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How much and when would you charge for this?

Hey all. πŸ‘‹
Long story short - I SUCK at marketing and making money online 🎻

I have made a grand total of MINUS god-knows how many hundreds of πŸ’Έ through hosting fees etc and wasted an incredible amount of time building projects no-one has ever heard of and possibly not even wanted. But hopefully it has not been in vain.

I have now changed my strategy and have stitched together a number of old projects to make this new one. So perhaps it hasn't been a total waste of time?

This new project is completely MVP. So much so, that I have had to force myself to stop writing code and just launch it's core functionalities and nothing else.

  • "If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late"

I now want to focus my time and energy on something that people ACTUALLY find useful and use before wasting more time and money.

✨So what is it?✨
So my new project is a widget that you place on your blog or website to help support indie hackers share their SaaS projects. Like a Peer 2 Peer marketing strategy.
And it's called saascovery.com

I have no idea if it will be of any use, if people will even use it, let alone pay for it ... but I'm not worried because I didn't spend an inordinate amount of time building it like my other projects.
And that feels great! 😁

So, the question is, is this something you would use? And if so, how much and when would you pay for this?

Would love to hear your feedback and what you would do to make SaaScovery better and more useful.

Thanks

on March 20, 2022
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    Long story short turned out to be a complete essay. Apologies! πŸ˜…

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    Congrats on the launch and nice job stopping yourself from coding to go seek feedback! So much easier said than done.

    Here are my first impressions, for whatever they're worth:

    • The initial messaging "above the fold" was a little unclear. It took me reading the text near the bottom of your page to understand that I put the widget on my site in exchange for being displayed on other people's sites. Maybe a demo would help?
    • Minor, but I think the "get discovered now" button should go to the "sign up" rather than "sign in" page/view. Since you're new, most users will be signing up, not signing in - make that easy ;)
    • I'd be hesitant to put the widget on my site since I don't really want ads on it. But, I'd be more comfortable putting it on a blog or site that already had ads.
    • Since I'm giving away advertising space on my site in exchange for appearing on other sites, I wouldn't be inclined to pay for it. So, I'd want to know more about what else 'pro' offers before making a decision to pay.

    Hope this helps, best of luck

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      Ah that helps a lot, thanks for the feedback.
      In as far as pricing, I was thinking perhaps,
      'Stand out for longer'
      so instead of just a text base ad users would be able to upload an eye-catching image and it would stay on that advert for long. (I was thinking of having a rotating banner to give more users visibility)

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    Don't think about time spent on old projects as "wasted". It's all about learning and your education - this is priceless.

    Congrats on the launch. It looks like a cool project!