2018. Amazon "Google Phone News September 2020 micro LED TV, 5 nano meter chips" published after edited (by price, some alphabetical) chapters like cheap, solid state battery. I paid for a little advertising but those already in industry more interested than business people. LibreOffice needs Android update.
My interpretation of the comment:
For the past two years (i.e. since 2018), I've read and summarised 25 years of computer news. Finally published this year after editing/adding some chapters, like one about SSDs. You can find it by searching on Amazon "Google Phone News September 2020 micro LED TV, 5 nano meter chips". I paid for a little advertisement [to no success].
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-News-2018-19-micro-meter-ebo...
I built a really simple way to poll 50 random people in the US. It's called This or That and functionality is currently very simple. You submit a question along with two images via SMS and you get your answer back usually within the hour. I've had a few people use to test new logo ideas, to ask which of two TV shows to watch, or which outfit looks best. So far no one has paid for it, only a few hundred free users, bu…
Interesting. How do you incentivise the opinion givers to actually consider the options instead of just efficiently (randomly) selecting an answer?
If the side with the most votes is the side you chose, you get 2 points. If the side with the most votes is not the side that you chose, then you get only a single point.
I built a hotel PMS system in 9 months without trying to sell it first to hoteliers (no industry experience, talked only to 1 hotel owner). Found out it's hard to sell it, even if almost/fully free. https://hoteliera.com/
For any accommodation business, their existing data is very valuable (planning, customer service, advertising, accounting). This creates lock in and makes them reluctant to switch. To sell it, you need to address this.
It wasn't a big serious project or anything, but for my first income generating project ever I made a small single player word game for Android that I should have tried to monetise more. Android had only been out for a couple of years at the time so it was easier to get noticed then. The game was free with an ad-banner during gameplay. I was making a decent amount in ad clicks and also had players emailing me for a p…
It's a really fun game. I was a little frustrated by some words which didn't seem to be recognized - I think 'rome' and 'zen' were two, whereas much more obscure words were accepted.
Hmm, Zen was recently added to Scrabble in 2018 though as it's a proper noun but has started being used as an adjective:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zen-and-the-art-of-scrabble-dic...
It wasn't a big serious project or anything, but for my first income generating project ever I made a small single player word game for Android that I should have tried to monetise more. Android had only been out for a couple of years at the time so it was easier to get noticed then. The game was free with an ad-banner during gameplay. I was making a decent amount in ad clicks and also had players emailing me for a p…
Cool game. Spelling June didn't register a valid answer.
The original had a wall-of-text pop-up of the rules when you first started that I want to avoid and I'd rather players picked up the rules organically. Maybe showing a "proper nouns and capitalised words not allowed" message when you spelled one would be a nice approach but a list of such words would be massive and inaccurate.
I think people generally figure out this rule as they play more but I admit it's not ideal!
I tried to launch a Kickstarter for a project called CoinCard. Basically it's a leather, credit card sized holder for coins where each coin slips into a perfectly sized slot for that coin. I still use one the prototypes in my wallet today. I learned a ton about leather and manufacturing, a bit about videography, and what it takes to launch a kickstarter (much more than you think). Ultimately not enough people wanted…