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Ashish Kumar (Ashfame) 🐲

@Ashfame

Decentralization evangelist, Entrepreneur, Life hacker, Backend engineer. Cyberpunk @ Woodpckr.com | Building AirGapped Crypto Vault live on stream
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Perhaps one section for showing todos of products that we follow + one section for random stream of all products (so that more can be discovered).

Yep, aggregating on your own (manual/scraping automatically) would be the first steps to gain initial momentum.

Then once it looks like its not a ghost town, let people post for free in the beginning (they would again only post if they think they stand to benefit from posting).

Then try getting it featured / covered in blogs / press.

Then once you see traffic starts building up or people start posting jobs on their own, introduce paid listings for highlighting certain posts to stand out.

And once you have managed to keep it going, turn paid listing with a small pricing which you will keep on increasing regulating the supply-demand.

Sounds great! Thanks for the detailed walk through!

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New features? None. Its already a quite solved problem.

Thanks for replying! I think I could build something faster. I also like the fact that it's a very well defined problem with well defined solutions, it means I could build it and complete it and then just focus on selling it.

FWIW, if building it is the easy part, I recommend validating first you can sell it. (Applies to any easily developed product.)

Not an answer, but you are probably looking for people who chose Slack for their community or organisation rather than slack users, no?

Good point. Yes, people in charge of using Slack for their organization. Not end users. Thanks for clarifying.

What I said could be one approach to implement it.

Otherwise you add a product randomly based on a certain action and then hide the product details on cart and checkout page & let them buy it. Afterwards, its revealed on its own?

Found this on Google. If its true, its BS - www.google.co.in/imgres?imgur…

Can’t remember exactly, but it’s a full-service solution. They handle support etc.

Do you know how does FastSpring pricing looks like? Their pricing page doesn't even say that.

Found this on Google. If its true, its BS - www.google.co.in/imgres?imgur…

Can’t remember exactly, but it’s a full-service solution. They handle support etc.

If I understand it right, you want to have customers pay for a product and then afterwards decide what product they will get (Randomised)? This should be done by having a standalone product which people buy. And then later on, fulfilment of a randomised product is done with some logic on order status reaching complete status. Downloadables can be granted access + Physical product needs to be plugged into your shipping logic (this can get complicated if you are already using a plugin to do fulfilment, easier to plug the logic in your own fulfilment processing code).

Not quite. Really, this is what I’m after...

  • user purchases a product, but doesn’t know what the product is yet.
  • after the payment is processed, the site reveals what the user just purchased (along with transaction email)

I can spend a bit of time writing the logic for all this without woocommerce myself, I was just wanting to throw together a very quick MVP as a proof of concept - hence the want for a plug-in or similar.

What I said could be one approach to implement it.

Otherwise you add a product randomly based on a certain action and then hide the product details on cart and checkout page & let them buy it. Afterwards, its revealed on its own?

Cheap SAAS? There are existing solutions which offer free tiers but the first paid plan is a steep climb.
Self hosted solutions are pain to maintain. It can only act as good marketing. Its the constant ongoing maintenance & support people are actually paying for.

I myself want a basic log viewing and aggregating system but don't want to pay a lot. Its just about SSH'ing into the server and tailing the file for me. But being able to see live streams of logs in a UI can be cool + alerts functionality.

But before any of that, how are you going to collect logs and send them to your server?