Candl
The non-social book-tracking webapp
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July 16, 2020
First paid customer
It's been more than a month since I've launched a paid subscription plan, and now I finally have my first customer.
It's really hard to analyze what I did to make this happen. It's just 1 customer so that easily can be a coincidence, but I did some improvements just a couple days before:
- A more appealing and clean visual design of the upgrade page
- Changed the language: "Plus plan" => "Avid Reader", "Subscribe now" => "Join the club"
- More features listed (I added "early access to new features", "no ads", "priority assistance")
- Added "Avid Reader" link to the menu area, where it can't be missed
Anyways, the step "from zero to one" taken, hoping to get more paid customers soon.
June 9, 2020
Launched a paid subscription plan
Candl is 3 years old, and so far I wasn't able to monetize it despite about 100 unique daily users. Recently I decided to introduce a paid subscription plan ($9 / mo) with several extra features like:
- Ability to add custom statuses (say, "Abandoned" or "Paused")
- Custom UI themes
- Better tooling for notes, ability to publish online
I will need to think about more features to add here.
Still not quite sure what this will lead me, but we'll see 🤞
4 Comments
Congrats! One thing I notice on your landing page in wide screen is some the contents is full width which does not look that good in my opinion, for wide screen a fixed width is much better I think.
Oh yeah, good point. I will need to rethink the landing page anyways soon
Congrats, I got a paid customer recently as well.
Congrats to you!