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

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Post by pessimizer »

vletal wrote: post #52
par wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I don't know about the app store, but a screenshot with a satirical comment superimposed is easy fair use.

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

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Post by paulryanrogers »

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

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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.

What are the legal implications of grabbing from arbitrary video and profiting off derivative works? Is it fair use?

Have you had to moderate to avoid illegal images from getting into the system?

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

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Post by code_duck »

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

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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

Anyone's perception is $5 is affected by their economic class. Globally, there are a significant number of people who would view $5 the same way others view .50.

For me, .15 a day is negligible. I can easily imagine someone who creates memes for social media choosing to pay that, especially if they feel there is value in supporting the creator. Memes aren't frivolity any more than other content - they're one of the most popular forms of communication on the internet.

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

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Post by robocat »

oiegha wrote: post #129
liquidise wrote: post #128

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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.

> Many users are simply whales or people with compulsive disorders.

Your comment might apply to addictive games, but you are being extremely dismissive towards a creative app that isn’t designed to be a slot machine. Who are you to tell others how to spend their time or money?

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

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Post by robocat »

par wrote: post #39
chippy wrote: post #37

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how did you do the experimentations? some kind of AB testing?

I'm embarrassed to say that I never used any formal a/b testing tools. I just fully converted to subscriptions, and ran it for a few weeks, and compared it to the previous few weeks (which were one time purchase.)

> embarrassed

That’s a shame because it seems like you did the smart and effective solution without wasting your time. A/B testing isn’t needed if the signal is clear enough (¡parachute testing!), and it is hard to get enough samples for a weak signal. Good on you.

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

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Post by lrem »

pessimizer wrote: post #131
vletal wrote: post #52

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

I don't know about the app store, but a screenshot with a satirical comment superimposed is easy fair use.

Only if the comment is about the screenshot itself though. https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU has some sad explanation.

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

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Post by mritchie712 »

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…

Working on something for hackers who hate marketing: wax.run

Basically outsourced growth

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