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Hmm… it seems kind of uncool to post this to me.
Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
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Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
#72How did so many people find out about your app?
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#73Reach out to local businesses and charge them to be featured on your homepage.
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#74I helped my friend build Quordle last year, and before he sold it, he was making a surprising amount off of just donations. Try sticking a kofi link up, it's a pretty quick change.
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#75People respond well to financial transparency. If you have a donation button, show real-time stats on the amount it costs, and the amount that’s been donated. Also because internet, expect 90% of cost to be from abuse, and likewise 90% of your dev time devoted to fighting it.
I second this, since it is an app an online payment makes most sense. A simple donation button with paypal/venmo (or something the locals use) would make reasonable money to cover monthly infra expenses at least.
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#76Patreon. Give everyone free n messages per day. Beyond that, patrons only.
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So you were able to extract the prompt. Hooray. But why did you post it on this thread?
Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
#78There will be local businesses with fairly aggressive marketing. Tons of billboards, on buses, local newspaper, etc. Should be easy to find because they're the ones advertising everywhere. Call them up one by one and say "hey I run [project] that everyone has been using lately, would you be interested in having your business name listed as a sponsor? It'll be shown on 1/4 page loads which is currently 5000 times a da…
Whether this works depends on how comfortable the dev is picking up the phone. I had a local site and was just too terrified to do this, so I just kept my site up unmonetized (unlike OP it wasn't costing anything).
One day two salespeople contacted me and suggested taking over ad sales, and managed to sell thousands (I think it was somewhere between $5k-$10k/month, but it was a long time ago) a month in ads for the site. This was for a city with a population of 200k.
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#79Affiliate pricing perhaps?
Re: Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
#80There will be local businesses with fairly aggressive marketing. Tons of billboards, on buses, local newspaper, etc. Should be easy to find because they're the ones advertising everywhere. Call them up one by one and say "hey I run [project] that everyone has been using lately, would you be interested in having your business name listed as a sponsor? It'll be shown on 1/4 page loads which is currently 5000 times a da…
this sounds like better than insert randomly advertisment from internet. advertisements from local business are more friendly and familiar.
Especially if the bot could be prompted to drop testimonials about local businesses in a really self-aware way.