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Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by par »

nickthegreek wrote: post #47
javiermaestro wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone is willing to pay $5 a month for a meme app! XD Are the users active? Have you thought / analyzed if they pay and forget that it's a subscription? :-?

Same, but on the other hand memers do seem to take their craft seriously. While I wouldn't want to pay monthly for this app as I would use it a few times a year (I'll just fire up photoshop), I guess its not too much cash for users serious about creating. Apparently you can make some good cash focusing on a niche user market.

Something interesting I found is that the many of the 'power users' of the meme world have many different meme making apps and they pay for most of them!

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by vletal »

par wrote: post #46
javiermaestro wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone is willing to pay $5 a month for a meme app! XD Are the users active? Have you thought / analyzed if they pay and forget that it's a subscription? :-?

Yes the users are quite active. The main thing people are paying for are the video features and the video scraper. There is some code which allows the app to pull videos from youtube, instagram, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc, and I think that is really the thing that separates this app from other generic image editors.

From YouTube? I thought that such app would get rejected from App Store...

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by asddubs »

par wrote: post #13
nickthegreek wrote: post #5

I loathe apps that want a subscription for such a trivial concept. Why did you choose this route over ad support or one time payment?

I don't get enough volume for ad support to be meaningful, and i didnt want to ruin the experience with ads. Before subscriptions, for a long time it was a one time purchase only. Then some VC's suggested i experiment with subscriptions, and I was very hesitant and semi grossed out. But I decided to give it a try, and I was seriously amazed that my conversion was barely impacted, and the same people buying one time p…

I'm surprised as well. I respect the hustle, but I honestly don't understand why anyone would debase themselves by paying $5 a month to make memes

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by par »

gramakri wrote: post #55

I am seeing "Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" in firefox. Here's a screenshot - https://imgur.com/a/SzVS75Q Same in chrome. The cert is wrong, it has the cert of "search.dnsadvantage.com"

Hmm, i just installed a new SSL certificate today, but it seems to be installed correctly. Can you try some kind of refresh or a different browser?

edit: oh, please try https://metameme.app

edit: the cert should be sectigo https://imgur.com/a/jb91a0z

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by par »

asddubs wrote: post #54
par wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get enough volume for ad support to be meaningful, and i didnt want to ruin the experience with ads. Before subscriptions, for a long time it was a one time purchase only. Then some VC's suggested i experiment with subscriptions, and I was very hesitant and semi grossed out. But I decided to give it a try, and I was seriously amazed that my conversion was barely impacted, and the same people buying one time p…

I'm surprised as well. I respect the hustle, but I honestly don't understand why anyone would debase themselves by paying $5 a month to make memes

a lot of my users run fairly large instagram pages (50k+ followers), so for them it's quite worth it I think.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by par »

gldev3 wrote: post #53

I enjoy seeing posts like these, good for you pal. Is it hard to maintain? Is this just side income? :)

Thank you! It doesn't take a lot of maintenance, mostly side income at this point. But I have put in a LOT of hours on it over the years. I will work on it in bursts, and take a few weeks and work on it 3-5 hours a day, and then not work on it at all for a while. I do need to keep the image library fresh, but that is pretty easy. To be honest, if I worked a bit more on it, I think it could do a lot better.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by smhenderson »

pixiemaster wrote: post #33
par wrote: post #16

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thanks, writing copy is not my strong suit, and this was after many iterations.

actually it’s quite to the point, no fuss, clear value proposition.

And it comes across as just whimsically sarcastic enough to fit in with the overall subject really well.

If that wasn't intentional, even better!

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