I have always been planning to do something like this.
Can you share your timeline ( from inception to prod).
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
im not sure the "amateur" needs changing, it could be used to point more users to middle tier, we have something like that, where we call our first tier something that like that, and the second "smart" and people take the second one. also there is a decoy effect. we push our middle tier like that without "fake" most popular tier badge. we don't have a free tier.
Amateur, at least in common American English, is virtually never used in a positive or neutral sense. It should definitely be changed in anything marketing-related.
I'm another American English speaker chiming in to say that this is not true anywhere I've lived. I had never even heard your belief expressed before.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amateur has no negative connotations to me (as a native English speaker from the Midwest US). It's comparable to "hobbyist" or "enthusiast", basically meaning "someone who can do X but doesn't get paid for it". I think a lot of people would be proud to be amateur musicians or amateur athletes, for example, and would have said that no (non-professional) customer would not want to be called an amateur. Just shows you h…
Agreed, "amateur" has pretty positive connotations for me in this context (native English speaker from New York).
As a native english speaker from Maryland while it doesnt have any negative connotations, I do feel a word like hobbyist would be better
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#104Can I show off a bit about my project too? We make a huge database of user manuals you can check it here https://manualsbrain.com/en/
This is textbook copyright violation.
Scraping other people's content and then watermarking it with your brand while showing ads?
You're just buying time until someone big enough cares about what you are doing.
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#105Which project is this so that the rest of us can check it out and get inspired properly?
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#106Congrats for getting from zero to one! It seems like you have some product market fit, that's really great. As others have pointed out, I'd recommend: - please rename "amateur" to something more positive. no customer wants to be called an amateur - Increase prices for the pro tier - Improve your "pricing plan" page, take a look at other (more successful) SaaS products and change button labels accordingly. Just take t…
Try: "Getting Started"
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#108Thank you for this thread.
Fellow indie hacker here, I'm proud to join the celebration that my product Remote Leaf just acquired 20 paying customers and it's started paying my coffee for a month :)
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#109Congrats for getting from zero to one! It seems like you have some product market fit, that's really great. As others have pointed out, I'd recommend: - please rename "amateur" to something more positive. no customer wants to be called an amateur - Increase prices for the pro tier - Improve your "pricing plan" page, take a look at other (more successful) SaaS products and change button labels accordingly. Just take t…
Amateur has no negative connotations to me (as a native English speaker from the Midwest US). It's comparable to "hobbyist" or "enthusiast", basically meaning "someone who can do X but doesn't get paid for it". I think a lot of people would be proud to be amateur musicians or amateur athletes, for example, and would have said that no (non-professional) customer would not want to be called an amateur. Just shows you h…
"Amateur" has some negative connotations (as another native speaker). It's often used an inferior comparison to "professional". Just search "amateur hour" to yield a stream of disparanging comments.
https://twitter.com/search?q=amateur%20hour&src=typed_query
I would definitely use "enthusiast" over "amateur" (or other variants, e.g. fan, fanatic, lover, or a label that's specific to in-group members of the genre, if one exists). I'd also suggest a-b testing all the things to end the speculation.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any chance we could check it out?
Sure: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veggie-garden-planner/id132992... Suggestions are always welcome. My friend is also working on an Android version, though it doesn't have feature parity (yet).
I would use it. My wife would use it. Then I read the comment about being iOS only.
Fingers crossed for the future of your friend's work.