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…
I ended up accepting the vendor lock-in and went with Kindle.
Having tried built my own e-reader app for a few years a long time ago, I can confidently say I'm not a fan at all of the vendor lock-in approach, but ultimately it does still provide me with the best reading experience.
It's also good to know that there are ways to break the DRM so if you ever to move away from Kindle, you should still be able to read those books. Similarly, you can import .epub's etc on your Kindle as well although it might require some work.
Calibre on macOS can help with that and is also a good tool to just manage all your ebooks.
+1 for Calibre - I've also set up an online library for it using github.com/janeczku/calibre-w…
My collections are primarily books for research/teaching at uni - with the online portal I can read them on the go.
This sounds interesting. So you just consume a lot of Thai spoken content?
Yes, priority is input as much before output. But the input has to be ideally comprehensible. Here's the ALG method explained
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vg2E…
Take this video for example youtu.be/aNdYdSpL6zE you will quickly understand the meaning of "What is?" "This is" and T-Shirt and Shoes in Thai.
Here's another guy who learned Japanese with a variation of the method explaining how he did it www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG9k…
It makes language learning actually fun
How do you guys prioritize your to-do lists?
"Focus on the one thing that makes everything else easier or unnecessary."
Paraphrasing from this podcast which is worth a listen: tim.blog/2019/12/12/gary-kell…
I started waking up earlier and going to the gym in the morning.
Historically I've been very much a nightowl. I've never had a real job so my only fixed schedule was during my student years. Even then I had a hard time waking up on time each day and ever since graduating I've had a shifted wake/sleep routine waking up late in the morning or early/mid afternon. And going to bed past midnight, often around 3am and some periods even later.
I think people should follow a routine whatever works for them and I really dislike society's regard of nightowls. Wake up later than average is often seen as lazy, but then working until late is considered unhealthy too. Make up your mind! 😂
That said, the vast majority of high performers seem to wake up early. And the times I do wake up early (and have had enough sleep), my days felt longer and more productive.
So that's why I'm trying to wake up early. For me anything before 10am would be considered early, but the aim right now is to wake up around 8am everyday.
In addition to that I try to go to the gym first thing in the morning. I typically work out in the evening, but I always dread going because I'm usually still working and don't want to stop. If I wait too long I don't have the energy to give it my all and it somewhat feels like waste.
Exercising in the morning definitely requires some discipline, but in some sense it's proving to be easier. Because I tell myself "I can start work (which I really enjoy) after gym" so then I'm incentivized to head to the gym earlier rather than later.
Having read James Clear's Atomic Habits I also realize it's easier to build a habit on top of another habit (also known as "habit stacking") as one thing naturally leads to the next. That's how it works now: I wake up. Shower. Exercise.
It's all part of one morning routine. One thing leads to the next.
Once I finish at the gym the rest becomes easy. I naturually get hungry so I want to eat and I eat. I naturally feel like working so I go work. Eventually I get hungry again and kind of tired so I eat and stop working.
Having that morning routine sets me up for the rest of the day 👌
Today I woke up at 1pm and didn't go to the gym haha. So I'm definitely not there yet. But before 1pm was normal. Now it's an anomaly.
Most days the last week or two I've pretty good at waking up early. And I went to the gym in the morning about half of the time, but I also got a bunch of early appointments that made it difficult to stick to my schedule.
So all in all there's definitely some ways to go, but already a big change over all the years before.
The benefits are pretty obvious. I do find myself more productive in a day. Starting with exercise definitely is part of that. But also waking up early just feels more productive than waking up at 2pm in the afternoon.
The drawback is that there might be reasons to stay up a little later (e.g. many of friends become active online when it's late in my day), so that's a little tougher. And the main drawback is I don't get to sleep in which I really liked 😂
But overall the benefits outweight the drawbacks. Let's see how long I can keep this going 😄
Same here, just trying to wake up earlier! Got it down from 11am to 9:30am..but then it's because I don't sleep at 4am, so I'm not sure if it makes a difference.
I listened to a podcast with Charlie Sloth saying he used to get up at 5am so he was already ahead of everyone else by the time they wake up..I'll try it anyway, then I can do more pointless walking around with people during the daytime
Adding a default
#life project is a good idea. I'll add it as part of a new onboarding flow I want to do anyway 👍
Yes "streak credits", "streak freezes", or "cheat days" come up quite a lot. But like you point out it's tricky to determine the specific implementation. How many you can use them, etc.
Love the idea of having multiple leaderboards and highlight different types of community activity. Will make this! ❤️
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.