Zaheer Baloch
@zaheerbaloch
Producr Hunt is a good place to show/promote book related websites! I had mediocre succes with wits.io where i got almost 100 paid signups via product hunt. I am also working on a telegram community but havent posted it on ProductHunt yet, wits.chat
Makes sense! Currently i have only one flow pass or dont pass email... i will add options for user to change email for payment if they want to else simply continue...
True! But I saw couple of users who signed with different email for my service but were trying with their own email address fot stripe... so i removed it... if they want they can still enter the same email again in stripe box!
But the majority of your users now have to type their email in again to pay you. Optimize for lazy and let the unique request different when they need it.
Makes sense! Currently i have only one flow pass or dont pass email... i will add options for user to change email for payment if they want to else simply continue...
Hi Nikhil,
Thanks for helping me out here. I started as a very niche of Blinkist with only books that are recommended by founders/makers... It went fine and got around 110 paid signups.... Then got tired of writing the summaries, if hobby becomes a job then one loses interest, then I started thinking of crowdsourced medium style book summaries, where people who write summaries will be paid by the platform based on total subscriptions on the platform etc. The end goal is that, and in the meantime using wits.chat as a free platform for people to connect and share.
I tried to talk to people who are avid readers but they surely don't want write summaries, but they did like the idea of twitter/wip style of updates and getting streaks etc.
The end goal really is to turn away from book summaries in current style and to wits.io/chat and then have only chat/community and some sort of paid patreon or paid content around it.
I have follow up question, should I bring the streaks back as I removed them as some feedback I got from people that associating streaks with content platform is not a good idea. What are your thoughts on this?
So, if I get it right, you want to move away from this model? Can you elaborate on why you want to have a chat? How do you think a chat will add value to your userbase? What purpose will it serve?
See, streaks are a retention mechanism. It's like a notification added with the fact that you paid $20 and want to keep the streak going. Well it depends on the type of content (length) that is being created, the incentive and the ease of content creation and the way you're remunerating the creators (see image). In your specific case, based on the information I have, I don't see streaks making sense.
I have made wits.io/chat which I hope to be a crowdsourced platform as competitor for GoodReads (book reviews) and Blinkist (book summaries). The idea is to gamify reading and sharing what you learned everyday with the community. It had a feature similar to WIP where One earns a streak by sharing everyday and if one doesn't then you loose your streak. But removed it after some feedback from users that for sharing content there shouldnt be streaks or gamification. What do you think? And need brutal and honest feedback on the ui/ux, idea in general and the copy on the site and how to improve on
I want to be able to show the menu to user, let him select item+quantity, address, phone no, and any instructions for the order...
Would love to :) but consider just testing... i may not be the target audience....
Thanks! I found out that Bitnami has a VM for both Mattermost and LetsChat.. so will try them out.
A little context! I always have called friends and family to wish them on a birthday or Eid (Muslim Christmas) and never really used text or whatsapp/telgram for that. I need it and just checking if its something people will pay for?