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Hey Yahia 👋

• Very clear value prop.
• Your site & apps look great. Lots of polish 💯
• "Wake up when it matters most." is an excellent tagline.
• Your social share metadata could use a lot of work. Twitter's preview needs polish (test it out here https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator)
• Blog content looks awesome
• Slack link is broken in footer
• Features page is pretty redundant right now but I'm guessing it's a WIP.
• It's really not clear to me after thoroughly checking out your landing page which forms of notifications you support? Just phone calls? That seems pretty annoying. I'd expect calls, texts, slack, etc, but for MVP at least make it clear that you support calls + texts.
• If you're using twilio for texts / calls, you can add their logo to your homepage for some social proof.
• Your "how it works" steps 1, 2, 3 are currently a lot of text. Spend a bit of time and make this visual. It'll do wonders.
• The biggest thing missing from your landing page is actual people. Landing pages convert more when target users see people that they identify with. In your case, well dressed, polished, business folks. The easiest place to add this right now is under your social proof section "what our users think". Maybe this isn't possible with your current app store reviews, but you have these people's accounts. Reach out to a small % of your top users and ask them for feedback. Incentivize them to give feedback and to allow them to use their quotes on your page. Only choose to use the people who "fit" your ideal target personas. E.g., if I send you a picture of my cat for my profile pic, that's probably not a great person to choose. You ideally want a range of seemingly successful people from all walks of life where someone reading your site will identify with one of them. Right now, it's all just anonymous and cold.

Why? Our platform provides reliable alerts that grow with you as you progress throughout the trading world. We provide news/technical-analysis/key-stats and much more.

This is the single most important question when it comes to selling & marketing your product, and your answer is answering what again instead of why. This may seem like a simple distinction, but trust me it's incredibly important. Read my more in-depth blog post if you're not sure on the difference.

In your case, I would say your why is: so you don't have to worry about financials. You're "selling" your product / solution on a literal level. But what people want to "buy" in a more psychological sense is the promise of being a better investor and ultimately getting rich. Luckily for you, this is a great selling point 💪and there are lots of examples you can pull from to give connotations of wealth / success / etc -- you just have to walk the line between evoking that premium image and having some successful people that your potential buyers will identify with -- and on the flip side you don't want to go too far and be cheasy / get rich quick / etc.

When talking about branding especially for cases like this, I always like to look at what other really well funded & successful companies in this space do in terms of color scheme, typography, copy text, and visuals. You want StockAlarm to "feel" like it belongs in the same world as these other products, and in this respect I think your branding & design could use a lot of improvement.

I'm not an expert in the stock / investing space, so I'd ask you: who are the 3-5 products that are absolutely rock solid here that you could use as inspiration to model your branding & design around? I'm not saying to copy anyone explicitly -- just create a collage for different elements (hero, CTAs, color schemes, etc etc) and pick & choose from diff existing solutions in places that where it won't take much work on your end. With the end goal being to evoke an identity that "fits" more in this refined world.

Like when I interact with your brand, I want to feel like I'm interacting with a high end hotel or investment firm because that's the lifestyle that your target demographic wants to live (rich, successful, business, elegance, etc). And I don't feel that way right now.

With all that being said about design, I realize everything's a process and this is a really, really solid MVP. I love the use of undraw haha 👀

Overall, I love what you're doing & congrats on having real users! 💯You're well ahead of the curve for indie hackers 😄

If you found this feedback helpful, please consider showing saasify some love on the socials.

Cheers 😄

Hey Herman 👋

My first thought is that this is so interesting & unique! I really love the core value prop and your basic but polished design so far.

I actually did an internship at Pixar back in the day and have a lot of experience with 3D graphics on the dev side of things (linkedin). One of the areas that was always a challenge for me with tools like Blender & Maya was that they're so powerful but I suck at the actual creative side of things 😂 and so having character models and assets to start with was super useful.

