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

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yawaworht1978 wrote: post #106

Good job, may I ask , what was your marketing strategy? Did you engage a lead generation company, SEO? How did you gain visibility in the virtual shops? Used social media for promotion? Pricing structure? If those questions are too profound, feel free to not address them, but either way, this is impressive for a solo Indy dev. And what is the tech stack? Do you listen to users feature requests and bug reports? I have…

I have not engaged in any outside marketing consultancy, lead gen or SEO. I have done some stuff myself, written blog posts and tried my hand at basic marketing tasks, but honestly i don't have much time for it. For gaining visibility, i mostly rely on app store optimization or paid ads.

Tech stack is swift, and python on the backend. I do listen to user requests and bugs, in fact I get tons of great feedback from my users with how quickly i respond to their issues, usually resolving issues within an hour, all on my own. It takes up a decent chunk of time, but I do care a lot about the customers, so that makes it worth it.

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

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Post by par »

tyingq wrote: post #116
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?

Hard to argue when it's making non-trivial revenue. I was surprised people would pay a subscription for a meme tool too, but...

but here we are :)

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

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zfxfr wrote: post #103

It looks like the Android version is not accessible or the link contains a mistake. Or you removed it from Google play store ? If so why ?

seems like it was just taken down by my friend... the android version is woefully out of date. Sorry about that. I am removing the links now.

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

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Post by inetknght »

orangea wrote: post #114
inetknght wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What would be the downside of one's internet activity being public? Are you for real? Want to know what your employer has you working on? Let's see what searches you've done. Want to know what your employees are doing? Let's see what things they're buying. Fuck that obnoxious bullshit.

Yes I am for real and I genuinely don't see why either of those things are bad.

Well your employer probably doesn't want you to leak work to competitors.

You probably don't want your employer to know that you have cancer, are hiding a fling, and could soon have family problems requiring you to take a leave of absence.

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

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Post by liquidise »

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

If you think someone's paying customers are "debasing themselves", it probably says more about you not being the target market than a negative critique of the customers themselves.

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

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Post by oiegha »

liquidise wrote: post #128
asddubs wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If you think someone's paying customers are "debasing themselves", it probably says more about you not being the target market than a negative critique of the customers themselves.

I disagree. Many users are simply whales or people with compulsive disorders. Not everyone genuinely "enjoys" the model more so than being stuck to it.

Not saying there aren't people who truly like it. There are. But not everyone who uses it does.

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

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Post by orangea »

inetknght wrote: post #126
orangea wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I am for real and I genuinely don't see why either of those things are bad.

Well your employer probably doesn't want you to leak work to competitors. You probably don't want your employer to know that you have cancer, are hiding a fling, and could soon have family problems requiring you to take a leave of absence.

Personally I'm not convinced by those arguments, because

- I think it should be my right to share the details of my work with anyone.

- It's already illegal to discriminate against people because they have cancer, and I don't think that imperfect enforcement of privacy on the internet is going to significantly affect anyone's chances of this happening to them.

- If someone does something and faces consequences for it, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Honestly seeing people's responses here and elsewhere on the internet is kind of a Kafkaesque experience for me because everyone seems so convinced that internet privacy is valuable yet no one seems to actually have thought through their position (no offense to you personally). I guess I can only conclude that my base values differ in this area.

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