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Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by qmmmur »

crazygringo wrote: post #76
bob1029 wrote: post #2

I am really struggling to figure out what this is or how it provides value. Edit: This discussion isn't exactly what I was hoping for. I was looking for ways to better highlight the features or value proposition of this site. Not defenestrate it altogether. E.g.: A simple modal that says "Welcome to SQLite Online! You can with this tool." would have radically altered my initial perception.

Yup, I think it would be a big help if the home page ('/') was a landing page explaining who it's for and why, and why. Is this for students? For prototyping? For quick analysis? Sample data? Importing real data? Use cases are key. And then have a big hero button leading to the the actual tool ('/app' or '/playground' or whatever). Maybe preloaded with different sample data depending on the use case. Right now, being…

Can’t people decide themselves what it’s for?

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by benibela »

bob1029 wrote: post #2

I am really struggling to figure out what this is or how it provides value. Edit: This discussion isn't exactly what I was hoping for. I was looking for ways to better highlight the features or value proposition of this site. Not defenestrate it altogether. E.g.: A simple modal that says "Welcome to SQLite Online! You can with this tool." would have radically altered my initial perception.

At first I thought that was about SQLite development itself

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by senordevnyc »

awongh wrote: post #53
qarthandyc wrote: post #36

I'd highly suggest getting a designer, or somehow thinking with more of a product mindset? I fail to understand what it does quickly, which shouldn't happen to a potential customer.

11k daily users is very good even without this so-called "product mindset"!

The dev is asking on the site for people to support the development with subscriptions, but they say here they have basically zero subscribers. So 11k daily users hasn't translated to something that people want to actually pay to support. That could change.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by eli »

necovek wrote: post #80
redox99 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird you show the price in some currency I don't even know what it is (even if it says 10 dollars small next to it). Just show and charge 10 USD. You can localize that other currency (Rubles?) if GeoIP matches.

It's possible the local legislation disallows charging in non-local currency. Eg. can you charge in rubles in USA?

Sure, you could charge in hotdogs if you wanted to.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by rs186 »

maelito wrote: post #44
qarthandyc wrote: post #36

I'd highly suggest getting a designer, or somehow thinking with more of a product mindset? I fail to understand what it does quickly, which shouldn't happen to a potential customer.

No, please. Don't inflate the team to something that would need investors. It's cool that an alter-Web can exist without 10 person teams.

It is very straightforward to hire UX designer in a contract, or even just ask ChatGPT to design an interface that is better than a software engineer's minimum effort (and possibly experience) in UX.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by igregoryca »

maelito wrote: post #44
qarthandyc wrote: post #36

I'd highly suggest getting a designer, or somehow thinking with more of a product mindset? I fail to understand what it does quickly, which shouldn't happen to a potential customer.

No, please. Don't inflate the team to something that would need investors. It's cool that an alter-Web can exist without 10 person teams.

If you're making enough money, you can hire a designer every now and then to tell you where your UX suffers and how to fix it. No investors necessary.

(or: just solicit feedback in a space frequented by designers, and harness the power of being wrong on the internet ;)

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by bdcravens »

hu3 wrote: post #9
sqliteonline wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, unfortunately, almost zero.

Thanks for sharing. Still valuable for me in any interview if someone says they kept a service up for 11 years. Shows determination.

Or stubborness :-)

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by gregsadetsky »

sqliteonline wrote: post #8
hu3 wrote: post #6

Cool project. Congrats for keeping it up for so long! Could you share some numbers like a ballpark of subscribers?

Thank you, unfortunately, almost zero.

hey, not to give you "armchair" advice, but I feel like a tool that's existed for 11 years and has 11k daily users is a super serious achievement.

I'd vicariously love for you to be able to make some/more revenue with this!

+1 on @redox99's comment that charging in rubles is most probably confusing, and that a flat $10 usd/month would be easier. I also would think that renewal should actually be on by default, not off - if people want the service and/or to support you, having auto renewal off is more of a hassle for them (the customers who want to pay you!) as they'd have to have to... re-enable their service? every 30-90 days?

and another point I wanted to bring up is that it feels to me like a small text-based advertisement from ethicalads.io (the folks behind the ads on Read the Docs sites) or carbonads.net (btw I have no affiliation to either) could definitely... bring in some not-bad revenue pretty much immediately?

again, huge congrats on your project and I truly wish you'll be able to find some path to monetization. cheers!

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by foofoo12 »

sqliteonline wrote: post #16
tecleandor wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also get the glyph message on my Firefox 144.0b8 and it runs fast here, so I guess that shouldn't be the reason... RTCPeerConnection is available in Firefox and Chrome since 2017... son unless the browser is veeery old... Maybe something blocking RTC?

Yes, the issue may be caused by WebRTC being disabled in your browser settings.

The right thing to do it to handle that gracefully on the website and inform the user.
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