• The webapp looks solid. Are you using threejs or webgl directly?
• I really like the lil fluffy cloud design elements.
• Gumroad is a great choice to save you from having to deal with billing complexity and allow you to focus on your core value prop. Kudos
• Add more to your "what will you create" section or better yet make this into its own self-updating page. 💯
• Being able to export in multiple formats is great. I'd also explicitly mention specific programs like Houdini, Maya, etc because less experienced users probably want to know as quickly as possible that this solution will work with their normal tool(s) of choice. This is also great for SEO and you should try to mention each of these programs / tools / use cases on your home page. Possibly in a consistent nav with individual sub-pages for each of the popular 3D modeling tools. These pages will be extremely redundant but that's okay -- it's gold for SEO and it's important for users to funnel themselves naturally into the one or two tools they care about.
• Making pricing clear on your marketing site is important. You don't want to hide the fact that it's a freemium product and people take paid products more seriously.
• In the future, offering the ability to transfer movements & animations across different skeletons and quickly taking an existing animation from a library and transferring it onto a new model would be a killer feature that would take this from a static pose library to supporting more dynamic use cases. But one thing at a time and this type of transfer is pretty non-trivial to do well. I remember implementing a basic version of this in college but I'm sure there are some OSS libs that would be really useful for this these days.

Overall, I love what you're doing. The cloud design elements and how the models fade into them on the https://justsketch.me/features/ page was my favorite part 😄

Keep up the great work!

PS if you found this feedback useful, please consider checking out saasify's socials 😄

Hey Josiah 👋

• Overall, I like what you're doing - products focused on raising & investors often do very well.
• When i got to your initial video, i was like awesome i can quickly see what this is all about. then i saw it's 33 minutes and immediately got turned off. Show your visitors that you value their time. This is the single most important piece of your marketing -- keep it extremely concise & to the point. You don't have to throw away your current video -- put it somewhere else sure on a blog post or case study page or something, but your main intro video should be ~60 seconds max.
• I'm pretty confused at what type of investments and sponsors you're talking about. Are you focused on tech VC? Real estate? Everything? Would I use it for raising a seed round for Saasify? None of this is clear to me, and I would encourage you to focus all of your efforts on one very focused use case until you gain some traction.
• Your footer typography seems unprofessional and inconsistent with the rest of the site.

Great work so far & best of luck!

You don't need to answer these questions for me btw -- you need to make sure that your visitors can answer them for themselves.

Cheers 😄

I tried to use it for 30 seconds and gave up. I'm not a serious video/visual content creator. I may not be your target.

What about an in-app tutorial on first visit?

Hey dude, let's schedule a catch-up call on slack sometime -- will be easier to give feedback. Love all the progress!

Hey @jamalx31 👋

• I love OSS 💯
• Also love your lil skunk 😂
• Your core value prop is really solid.
• You may have to educate your target audience as to how important this is, because many devs & indie hackers unfortunately don't focus on user feedback as much as they should.
• Your screenshots in the readme are difficult to make out. I should be able to understand what the main widget looks like right away when I visit the repo instead of having to read through some stuff and then click on a small preview to finally get a glimpse of the only thing I care about which is what this widget actually looks like.
• While I love the skunk, put him / her down at the bottom and put a bigger version of your main widget example screenshot front & center on your readme. A picture is worth 1000 words and if I see that widget and some example feedback in the screenshot, that's way way way better than anything you could write about your product. Since 98% of people who land here won't actually read through your prose that you spent a lot of time putting together. Trim out all the fat in the text, move it into a blog post where it belongs, and focus on the hero screenshot.
• As an OSS tool and project I think this is awesome. As a product, I think you're going to have a tough time monetizing this. Mainly because your current target market is indie devs and we're a hard group to sell to. Build vs buy mentality is tough.
• Your "community edition" makes me think you'll be adding additional features on top of this for an "open core" business model. Awesome. My favorite resource for open core reading is https://coss.media/ and I'd start by reading these articles:
  • https://coss.media/open-core-definition-examples-tradeoffs/
  • https://coss.media/coss-business-model-progressions/
  • https://coss.media/creating-oss-value-capturing-oss-value/
• I gave a talk last year about open core and diff ways to monetize OSS that you may find interesting. https://slides.com/transitive-bullshit/the-wonderful-world-of-open-source#/
• I know there are a lot of other feedback tools, but I've never used any of them. You'll probably also run into comparisons with tools like drift & intercom & the 20+ other clones that exist these days.
• I'm not saying any of this to discourage you. Rather, if you want to be successful with this it's important to understand the competitive landscape and what the potential market opportunity looks like.
• The actual code looks solid btw 💯Apollo, TS, and React all the way

I hope you find this feedback helpful. I think you have a great core to build off of, so keep up the great work!

