Honest feedback please! 🙏

Thanks Erich! I can't tell you enough how incredibly useful this was to watch. I've just signed up to UX swaps as I'd love more feedback in this medium :)

I will say that I found it incredibly frustrating to see the issues you were having with certain things not loading. I think if they had, you would have seen what you were expecting. The offers page that didn't load contained that long list of stores that you said you wanted to see. Also when you went to adidas, there should be a little popup that appears to say you can earn on that site. I expect the reason it didn't is related to the offers not loading. As always, more server power will probably be the answer! I'll make sure this is fixed over the next day or so. Watching you have those issues were exactly what I needed to see so even though I found it frustrating, it was extremely valuable.

I'll be sure to set up a test on UX swaps. May I also contact you using the email you used to sign up? I'd love to keep in touch and ensure the issues you had have been fixed.

Thanks for reporting that. I'll certainly look into improving it. I know there are some low hanging fruit tasks I can do to improve the speed.

To answer your question regarding honey. Honey is first and foremost a discount codes extension. I'm a big fan of it in fact. It's great at giving you discount codes when you checkout. I've used it's UX as inspiration for some screens on Affordab.ly.

They've implemented cashback more recently. They do this by giving you "honey gold" when you shop that can be converted to vouchers only (for spotify, amazon etc). In my experience it's pretty poor at this. I've had this functionality for years and I've only earned $20 worth in vouchers (I just checked). In fact apparently I can only convert $10 because I'm just shy of the $20 voucher. There are users on Affordab.ly who have been using it for a matter of weeks and are already into the hundreds of dollars. If you use it for big ticket items like flights or hotels then you can quite easily earn over $100 in one transaction.

As I said honey also only lets you convert this to vouchers, not even cash and certainly not crypto. It's a different tool. Their discount codes functionality is pretty good, the cashback side is very lacking.

Thanks!

Thanks Dustin! I'll be sure to do that 🙂

Yes another commenter mentioned this. Feedback here has certainly made me consider the need to add support for self-custody wallets and you've added support to that. Seems I may need to reorder my todo list a little. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks! I'm certainly hoping thats the case!

Great! I'm glad people like the video. It was a late addition. Thanks!

Seems a few people agree with you 😄 I'll be sure to update, thanks for your input!

Thanks! You're right I've only got at the top and bottom so I'll be sure to add more :)

Thanks Boris! An easy and no-brainer addition to make. I'll be sure to add.

Thanks for the feedback! I have actually added testimonials further down the page but people have already pointed out the lack of user images is an issue. I'd love to have some "As seen on Forbes" sort of things but all in good time! I suppose I can have "As seen on Indie Hackers" now but unfamiliar people might wtf at the sight of "hackers" 😆

Glad to hear I'm not the only one experiencing consumer concern around that. It does feel particularly bad at the moment (thanks FTX!). Please feel free to sign up and give it a try, I'd love to hear your feedback. I'm happy to take advice from you on UX by the way as I think your site looks great! 😄

Thanks! I've certainly picked up that visuals beats text every time 😄

I see what you mean. I simply used the official assets from the various app stores and missed that small touch. Thanks for pointing it out 🙂

Google auth is now implemented! 🎉

You're not the first person to mention this, I'll bump it up the todo list!

Thanks! It's been on my list to go through the pagespeed recommendations. I am aware that improvements can be made. It's not that uncommon even on established sites to get a score like that on mobile but I agree there are some quick wins I can make. All in good time!

Thanks for your positive feedback on the design and product in general. I'm generally not a huge fan of things like parallax and over-animation in general so I think I'll steer clear of adding any though.

Thanks for the feedback! It seems that I simply need to bump up the heroku dynos to avoid that application error. I see Eric had a similar issue above.

I think whatever your opinion of crypto is, it's certainly proven at least that it's here to stay. We are in a lull right now though which does happen every couple of years. I'm not sure it's as a result of the AI boom but I do see your point that AI's got the spotlight right now and is no doubt the future. I just don't think it's one or the other. It does certainly have a trust problem as a result of things like the FTX scandal which it will need to get over. This is what I need to wrestle with, hence my question about seeming genuine and not scammy.

There are indeed purchases that will give you 40% back. This isn't typical though and tends to be for things like signing up to some subscription software, a casino, trading platform, new bank account etc. For typical ecom purchases like buying a product at an online store you'll usually get around 5% which is the norm. I can put something that makes that clearer so thanks for pointing that out.

You're right that its a crypto twist on a tried and tested cashback model. I'm hoping it will separate us from the crowd. I also think that our method of focussing on extensions gives us a better user experience than most. Other cashback solutions usually require you to shop via the app/website itself which will then take you off to the store. This is always a terrible shopping experience. Affordab.ly lets you install and forget. It'll just pop up and give you a nice surprise when you're shopping to let you know you can earn. Similar to how the honey extension operates. I think we're amongst the first to do this on iOS where apple only allowed this quite recently.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes the testimonials are real. We have some engaged early users so requested some quotes and asked to use snippets from various conversations we've had.

Ideally I'd like to supplement/replace them with "As seen on Forbes/BBC/TechCrunch etc" but we aren't there yet 😄

Really good advice about the more personal video. The video has been the latest addition and I wasn't even sure it was the right thing to do. I'm a software engineer so have very little experience in making them. I agree something more personal would help.

Yes I agree I could flesh the countries info out a bit. I hadn't considered that people might be confused that purchases have to be in crypto. I wouldn't want that. Will keep an eye to see if others think the same and act if they do. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for your feedback! This is really useful to hear from a web3 enthusiast which is the community I'd like to present this to next. This has been on my list of things to do. At the moment we store your crypto on the platform for you to export to your own wallet whenever you like. When this is presented more to a web3 specific audience (beyond just a general one like here) I'm interested to see if this request comes up more. If it does I'll have to prioritise it!

Hey!

You're not wrong to wonder this. We could indeed have offered different earning options. Vouchers, cash etc. But the truth is that tools like this already exist and are much more established. Tools like Rakuten (ebates), topcashback, dosh have all been around for years (decades even) and have millions of members. While I stand by our technology, user experience and sheer amount/quality of offers, which I think is better than what many of them offer. I think we'd really struggle to stand out from the crowd.

If the product went down that road then I think there'd be more people commenting to say this is nothing new, how are you any better? Whatever your opinion of crypto may be, I think it adds an exciting differentiator and access to a new and motivated audience. I'm aware it won't be for everyone but I think there's a sizeable market there.

I say this of course at the very start of validating the product with little more than intuition to base this off. We may very well have to pivot later down the line. We could for example offer a mix of payment options with crypto being just one. I think we'd benefit from the product being single focussed for now though :)

Thanks Zakaria, it's just about not crossing that red line into being untrustworthy which you have to consider with crypto projects. The feedback here has been generally positive though :)

You're absolutely right regarding affiliate commissions. In fact currently we give the user 100% while the product is validated. I'd like to maximise the returns for them now and in future and may explore other revenue areas as the platform grows. Taking a slice from there is not the only option. We could offer a premium subscription with better offers or have certain stores pay for promotion for example.

That's really good advice on having screenshots of the app on the homepage. As I mentioned in another comment, there were previously screenshots in the hero instead of the cartoon products carousel. Your comment has made me realise I've neglected to put them anywhere else and it's lacking them. I agree with you fully.

Thanks a bunch for your feedback it was very valuable :)

The solana website is directed at experienced/professional users. I was going for something more B2C. My inspiration was sites like joinpouch.com, klarna.com... joinhoney.com (and the honey app) helped with inspiration for sevaral other screens in the app but less so the homepage.