Hi yes. Been meaning to reply. The current way is like you do. Create the todo on the homepage and then check the checkbox.
I agree it's a bit annoying and counter intuitive. The vast majority of todos on WIP are immediately completed and never in a pending state. So I will change it such that the checkbox is already visible when creating the todo + automaticlaly check if by default for you.
Oh that's a really interesting idea!
I've been wanting to build a "share your Stripe numbers" product since before it was cool, but never found a good model.
Some mechanic where a user can unlock it seems really interesting.
Have you seen home.omg.lol yet? I signed up for a 10-year account recently because the app works well, and it was $50 ($5/year).
I point it out to you because it does an amazing amount of community building as add-on value which I think is brilliant. Not sure how many of these are relevant to WIP, but I bet reading their offerings might give you some ideas.
Hi Luke, I never formally welcomed you here so here it goes: welcome to WIP :)
Mused seems really cool and your signup numbers confirm it.
For those server costs, have you reached out to your hosting provider to see if they are willing to sponsor you? Or perhaps some other hosting providers? Your tech is really cool, so I can imagine a forward-looking provider would want to be associated with it. Even if NeRF tech you use isn't directly related to their products.
For long-term monetization, it's hard to predict what would work. I think it's a matter of trying a bunch of things. Try to get into a routine of trying one new monetization approach every week or so. Put yourself out there in different fields to increase your "luck surface". Create a bunch of different applications for Muse and share them on relevant sites.
Also make it easy for someone that sees your work, to reach out and share feedback with you. This could lead to new ideas you haven't thought of yet.
I'd also follow up with some of the press that already covered you. I could totally see National Graphic become a customer for example.
Hey Marc, thanks again for the invite, and great idea on testing a new version every week. I'll start doing that. I've never had subscription revenue before, so it's important learning from everyone here.
I'm on Google Cloud Platform right now, and they sponsored me 2,000 USD but will sponsor 200,000 USD if I get venture funded... which I was kind of torn about because it would pay for a lot of GPUs. Azure has a similar program I was testing out.
Great idea about Natgeo too.. I'll reach out to them.
It seems like virtual tourism is hit- or content-focused right now so have been testing out nerfs to try to differentiate to help other creators instead.
Interesting idea, but right now the target market seems quite generic which might make it difficult to find customers.
Have you thought about targetting a specific niche?
Yeah this isn't reflected in the website (yet) but was thinking more specifically about non-tech, probably older, professions like lawyers, doctors, etc.
Would not be going after the same audience that Squarespace or any other traditional 'website builder' is really targeting, but more for people who may not even think they need a website or haven't looked into it too deeply.
Hey Alex, welcome to WIP!
Can tell you're a full-time designer. Love the design of your products 😍
With regards to finding distribution: Don't worry about scale early on. Just start out finding customers manually. Once you found a process/channel that works, only then can you really start thinking about ways to make it more efficient and scale it up.
Which of your products has shown the most potential in terms of adoption? How did the customers find out about it? And is that something you can replicate?
Yep totally agree - think I really just need to pick one of these I feel conviction on and spend energy trying to get the first 1, 10, 20 customers.
fiftydollarwebsite.webflow.io/ - is the newest one that I'll be working on next and will see how initial customer acquisition goes for that.
Interesting idea, but right now the target market seems quite generic which might make it difficult to find customers.
Have you thought about targetting a specific niche?
Yeah this isn't reflected in the website (yet) but was thinking more specifically about non-tech, probably older, professions like lawyers, doctors, etc.
Would not be going after the same audience that Squarespace or any other traditional 'website builder' is really targeting, but more for people who may not even think they need a website or haven't looked into it too deeply.
Hi Ana! Here's some quick feedback:
There's a lot of text on the page before we get to the price, and call-to-action. I'd try and remove as much text as possible.
Show, don't tell. You've got a visual product, so just visually show how it works and the steps it takes. Rather than explaining it through text.
You do a good job at this further down the page showing the input versus output images.
I'd add an arrow in between to signify you turn left into right.
Even after removing a lot of the text, you'll still have quite a bit left probably. That text I'd left-center if it spans more than 2-3 lines. Because centered text is hard to read. Especialyl if it's many lines.
The text could also be a bit bolder. Considering you have a busy background (photo instead of solid color), having the text be a bit stronger makes it easier to read.
As for the product itself, I think it's an interesting idea and quite timely. I'd love to see a bit more variety in the photos you generate though (right now they all seem to be roughly the same pose?) and maybe go the extra mile and turn it into a virtual postcard with a handwritten note, etc.
I think the easiest way to make that technically is to just generate that looks how you want the postcard to look, and then use a "url-to-screenshot" service to automatically turn that into an image.
For example we have wip.co/@AnaMariaGhita/card which we take a screenshot of and then is used as the social media card when sharing your profile on Twitter, etc.
You can do something similar to generate a bunch of postcards with dynamic text (as entered by the user) with a nice "handwritten"-like font.
Or you can just have your customers share a link to this postcard webpage instead.
If you then also provide people with a way to send these cards to their friends/family, you can get a viral loop going where you and convert those recipients into customer as well.
Best of luck and happy holidays!
@marc Thank you so much for all the great feedback and ideas. We will do what we can to implement before the launch and the rest will follow.
For example the virtual postcard with a handwritten note is something that we consider the next step, so we will see if this is doable in this iteration.
Thanks again for your time and ideas
THIS 👉 [@marc said] "provide people with a way to send these cards to their friends/family, you can get a viral loop going where you and convert those recipients into customer as well."
This will be much more viral if you don't force people to do too much for themselves.
Email: Of course, allow people to download the images, but also give people an easy way to input 3-5 email addresses and send the image as an e-card.
Traditional Mail: [upsell] for an additional fee (yay upsells!), allow people to input 3-5 postal addresses and a short message and send the image as a physical postcard (or letter) by integrating with the thanks.io API. It's super simple and affordable. Allow them to purchase more than 5 (or blocks of 5 maybe? you decide whatever's easiest). Thanks also can do letters or gift cards, so you can get creative with upsell packages.
Social: [upsell] Offer a pack of special holiday-themed Couples Social Images sized for profile images and social header/banner images in the sizes needed for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. They can download the images as a zip. Some couples really love to do shared things on their social accounts (esp for Halloween, Christmas, and New Year's), why not make it easier!
I love the idea of a physical postcard! we would definitely add this features in future!
I check your API, all i have see for now where not easy to use, like custom price or whatever
@martindonadieu Not sure I understand. Thanks.io isn't my service, just a good service I use to send postcards. I'm happy to answer any questions if I can.
yea i mean the one you shared ahah !
thanks a lot i didn't found that one direct my initial research
thanks @marc for the feedback!
here is the link for the postcard page if you wanna roast it too ^^
aiholiday.cards/?id=Yj5apN&bg…
Welcome Wassim! The 12 projects in 12 months approach is a great way to find something with product/market fit 🙌
Thanks Marc! Yes, the aim is to rapidly experiment with multiple concepts. I will probably stick with one or two ideas that make sense in the end.