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I think it's best to use something local, at least local to where you're paying taxes. The reason is that they'll know your tax code best, and have likely direct integrations to submit your tax reports. Unless you want to get a CPA to do all that for you as well. 😉
I don't know, because I've never had to use them. 😅 There's a Discord with the dev team that's pretty active
That's handy. I've had experience with Zuplo who use Discord as a support channel. Felt very comfortable with it, so I'd expect a cheerful similar experience
I've been using Chatwoot for years and it's going to stay that way. 😊 Multiple channels; email, chat widget, twitter, etc. Auto responders, canned responses, chatbot integrations, and it's open-source.
This looks good and I see it has live chat too. I like that it's open-source.
How is the support team, are they quick to answer and jump in to assist you with any integration questions you might have?
I don't know, because I've never had to use them. 😅 There's a Discord with the dev team that's pretty active
That's handy. I've had experience with Zuplo who use Discord as a support channel. Felt very comfortable with it, so I'd expect a cheerful similar experience
If you're one for self-hosting it; Sendy ( sendy.co/ ) is pretty awesome. Once-time fee for the app, just need to add a SMTP service (where you pay per email).
I've switched to it after my bills got out of hand for what I send (a few huge lists, but 1x month email), and not looking back. 😊
First time I heard of it. Look pretty awesome, will try test it out. Thanks a lot.
Unless you're using something like the trialing feature of your MoR, there's no reason to share your customer data with them before they actually subscribe.
For #whatpulse (freemium), the customer object is only created when they subscribe.
👆 It's indeed unlikely anyone here would use starter kits, I think. But the starterkit market is pretty much booming right now - so people are out there. Just make sure yours stands out from the crowd, as there are a lot by now.
I can well imagine that the wip community isn't really my target. My starter kit won't be unique. It's not you buy it and it's gone. In fact, you can prepare your kit according to your needs. You'll be able to choose a theme, select a project type (portfolio, saas, ecommerce, game, etc.), page packages and the related query to configure the database. The idea is to offer mainly a Nuxt + Tailwind + Supabase kit. The themes are designed and integrated by me. I hope this will make it stand out from the crowd.
Seconded "ignore and move on".. 😉
You'll need to develop (or apply) thick skin. There's always going to be something wrong with your product or docs around it according to some people. Not to say some might have good opinions which you can add to the to do list.
Marketing can be very broad. Your initial list is good, but I think you're focused mostly on known/regurgitated marketing approaches. Think of marketing this way: anything that would raise awareness of your product.
Depending on your product, you can:
- Do what @junogueira suggested
- Go into communities like reddit, linkedin, or others, answer questions, build a rapport with the community and get referrals.
- Built micro-tools that solve a specific problem, slightly related to your product and link it
- Seek partnerships with other products for an integration, a bundling, or just a guest blogs
- Cold outreach to prospective audiences (email, twitter, etc.)
- Platform-marketing; does your product belong on a platform/marketplace? List it and the platform will do the marketing for you
Notice that most of these don't cost anything but time. One thing I've learned is that paid marketing (ads, influencers) rarely provide better results than grinding it yourself.
Hey David,
Sounds like a good idea to help fight spam/scams. What do you want feedback on specifically?