Hey Christian 👋

• Really solid and clear value prop.
• Your landing page is well designed and clean.
• Your main h1 "Analytics to increase conversion rates" doesn't pop for me. Maybe think about emphasizing the "increase conversion rates" part of things like Hotjar does for their h1 "The fast & visual way to understand your users" with "understand your users" being emphasized as the "why".
• Oooh bouncy buttons :)
• Your hero video is too small. Make is 2x. I have no idea what I'm looking at right now.
• Remove the "Quick video showcasing some analytics segmenting features." People understand what a demo video is.
• Add some audio to your main video. super easy and makes it more engaging. i'd highly recommend using Loom or a similar tool to actually add your face on there as you narrate what's going on. right now i'm just dropped into some dashboard that i don't care about. spice it up. it'll do wonders for your conversions.
• https://fleek.co/ has a pretty solid intro you can use for inspiration (and at a much more appropriate size).
• features section is solid, though I would increase the size of the images a bit. Assume people are looking at things quickly and that they're distracted while doing it.
• the self-hosting part needs to be emphasized a bit more. i know it's a bullet point at the top but i was confused once i got to the "Why would I use a self-hosted analytics script instead of a service?" question and I was like wait a minute, isn't this thing a SaaS?
• gumroad 💪
• "Ready to see the dashboard and your recording?" - I don't care about the dashboard. I only care about the recording. Cut the excess text.

Okay, here's my main question: why is this thing self-hosted and constrained to only work if I'm using / familiar with PHP and your very specific tech stack? I was going along and saying okay maybe I could find a use for this until I got to this one tiny FAQ question and I immediately said oh okay I'd never ever use this. I get that it costs $ to compete with someone like https://www.hotjar.com/ but your product will be significantly more appealing to a larger audience if it's not solely reliant on PHP.

If, however, your focus is Wordpress and other PHP hosting platforms, then this needs to be much more clear on your landing page and all over the place for SEO.

Overall, it looks like a solid product and it's clear you've put a lot of time & effort into it. Keep up the great work & take my advice to heart cause I really only mean well.

If you found this feedback useful, please consider giving saasify some love on socials.

Cheers 😄

Hey @manyTomas, happy to try & help 😄

Have you talked with this fellow IH? https://www.indiehackers.com/post/email-newsletter-aggregator-b0fc1b0457

• Overall core value prop sounds good.
• https://mailbrew.com/ is a really, really well designed product that seems related. Also if you haven't already be sure to check out https://feedly.com/ and https://leavemealone.app/ for inspiration.
• Overall, your marketing site is pretty solid 💯
• Your main header "Get email newsletters under your control" is excellent but it's smaller than "ManyLetter - newsletter manager". Remove this second part - it's worthless and distracts from the main marketing message which is your first one. Then keep the small follow-up description "ManyLetter makes it easy to find and join any newsletter, as well as to create one, and share it."
• I like the artificial scarcity but "Limited spots available!" with a "!" seems pretty bogus to me. Be honest and don't yell at the user.
• On your about page, the "A brief history of news telling" is wayyy unnecessary. Make this into a blog post. Keep your about page / mission simple & to the point. The more your iterate on this type of stuff the better it'll get over time.
• So you kind of have a few diff products if I'm understanding correctly? Do you already have traction with one of them? Split your focus across these diff sides of the equation may make sense eventually but if you don't have some significant traction with one of them, it just muddles the message of what you're offering for the time being. My advice would be to pick one and focus. Then branch out once you have an existing audience.
• I get that you're using green as your primary brand color, but in general UX terms, using a single color for elements that the user can interact with (CTAs, buttons, links) as well as background elements is a design no-no. I'd advise you to search for a complementary color to your main green and use that for one instead.
• Referral program is a great addition.
• Email page leads to 404

Love where you're at and I think you're def ahead of the curve in terms of indie hackers. Keep up the great work 💯

PS if you found this feedback helpful, please consider showing saasify some love our socials 😄

Hey Gijs 👋

Welcome to the community 😄

• Really clear value prop and product. It's great that you can bootstrap most of this manually by "doing things that don't scale" until you automate it down the road. You don't have to do this but it's the smart thing to do to focus your time on what will matter more: bringing in customers and validating your core idea.
• Is the valuation for tax purposes? The biggest thing missing from your thought process in these answers is to go one level deeper into why different companies would need this type of valuation, and I think these different use cases will inform how you design your marketing and inbound sales funnels.
• $99 seems reasonable for this type of service.
• I'd suggest setting up a basic landing page with email capture asap. This will also help you refine your exact marketing pitch. It's one thing to say what your service does. it's another thing entirely to start thinking about how you want to pitch to real customers and making this concrete with some basic marketing & copy text.
• Before you get too far on the impl, this is the perfect use case for a no-code MVP. I would highly recommend you check out https://typeform.com and/or https://www.makerpad.co before writing a single line of code.
• This will allow you to get something released super fast and start focusing on what actually matters -- bringing in actual customers and validating that they will pay for this service.
• Only once you've done this, then put in more time into automating the process and possibly creating a more tailored website.
• I think the single most important aspect you'll need to focus on will be outbound marketing. Here are some great resources to level up on this side of things that you may find useful: https://blog.saasify.sh/indie-saas-resources/

