[MVP Feedback]: Share your entire online presence with just one link.
Hi everyone 👋.
I'm Mads from Denmark 🇩🇰. I've been posting a bit here for a while, and love the community.
Today I want to share my latest project with you. One that I've been working on the past few weeks, and hope to get some feedback on it from you 🙏.
The Project: vBio (https://vbio.io), is a addition to your online/social media toolbox and allows you to share your entire online presence with just one link.
It comes with analytics features that allows you to track the traffic coming to and from your profile, along with the possibility of using with a custom domain for your profile.
The Motivation: I've for a long time wanted to do some kind of "collection" app, and have been around multiple ideas within this area. And at the same time I wanted to try and code some analytical tools, but never really found a good project for it.
Then a few weeks ago I wanted to add a link to my LinkedIn profile from my Twitter profile. But I already had a link to my personal website there and had to add it to the description instead, which weren't really ideal.
That's where the idea initially struck me and I thought there could be something there.
Since then I've done some planning, investigation and coding and I think I'll try and roll with this idea.
The Request: I hope you'll use 5 minutes to visit the site, and empty for head for feedback, it's more than welcome, along with feature requests.
I'm really up for whatever 😅
To me $10 feels pretty expensive for the pro version.
Hi @petr17102018 - Thanks for the feedback! You might be right. I am still considering the price for the pro version.
Would $5 a month sound more appealing to you?
I am not the target audience, but for $5 dollars you can get a VPS, multihosting for static sites costs like $1 or $2 and also your competition have lower prices, but more features.
I feel like you need to add more customization and features, but again the space is competitive. Maybe you should also go with a niche market like some people do and focus on that? Being a profile page for literally anyone is really hard.
I get your point. But comparing this to servers and hosting providers is like comparing apples to pears in my opinion.
I do get that I don't have a fully fledged feature set at the moment, and for that it could seem a bit expensive. I am thinking og a price point between $5-$10 a month. Anything below that would not make this viable. If this gets users I'll be able to invest more time into it and hence more features and value for money.
Imagine I am not a technical person. Then for $5-$10 I can hire someone to make me a simple page with my social media buttons as a one time fee (1h of work) and then pay $1 or nothing for webhosting and I am done. It is up to you whether you count this as a competition or not (I would).
I agree though that if the price is too low, you will not be able to live off the income in Denmark :)
Anyway, good luck!
Haha. Touché. I need quite a few $10 subscribers to cover living costs here in Denmark.
Again, I see your point. And have to say that if you look at it from that perspective, you could have a lot of these smaller services done for you through a cheap freelancer. Yet, many pay for the convenience of not having to deal with that stuff yourself.
Indeed :)
it's not necessarily something that i would use, but then again i'm not big into social media. with that said, is it really that big of an issue to share links separately? also, each website (e.g. instagram, linkedin, etc) has such a unique "purpose," thus i can't really think of a reason you would want to share your instagram page with the same person you share your linkedin page with.
Hi @gk01 - I find it to be an issue. And some others seems to think that as well. The idea is to easy be able to inter-link everything, not only your LinkedIn profile with your Twitter profile, but everything.
Hey Mads, how was your project going? I have similar idea to this, but with differentiation. Would love to discuss about it more with you. I would love to have a partner. BTW if you are from Denmark, I am 1-2 hours flight away from you. If you are interested to discuss, write me at tomasmaks@gmail.com
I've just created an account to try it out: https://vbio.io/castroalves
It's very simple and easy to use. The UI is very cool!
Feedbacks
Ideas
Finally, if don't know how to monetize it yet, check this website: https://linkfire.com. Link Tree is also a good benchmark for you.
I wish you all the best with this product!
Hi @castroalves - Thank you very much for your feedback, and for signing up! 🎉
I've noted down your ideas. I especially like being able to upload custom icons/ images for links.
I already know of Linkfire (I actually know their CEO and one of the guys working there). Linkfire though focuses mostly on recording artists being able to route their traffic to music stores and streaming services.
EDIT: Forgot to add that the analytics feature is not yet developed. Wanted to verify the product a bit more before adding that, since it will be a big and time-costly feature to build.
I had to laugh so hard at this:
"Dad and wine lover" 😅
Interesting concept, not sure I'd use it for the following reasons:
Hi @luceos - Glad you had a laugh about it 😅, and thanks for your thoughts.
I think that if you look at it from that perspective, almost everything else could be solved "manually" like that ;)
Your product reminds me of https://linktr.ee/.
Hi @dhruvg - Actually haven't seen that one. But, yes. There are some other services out there doing similar things. That doesn't necessarily scare me away :)
Good!