Hey everyone,
I am glad to share our progress with you. After several months of development we decided to radically change our idea and move in a different direction.
More than a year ago, I shared a post about our startup. The idea was well received by the community, but unfortunately, we didn’t find a consistent way to acquire new users. We had several dozens of users, but no clear understanding of what to do next and no real growth 🤯
As a result, we decided to go for a radical change. We stopped our first version, changed the idea of the service, developed a new landing page, and built a new admin panel.
During our development, we have spent some time choosing the best instruments for us. I hope this list will save some time for fellow developers!
Database - PostgreSQL
Monitoring and metrics - Prometheus, Grafana
Admin panel - MUI
Live chat for landing page and admin panel - Chatwoot
Email delivery service - SendGrid
Internal knowledge base - Notion
Graphics editor - Figma
Payments - Paddle
If you want to follow our journey you can do it on twitter
I know it’s just a beginning, but let’s work hard and stay hopeful!
What was your previous idea ?
Did you find a way to acquire users ? How did you do it ?
We launched a service for creating video widgets for websites. You can check how it works on our website (the tool still works, but we don't promote it anymore).
We didn't find a consistent way how to acquire users, and it was the main reason why we stopped the development.
What programing lang has been used in backend ?
How many paying users are there right now ?
java & spring boot
We just launched 🤓
Great that you were able to pivot. I have realized that great entrepreneurs are not afraid of killing their ideas to start new ones. I interviewed Michelle who, together with her co-founders, have pivoted their idea in the middle Y Combinator.
best of luck
Nice, would be interesting to see if you acquire more users now!