Overall, I really like what you're offering. Before building anything I would try to get some real customers who want to use this as a manual service (maybe you already this from past consulting work?). Maybe talk to other tax professionals who offer this at a higher price point and understand their specific customer and distribution channels?

I hope this feedback was useful & keep up the great work. 💯

Please consider checking out saasify.sh & letting me know what you think.

Cheers 😄

Hey Victor 👋

Happy to try & help.

• The UI & marketing on your landing page looks really clean 💯
• Market research & competitive analysis are really important and often under-emphasized by indie hackers who like to focus on their own solution (i've been guilty of this too at times 😂).
• Have you looked thoroughly at https://uptimerobot.com/, https://checklyhq.com/, https://cronhub.io/, https://www.easycron.com/, https://apex.sh/ping/, https://microlink.io/ (releasing a service like this soon), and the dozens of other similar services?
• To be clear, I'm definitely not trying to discourage you. The fact that all these services exist means there's def a large market need. I'm just pushing you to focus a little more on what's differentiating about your solution.
• Pricing seems way too high compared to competitors.
• I recently built http://simplecron.dev as an open source example for saasify, and in doing so I did quite a bit of market research around other solutions in this space. I only spent about a week on Simple Cron in total, so a lot of my advice for Pingr could prolly also be used to add some love to that at some point.

Overall, I think you have a great MVP. The most important differentiator for success / failure of your product will be whether you're able to market it effectively and a large part of that will be differentiating yourself from more well known competitors. This is a crazy crowded space, and unless you're really lucky it will take a long time to grow a user base, but if you're persistent, and get really creative with different marketing experiments, I think you'll do just fine.

I'd recommend you check out this list of free resources for developers wading into the wide open seas of marketing: https://blog.saasify.sh/indie-saas-resources/

Hope this helps 😄

Also, I'd be really curious to hear if you were starting today from scratch whether or not you'd consider using saasify.sh as a solution to launch this type of service in a few days?

Hey Reza 👋

• I love the really focused target audience and from your profile pic it looks like you may be a trainer yourself haha 😄 Always great to focus on an audience that you understand really well.
• there's a lot of momentum with COVID around solutions like this to take traditionally in-person interactions and move them online. it's great timing for a solution like this -- but you'll need to move fast.
• while I really like your general business idea, the current MVP needs a lot of love on the design and copy text side of things.
• create a more professional logo quickly & easily with https://looka.com
• your main hero text on the landing page is way too long. be concise. break things up into fragments. expect your visitors to be viewing this really quickly before they decide that it's worth their time to even consider.
• the main background video is excellent.
• consider hiring a cheap designer to make a pass over your site. a single pass changing the colors, layout, fonts, and copy text will make a 10000% difference in the professionalism and polish of your solution. imho this is the single most important thing you can do right now.
• the example videos are key especially since your entire product is based around video. right now, they're way too small i have no idea what's going on in them. make the text smaller and focus on the video content. also cut down on the text content everywhere. like take a hacksaw and just cut most of it out. people will not read this much stuff on a landing page.
• pricing - I get that you're just trying to get this out there and things aren't fully automated yet, but my advice is to NOT make this free up front. you're going to get much better feedback from early users if they actually have skin in the game. people like me who will give you real advice for free are very hard to find.
• I love that you already have iOS & android apps and they look like solid MVPs. i'm curious what technology or dev service you used to create them?
• not able to log into the trainer portal so can't give feedback on that side of things.
• the most difficult part of two-sided marketplaces like this (and saasify 😄) is that you really have to have enough supply to justify demand and your marketing / sales efforts are duplicated across two very diff groups & channels for supply vs demand respectively.
• read everything this guy has written about bootstrapping a marketplace: https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-to-kickstart-and-scale-a-marketplace
• add a separate landing page like /trainers that just focuses on the supply side of your marketplace.

