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No problem Ryzal! What tech stack are you using for Reader Mode?
If a product can be used for work, it makes a lot of sense to do discounted pricing. This gives a company an incentive to buy it for their whole team, which is great – you earn more without doing more work.
I think it also helps with anchoring. If they only had one pricing plan for $25, you'd be like "Wow this is really expensive!" But when you put $25 next to $199, it suddenly looks like a steal!
I don't think it's absolutely necessary though. I've seen a lot of companies do fine without it. You might want to launch with a single plan and then introduce this pricing if people start asking you for it.
Hey Ryzal, this looks great! I'm OCD when it comes to my reading tools (sometimes I'll even copy-and-paste an ugly article into a text editor and then save it as a PDF just so it's more readable 😂) and this looks like a great solution to that. Here's my feedback:
The main thing is that I'd love to have access to a live demo. For instance, you could create a standalone blog post and let people test it out for themselves. I just got this set up for my own Chrome extension and would be happy to share how – let me know if you want help! It's a lot easier than I assumed.
There are a few typos:
- "Choose what you want to display on the reader by simple {simply} toggling them on or off"
- "Remove any unwwanted {unwanted} texts, images and others by just clicking on them while you are in the deletion mode"
- "Translate any text to any language with the Google Translate tool. Just select any texts {then} click translate, it's that easy!"
- "Comes with word by word underlining so you can follow along of what's currently being spoken. Choose your favourite voice and configure the rate, picth {pitch} and volume"
This isn't part of the roast, but reddit.com/r/Dyslexia might be a good place to market this. One of their rules is "No unapproved commercial or self promoting adverts", but I feel like you could probably run this past the mods beforehand and get approved since you're (1) an indie dev, and (2) dyslexic support is literally in your tagline. They have about 7,000 members.
Other than that, I just want to compliment the design of the actual product. It's really pretty, and I love that you kept it simple! Good luck!
Hey Mark, thanks for checking it out and for your detailed feedback! Appreciate it a lot 🙌🤗 And oh that’s very uderstandable! Reader Mode can definitely help you with this man, no need to copy-and-paste into editor anymore! Hehe
And yeah sure thing! I did think about that and have actually tried to put the demo, but somehow something is not working and I just gave up hahahah. So it’ll be really helpful if you could show me how did you do that :D
Also I appreciate it very much that you pointing out all those typos! Because those are what I worry the most and thanks for letting me know this. I will fix them ASAP! Hee :))
About the “reddit.com/r/Dyslexia”, I have checked it out and yes it seems I perhaps need to run this past the mods first. Will look into this further.
And yeah, thank you very much for taking your time on checking out my product and give a very good constructive feedback! I just checked out your product as well and it seems so cool!! Thanks a lot man and good luck to you too! 🤗
No problem Ryzal! What tech stack are you using for Reader Mode?
You can become pretty successful doing just one of them right.
If you're going to charge $XX,XXX for a product (like for enterprise products or freelancing), you'll want to set up in-person meetings. ...at least that's what I've done as a freelancer, and it has worked well. Basically go in, ask them about their problems, find which ones you can solve, and pitch them a solution (the actual estimate can be via email after the meeting).
If you're going to charge less than that (like an $XX/month SaaS offering), you can practice doing cold email outreach. If you don't have any side projects right now, you could offer freelance services. Every day, find 5 people who can use what you're offering, and email them. This is also a good chance to test out your copywriting skills – practice writing short emails (just a few sentences) and long ones (with pictures and stuff) to see how each converts.
Marketing is a bit higher cost. While there are ways to make it cheaper (search "guerrilla marketing examples"), you'll still need to invest some time and money to do it right. You could practice running ads, read over what other people are doing at sites like @harrydry's marketingexamples.com, and build up a following on social media platforms.
Or sell companies on social media advertising services, that'll teach you both at the same time. :)
I know I'm a little late to the party, but I found a decent post on this a while back (josephliu.co/twitter-username-taken). It goes along with what Marc was saying about reporting the account:
- Make sure you own the domain name for the username you want (i.e. torus.com if you want @torus)
- List that domain as the primary site in your account
- File an impersonation form at help.twitter.com/forms/impersonation and include any relevant information; for instance, your website, handles on other social media, etc. The original author even included his driver's license and passport (if you want it that badly)
- Twitter will email you with their decision and give you further instructions
I've never tried it myself, but some people in the comments are saying it worked for them. I'd love if they would purge inactive accounts every few years and release the usernames!
Hey Ryzal, I like your ideas a lot. It's like taking the best of both of options. Thanks! :)
Yess! No worries Mark and all the best! :)