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From idea to launch in 1 day.

👉 https://www.papapal.me

We had the idea 2 days ago.
We built the MVP yesterday.
We launched on Product Hunt today.

What do you think about the product ? Would you subscribe ? If no, why?
Do you think about monetization before or after launching an idea ? Why ?

on April 30, 2021
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    Interesting but the fact that you don't charge for it doesn't sit well with me. Why did you come to that conclusion?

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      1. It was faster to ship. No monetization plans to setup. No crazy hypothesis about how to price.

      2. We would like to build something that people want and talk to users. I thought it was easier to attract users to talk to with a free service.

      3. For now, we mainly build it to use it ourself and grow a community of learners. We don't really mind if it brings money or not immediately.

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        I agree with this approach. Payment causes high barrier to sign up.

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      Thank you 🙌

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    I found it very interesting that, how you have a simple landing page and a google form and that's about it. What did you use to make the landing page?

    I am not your target audience. Why? I am the kind guy who installed Duolingo about 5 years ago and keep procrastinating to learn anything beyond, "Una Mujer, un hombre".

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      Hey! Yep, that's it. I used Umso for the landing page. It's practical. You can ship really fast.
      Ahahaha! Yeah, I enjoyed Duolingo during a year... It was funny. You have the feeling to learn. But in fact, you don't really learn much from this app... It's more like a game 🙂Thank you for your feedback 🙏

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    It looks great!

    I'm not your target audience so I won't be subscribing but you should definitely find some communities of language learners and show them.

    I think you should think about monetization after you onboard 5 - 10 users and iron out any potential UX issues.

    This is really cool, best of luck!

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      Thank you very much for your feedback ❤️

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    This comment was deleted 2 years ago.

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      That's a good point. I totally agree with you. It's the number one advice we give to people once they subscribe: "Learn sounds before words: Always learn the sounds of the alphabet properly before you start trying to memorize vocabulary, that way you can practice reading words you haven’t heard out loud yet."

      My co-maker explained the way we learn in the first PH comment. To summary, it's based on :

      • listening interesting podcasts in a foreign language -where you will learn how to pronounce
      • writing and producing content in this language -where you will learn how to communicate.

      In the end, we want to learn a language to communicate verbally and orally. We thought starting with verbal communication is more convenient.

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