Overall I really like what you're doing. Keep up the great work! 💯

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Hey Boris 👋

• Be careful of https://xkcd.com/927/
• The big player in this space that I'm aware of is https://www.meetup.com
• There's always room for competitors to come in starting with a very, very focused niche and then expanding from there. Just know that if you try to focus on too big of a niche (like all of tech sector), you're going to have a really tough time getting initial traction. You'd always rather have 10 people who really need your service than 1000 people who check it out and never use it.
• Wow, https://hopin.to is extremely well done (one of your events links there). I wasn't aware of them but I really like their design & messaging. I'd encourage you to use them as inspiration and really think hard about how you want to differentiate your service from what they're doing.

Overall, I think this is a great start on the path to an MVP. I'd spend some more time doing market research to understand the existing competitors, their pricing models, and whether or not there are really focused niche communities that you can serve better than they can. Otherwise, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle trying to compete with these related companies that have been around a lot longer and have a lot more resources.

Keep up the great work! 💯

Also, if this feedback was useful, check out saasify.sh and let me know what you think 😄

Hey Albert 👋

• "A lot needs to be updated and changed." - No worries haha this is how I always feel no matter how far along the project is 😂
• Competitive analysis is super important to do thoroughly before getting too far into this type of thing. I'm def not saying it won't be possible to succeed on account of competitors -- rather, I'm saying that it's important to really understand what similar solutions exist before diving into a solution.
• I'd recommend you check out https://carrd.co and https://www.oneprofile.info as two products that have done pretty well in this space recently. It's a pretty crowded market to be honest. With that being said, that doesn't mean you can't be successful -- it'll be important to understand how you want to differentiate your offering from these existing solutions and if possible, really, really focus your initial MVP on a very narrow use case. If you're focusing on freelance writers & their portfolios, instead of trying to create something so generic, I'd encourage you to think about a more rigid solution that solves this really, really well for that one group and that one group only. Like a single template that looks great for a writing portfolio and you can just edit basic content. Instead of the more generic portfolio creator it looks like you're working on right now.
• What are you using for hosting that's giving you at static IP address? I would really recommend you check out https://vercel.com or https://www.netlify.com which will give you a much better developer experience and allow you to move faster.

Definitely like where your head's at overall 💯 Keep up the great work!

Also, if this feedback has been helpful, I'd love it if you checked out what we're cooking up over at Saasify.

Cheers 😄

Not the OP, but I'm playing in a similar space and I've got some thoughts. The 4 Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin has been a game changer for me in understanding how people form and break habits and why I couldn't keep any habit until I read that book. My own project helps with emotional stability and is helpful with procrastination and breaking bad habits. Just set up anlanding page with some info at wujuapp.com. ping me if you want to play with some ideas together.

Hey Josh 😄

Happy to try & help.

• Overall, I really like the choice of problem and your high level thoughts on a solution so far. It's a lot better to start with this solid base.
• Documenting progress and sharing / accountability are both great pieces of a solution. I also think keeping track of streaks is an important psychological incentive to re-enforce good habits (see this app for inspiration here). This is similar to how AA and other support groups encourage users to stick with gameplans.
• I could see two possible high level paths forward. On the one hand, really spending a lot of time studying the underlying psychological effects, researching how other platforms & apps have tried to solve this problem, and understanding their various strengths & weaknesses would ultimately allow you to approach things from a better foundation. On the other hand and more indie hackers style, I think getting an MVP out with a small set of core features will probably be a better use of your time with the primary goal of not necessarily getting users and solving their problem right away but rather to get it in front of people and get valuable feedback that will help guide your roadmap.
• I'd encourage you to find a balance between these long-term and short-term approaches. Depending on how invested you are in solving this one particular problem, then leaning more heavily on the long-term approach will be better - just know that it'll be at the expense of short-term progress. There's nothing wrong either either approach btw -- just be aware of their tradeoffs and really try to think internalize this decision process consciously when you're deciding what to work on day to day.
• Oooooh one thing I think is incredibly enticing here and could be really unique would be the ability to frame this process as maintaining video clips of your progress streaks with the ability to ultimately compile them into inspirational montage videos. Like https://1se.co but with more of a focus on motivation and accountability. This would be really, really interesting and something I'd consider using myself.
• I'm the author of https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/ffmpeg-concat which is free and open source and could be useful if you want to concat these clips together. Honestly though it's more focused on interesting OpenGL transitions which if you have quick clips may not be necessary.

