[Ask IH] Feedback for bookmarking for teams?
Hello!
Last year, I created a better "new tab" page and asked for feedback from the community: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/feedback-on-a-better-new-tab-page-i-created-c118715499
One year later, the website has gotten basically no traction! I have exactly 3 users: myself, my wife, and a single paid user (which is fantastic!) I'm considering revamping this with a better UX and with features that would be useful to teams!
For example, if you are a small team and want everyone to be able to have useful links at their fingertips, then this is the tool for everyone to be able to subscribe! Or if you join, say, the engineering team, and want an easy reference to the sundry github repos, dashboards, internal URLs, etc, then this is a way to make it so.
I'm thinking about a $2/user/year price point, roughly.
I created a little prototype: https://invis.io/SRS9Y64FHED
Would you find this useful?
Some Qs:
Why would I use this instead of the already built-in Bookmark tool in my browser?
I do like the UI of your site vs. the built-in one in the browser. Can you make this instead a browser extension, that organizes the user's already existing bookmarks ? And then maybe mirror/sync the user's local bookmarks to a website where it can be shared with others.
I just checked Chrome store if there's something similar like #2 above and found this
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/teamsync-bookmarks/bcopfejjlalhckdkmofjciemgnjkffhj?hl=en-US
9,000+ users.
Hello! I've created a landing page which better articulates the value - what do you think? https://www.homepagr.com/
I've implemented a chrome extension to add a toolbar button to allow you to add a bookmark and organize it, but hadn't thought about syncing with a browser's bookmarks. Thank you for the feedback!
For me personally, the value-add is that accessing these links is "0-click", since it replaces the "new tab" page. I personally find the standard bookmarks menu incredibly cumbersome to use - the menus are just way too long to keep organized - and thus my motivation to create this tool.
Not going to commit to saying I'd use this, but I do think the idea is pretty cool. I feel like this has usually been accomplished for the most part by using a password manager, at least in regard to having quick links to external service-related resources and such.
Can definitely see the value here for a team to be able to share links and such, but I think the big hindrance is that teams tend to communicate links via Slack (or some other chat service), most of which allow pinning of information, giving the sense of a persistent resource.
I'd ask your paid user why they are paying for your service. See if their answer reveals some missing piece to your marketing. I'd also offer them a year for free or something if they can bring you more users (affiliate / referral play)
Also... is your paid user active? Would have to the be the one that led you to finding out they aren't using the service and are ready to cancel :P
Regarding your price point, just from my experience single dollar transactions can lead to high levels of fraud from credit card scammers using your service to validate their stolen assets. $5+ seems to be a good threshold, but $9+ is more ideal.
And perhaps one feature could be a slack integration, to try and organize and capture these links of links. One pain point is if someone in slack asks for a link (what's the link to the staging dashboard again?), I need to dig in my email/browser history to try and find it to share.
My user is active! In fact, with the current iteration, I have a 3-day free trial, and they emailed me and said "how can I pay you for this?" That was a good day! Maybe "free for teams of up to 5 people" and then paid is the right way to go here.
Great feedback on using referrals to incentivize adoption, and also great feedback on avoiding fraud with low-volume transactions.