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Finishing up a new product and I would love to get some early feedback.

Hi Indiehackers,

I'm finishing up a new project and I think I'm pretty close to an MVP version. Nobody has seen it yet, so I could really use some early feedback before I'm "officially" going to launch it. If you have some time to check it out then please let me know what you think!🙏

MakerMove - Every resource a startup founder needs. All in one place.

https://www.makermove.com/

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    Pretty cool, very convenient to find it all one place. It's kind of hard to see the value in a professional subscription though.

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      Thanks! I understand why you think that, I’m experimenting a bit with how to monetize the project. I might add features like saving custom lists of journalists or investors and keep track of who you have contacted etc. This might be valuable enough to have a pro subscription, but I have to try things out to see what works.

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        Not sure if you have thought of this already but I would subscribe to a newsletter that lets me know of new resources etc that have been added to the directory.

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          Thanks for letting me know. I probably add a sign up form for an email list before launching.

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    Hey,
    I'd go for the year subscription rather than $15 monthly fee, it seems a lot for a list of resources.
    Maybe try to get special deals like PH ship has https://www.producthunt.com/ship

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      Thank you for feedback! Really appreciate it.

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    Great work! Really useful for people like me who are new on the block. One piece of advice i'd have is to give more control over how the user can filter/sort, especially in the tools section. Having the ability to quickly sort or filter by something like price would be really handy.

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      Thanks! I will look into the filtering features and improve it some more

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        It could even work as a paid feature, definitely something that would incentivize me to sign up.

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    Love the UX on the product. Love the animations and pretty good deal of resources. I would look into lowering the yearly plans and I also like the idea in the comments about trying to get discounts from ph ship or any of the tools there tbh.

    Good job

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    Haven't read anyone else's feedback. But mine is:

    • It seems like there's duplicates in the podcast listing. Not sure if that's a bug or there's some difference (e.g. Seth Godin's Startup School I see twice)
    • It seems like tiles scale when there's only a few (like for Identity Verification), this is a little odd, but also makes the thumbnails blurry.
    • When the list of options for tools (and maybe others) is really long, for a future iteration it might make sense to have it become a more rich selector that shows all (or at least more) at once.
    • Another nice feature might be the ability to search all tools, and then find others in the category. That could require a decent shift in the setup and not be worth it. But I'm just thinking of having the ability to say "I know this tool, I don't know how it is classified but I want other options"
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      Thank you for your feedback! It's really helpful and I appreciate that you are taking the time to comment 🙂

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    As someone just getting into the startup space I find this useful - maybe targeting people like myself with tutorials and more information on what to use and when could be value add. Just one thought.

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    Looks nice, congratulations! Personally I wouldn't pay for this information, as it doesn't seem to be any information that is hard to find (further away than 1 Google search).

    What would be really useful is to have some information/description of each card, now it just shows the name, logo and category, not very useful. How can I choose between 20 email marketing tools if all I see is their logo and name? Am I supposed to click all the resources in the list and do my own investigation?

    While I like the clean design I found the layout to be a bit hard to navigate (on a 27" it's pretty hard to read left-to-right 7 columns of cards).
    I also think features such as a a global "Search" function or count indicator for resources in each category would be useful.

    I think this sort of directory might be useful and the idea has potential, only that in the current state I feel that I could get more value if I just google for "start-up news sites" instead of going through your list.

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      Thank you for your feedback, really appreciate it!🙌

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    Well:

    .. Looks nice, works well.

    .. Contains only couple of categories, nowhere near "everything", so you start by massively over-promising.

    .. The categories contain only few dozen entries, which are well chosen, but again nowhere near comprehensive.

    .. There are no reviews so it's just couple of plain lists with generic scraped detail view, not much value.

    .. [Edit: seeing that nobody else is complaining about this, it is possible that your paywall was malfunctioning for me, and this point was caused just by technical issue} Then you do absolutely fuck-off aggressive popups; after first ~45 second just scrolling a bit pops up payment prompt, every page, every time, so the site cannot be used at all without payment.

    .. And your prices are seriously high. Your service provides no unique value.. the web is chock full of these lists. Asking $15 per month is close to insulting :(

    So... In it's current form it is very unlikely that your monetization strategy is going to work.

    Have you considered just monetizing through affiliate revenue, like your competitors do?

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      Thank you so much for your honest feedback!

      I've made lots of free to use websites and this is the first project I'm trying to monetize in this way, but at the same time also trying to launch an MVP without spending a whole year of development. That's why lots of features are still "missing". The pricing model is clearly off right now, so I'm going to change that. Would you think 29 dollars for a year of full access would be more reasonable?

      I will take a look at affiliate revenue. I tried this with www.flowreads.com and was a bit disappointed that although it became Product of the Day on PH it only earned me like 21 dollars in like half a year.

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        I think you picked really hard niche to try monetizing.

        The entire startup culture is so much about helping and free sharing of information, that when you have paywall for information t's going to raise epic bad blood in any case.

        And then in your case the information you provide is available elsewhere for free, so your situation is exponentially worse than epic..

        So no, I don't think $29 per year makes any difference.

        Why don't you build something easier to monetize? There is no glory in unnecessary pain.

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      I will take another look at the mobile version as well as the pricing model. Thank you for giving me feedback, I really appreciate it!

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