Anyhow, I love what you're doing. Keep up the great work!

If you found my feedback helpful, please consider checking out saasify & my twitter. Cheers 😄

Hey Oron 😄

• Holy sheise, how much did you pay for that domain?! 👀

• My first thought on inboxes.com is that it's a premium domain that has to be worth upwards of $20k. If you didn't purchase it for this project specifically and are well funded, that's great but if you did throw down this type of $ up front before validating your MVP and graduating from being an indie hacker, it's probably not the best long-term option. I know I'm making a lot of assumptions here so you can probably ignore me - just giving you my stream of consciousness thoughts.

• Overall the value prop is pretty clear and there's def a lot of potential in what you're doing. It's a unique solution and I really like it.

• Remove the emoji from your main hero text. It cheapens what you're offering.

• Your main tagline should be more concise if possible and if not, maybe break it up visually to emphasize the "without" part by using a diff color / font. look around online to find some common examples of this type of UI pattern.

• The actual content and subpages load really crisp and quickly. You have a huge advantage of being able to have these preview and detail pages look 💯UI-wise off the bat by the fact that each of these newsletters is designed by teams of legit folks and you can just piggy back off that polish.

• I suggest adding some type of social / gaming numbers to each page (# of views, users, etc). To artificially inflate these numbers up front, bootstrap these numbers with an estimate of how many email subscribers the actual newsletters get. These are the "suckers" in a sense that your users are being more efficient than and this is a great psychological tactic to show the concrete value of what you're providing.

Overall, I love the value prop and implementation -- you're definitely further along than the average indie hacker and I wish you all the best 😄

If this feedback was helpful, consider checking out & giving feedback on saasify & my twitter.

Cheers 😄

Hey Joe 👋

• the idea sounds great -- there's a lot of value in creating online communities for traditionally offline events especially post-COVID.
• "board games" in general is pretty generic. I think it'll help a lot to be able to filter by game type which will also do something really important for you.. it'll make sure that your top game types are listed prominently on your home page and nav footer for SEO purposes.
• ahhh i just saw that your "online events" link isn't actually your homepage.. your actual homepage is 💯😄
• keep this persistent footer nav on the online events page as well.
• ahhh the search page is excellent.
• when I typed 11201 (my NYC area code) into the search page location for magic the gathering, it just gave me the default search results and as a normal user i'd prolly bail right there. are you using normal google maps search for this? when I autocompleted "new york" the search worked as expected.
• im guessing you'll eventually monetize board game stores for traffic and the event widget. since you have a two-sided marketplace (supply side stores that put on events and demand side gamers who want to attend events), you really want individual landing pages for both of these. i think your current landing page is excellent and targeted at gamers. i suggest adding a page devoted to the supply side marketing your benefits and developing those relationships. check out how other two-sided marketplaces focus separate landing pages on the two sides of things for inspiration.
• the most difficult part of two-sided marketplaces like this (and saasify 😄) is that you really have to have enough supply to justify demand and your marketing / sales efforts are duplicated across two very diff groups & channels for supply vs demand respectively.
• read everything this guy has written about bootstrapping a marketplace: https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-to-kickstart-and-scale-a-marketplace
• overall I really like what you're doing & wish you the best!

Hope this helps 😄

If you found it useful, please consider checking out saasify, my twitter, etc. Cheers 😄

Hey Akin 👋

First off, I'm curious if you've used Pitchgen to create any actually useful ideas? 😂😄

Alright, onto Posterday.

• I love the online community aspect -- it's clearly a trend with COVID and will only become more important in the future. Great long-term bet.
• This reminds me a bit of Indiehackers for new age academics which a great idea.
• I see that you have some social signals on the detail pages which is great (star ratings and number of views). They don't appear to be functional yet but this is an important feature for a community because gamification and dopamine hits and all that psychological goodness. I would recommend that you add these stats to each entry in your gallery view as well.
• Really, really love your Videoask. It's an excellent way to provide a friendly intro to the community as you gradually polish the MVP over time.
• What are you using to embed the posters? I feel like PDF will probably be the preferred format. Whatever you can do to make the onboarding experience for new researchers easier to handle the format they're already using.
• Early community engagement is going to be important. You're going to be battling against the "empty room" problem of a blank community -- but don't be discouraged cause every community starts there. 😄
• I'd think about how you can get really popular for an even smaller academic niche and then have a searchable hierarchy of metadata for diff fields. If I'm a distributed network computer scientist I probably don't care too much about diff topics but that's kinda just the default. Maybe include ask for this enum when a user signs up so it's clear on their profile page that you have structured data for A) their university affiliations B) their primary country C) general field of study D) specialties

Overall, I like the direction. Maybe ask around IH for tips on building a strong community from people like @csallen who've already done it before 😄

Hope this was helpful && best of luck!

Hey Valdir 😄

• "Be the first to try it out!" makes it seem like nobody's interested. I'd suggest something more gated.
• For your "use cases", the nav header is great to use this as a catch-all but your footer should ideally have individual links for each use case since it's important that your home page rank for each of these search terms highly.
• Your target customers are very very narrow and honestly selling to developers is a very difficult approach because we tend to be very skeptical and you also have the "build vs buy" mentality to contend with. I'm not saying this can't be successful but your choice of target market is going to make things difficult. I'd be curious to hear what your go-to-market strategy is around acquiring these target customers? If you have some existing authority or distribution channels for these devs, that would change the picture quite a bit.

A tool that can query files in cloud object storages (AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Wasabi) directly through their API keys, without needing to download them

Is this a strong need? A critical ask that you've seen over and over?

I'm not trying to be discouraging at all -- I'd much rather give you my honest opinion than sugar coat things and I'm having a tough time seeing a customer who really genuinely needs this. The % cost w.r.t Amazon is compelling and if you're an order of magnitude better and cheaper than I'd say that you've found yourself a great product, but AWS, GCP, Azure are all racing to the bottom for pricing things like this.

Reading your about page the product makes a lot more sense now (sorry this is stream of consciousness as I go through). I honestly may not be qualified in terms of understanding what this cloud storage landscape at scale looks like so don't take my opinions too harshly.

I guess when I think about the types of tech companies and enterprises that are using this amount of data at scale, I feel like cost isn't generally the deciding factor in purchasing decisions. The phrase "nobody has ever been fired for buying ibm" seems very relevant here. In other worse, if my understanding of your target buyers is correct, they're much more likely to go with the known vendors AWS / Google / etc even if they're more expensive or slightly less convenient because they're the safer bet.

Customers from Backblaze B2 and Wasabi, that have no way to analyze their files without building a whole pipeline. Also devops and dataops that want to build Server Log Analytics or a Data Lake

This is how a developer would answer this question. If you take one thing away from my feedback, I'd encourage you to really develop a much, much clearer picture of who your target buyer is. E.g., a VP of technology at a Fortune 5000 company whose organization is using multiple cloud providers and his decision process looks like X and the way I will get in touch with him / her looks like Y.

The clearer of an answer you can have to this the better.

Overall, the tech itself looks really awesome btw -- I'm sure it's crazy complicated under the hood.

Congrats on launching & I wish you & your team all the best. 😄

Hey Bryan 👋

• Awesome branding, domain & logo

• Instead of "fast & comprehensive" maybe "fast & unintrusive"

• I think the async / lack of interruptions / unintrusive portion of things should be emphasized a bit more as that's the main pain point I've experienced.

• You don't mention the word "scrum" at all. Is that intentional? I think at some point it'll be important to focus a whole page on this use case and ensure that it's linked to in your site-wide footer for SEO purposes.

• I've been seeing a lot of what I would call Micro SaaS point solutions that are focused on a really targeted use case like this around connecting a few services together. Zapier and a whole slew of low/no-code platforms are doing this pretty well in the more abstract case but I've also seen where these types of focused SaaS integrations (essentially a single Zap as the MVP) can do really well because you're able to focus bottom up instead of top down. Both directions have their merits and clearly the bottom up approach is more reasonable for indie hackers 😄

• I like your use of the calculator on the landing page.. I'd be more focused on trying to figure out who your target user is at this point maybe via a Typeform. I know you're focused on technical teams and at $3 / user / mo it's focused on being self-serve. But how does this get adopted? Maybe it would be a PM that tells their team they're using this or a fellow indie hacker who convinces the rest of their team to use it? Either way, it's probably not that useful unless your whole team buys in and you probably need to focus on the "invite my coworkers" aspect of things once you've signed up.

• I'm guessing the Stripe side of things isn't set up yet?

• Overall it's a really solid and clean MVP. kudos

Hope this helps!

Hey Isaac 👋

• First thought is that I love the value prop.
• "Start taking orders now" is an amazing CTA.
• Great start for an MVP - landing page def needs work. Social proof, some quotes (even if they're from your friends), etc would be great.
• The yellow all over is a bit much. I like it at the top but below the fold the gradient seems cheesy.
• Your inline video is 10000% awesome. Show, don't tell -- kudos.

Best of luck 💯

Hey Geoff,

This post got a lot more attention than I anticipated and I'm trying to give in-depth feedback for each reply, so hopefully I'll be able to respond more in-depth soon. My first thought is that this sounds like a great project to ease into things but it'll be difficult to turn into a product. The 30-day selfie reel is 🔥Someone else in this thread has a similar idea -- you two should definitely connect. And check out the feedback I posted on their response for some more ideas.

Hey Himanshu,

I will hopefully get to this soon. This post got a lot more attention than I anticipated and I'm trying to give in-depth feedback for each reply. My first thought is that your landing page, core value prop, and UX are all really sharp.

Hey Eli,

If you want people to give you their time, then at least read the post and follow the format.

Hey @xtbyhn 👋

• I love what you're working on. We should definitely chat as I have talked with a few dozen diff companies in the low/no-code space. Hit me at [email protected]
• You should be dog-fooding your email subscriber particle on your homepage and make it very clear that it's a live example. People will try out the example and in doing so also implicitly sign up for your beta. Not having a live example of one of these particles is imho the biggest thing missing from your site.
• https://memberstack.io does a great job of having a live "particle" that you can interact with. Use this as inspiration.
• I have a list of 10-12 other competitors that are doing similar things, some of which have raised some non-trivial funding. This is great -- it means you're onto something, but it also means you really need to have a solid idea of these competitors so you can develop a strategy around how to position yourself in the market. It may not be winner take all but momentum and being aware of your competitors, what they're doing well, etc, definitely helps.
• fucking awesome domain. when I first read particle systems, I thought it was related to gpgpu graphics stuff which I'm a huge fan of. this is my personal site btw https://transitivebullsh.it so you can see what I mean 😄
• your current instructions are very focused on adding to static sites that are developed via node.js which i think is great to start. i think where you'll find a lot more adoption, however, is by targeting non-developers (think wix, squarespace, etc). i'm sure this is in your roadmap, but it's worth discussing since i've learned the hard way that it's really, really hard to sell early solutions to developers given their inherent skeptical nature and build vs buy mentality.
• you really need to have an OSS presence with this type of product. it will help sooo much in the long term as a natural form of content marketing. even if it's just a placeholder for now. i wrote about this in-depth here: https://blog.saasify.sh/saasify-open-core/

Overall, I love the idea and your current landing page is really solid. I think there are some small tweaks that would really help you out and I'd be glad to chat further. I could also intro you to some of the more established players in the low/no-code space.

In return, I'd love it if you showed saasify some love by checking out our socials 😄

Keep up the great work && cheers 💯

Hey Rahid, happy to help 😄

• (minor but worth noting) "Yeah sure" isn't a great way to thank someone experienced who's offering to help you for free. Kindness and gratitude are really important online because we can't see each other face to face and it's hard to tell what someone's thinking.
• "My target audience would be..." - this is a great start. I would recommend focusing much more narrowly on a specific segment of digital marketers and a specific use case for now.
• Your core value prop makes a lot of sense.
• "Direct your customers to a checkout page rather than a webpage." makes no sense to me. when i read "checkout page" i think ok that's a webpage. be more clear especially in your Hero copy text.
• The checkout process itself is a great MVP. Your checkout page UX needs a lot of polish and since it's your 100% core offering I'd focus your time there since right now it's not something visually that I'd feel comfortable sending customers to. Hire a cheap designer from fiverr if you have to - this flow has to be rock solid UX.
• Having address be a text box instead of individual fields is a no-no for web design. Are you using Stripe under the hood? If so, I'd strongly urge you to use stripe elements which implements all of these fields in a 100% consistent and compliant way.
• In terms of your main product offering, selling physical products like t-shirts vs digital goods & services is a large distinction with lots of diff implications. Are you focused on e-commerce or services? Right now, your example is e-commerce but everything else seems like it's focused on digital goods... really focus on one of these use cases.
• Why would I use this over Gumroad? It's okay to compete with them - they've been wildly successful because there is a great market for this type of product. You should spend some time understanding their UX, marketing, and impl very very closely. And then pick a super narrow niche that will be able to compete with them in a much more focused way.

Overall, I really like the product and direction and your MVP looks relatively solid. Great work & I hope my feedback helps.

-- Travis