Eden Photos
AI-powered image organisation for Mac
We added 300 EUR ARR recently and that took us across this very important first line of 1k.
I believe the reason for this upward trend is that we added a step-by-step onboarding to the app and are giving free credits at the end of the process for users to be able to test the paid features. We used to have a free trial with 10,000 credits, but it still required for people to add their credit card. By removing this unnecessary friction, we seem to have made it easier for people to test the AI features and make a decision to purchase.
The current free and paid subscribers are 100% organic as we're not doing any kind of marketing or promotions. This is of course bad, so I'm looking into what can be done to accelerate the process. Tutorials and me personally engaging on Twitter and LinkedIn seem to be the way to go for the momenta.
So far we've tried Facebook Ads (no result), Google Search Ads (had some results, but not great - only free users).
We'll also be doing an end-of-year sale. Any ideas on how to promote it?
With 22 upvotes, we're in the 14th position for the moment. Come leave a comment: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/eden-photos-2
This is the second time we're launching on Product Hunt. The first time was a complete flop as we weren't actually prepared and did a sloppy job. It seems like we're doing better this time!
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Sweet, good luck! I've upvoted. I'm also launching today here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/baseline-3
We got one more Indie Hacker launching today as well: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/serendipity-3
Looks like it's a busy day for us IndieHackers!
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Hey!
Thanks a lot for the upvote! I gave you mine as well. I hope we all get some great new users and feedback.
Good luck!
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It's live 😅
Eden Photos is our app that lets you use AI to put the images on your computer in order and makes them searchable by tags.
A lot of thinking, coding and testing has gone into this. My special thanks goes to the whole team from Eden Tech Labs (https://edentechlabs.io)
👉 @lachezar_todorov
👉 Daniel Petrovaliev
👉 Mira Stoilova
And ex-team member
👉 Tsvetiliyan Yankov
I'd also like to thank the team from Imagga (https://imagga.com) for their continued support in bringing this to life!
This app is somewhat special for me. It is the first product I launched back in 2015. It was just a taskbar app at the time. It wasn't very successful but it had some clients and was generating revenue. And more importantly I learned so much from it.
In 2016 I started taking on client projects and built a development agency around that. Eden Photos got left behind and despite multiple attempts to revive it in the past 5 years it never moved past the concept phase.
Last year, during the pandemic and the lockdowns I found the stories of @levelsio, @yongfook, @AndreyAzimov and the whole bootstrapping indie dev community. This inspired me to focus on products again and here we are :)
Let's hope this is just the beginning of a streak of launches and that something will stick eventually.
We're currently live on ProductHunt as well, if you'd like to check us out https://www.producthunt.com/posts/eden-photos-2
A lot of the reasons why we decided to go for a cross-platform solution for our desktop app are revolving around the fact that the Mac is currently not the only OS of choice for a professional that works with image files. On top of that, we believe that a lot of us have to deal with a lot of images, despite the fact that we're not pro photographers or designers. And not all of us are Mac users.
So, there it is. The Windows beta is available to download. You can get it here: https://edenphotos.io/download
We received feedback that some users are finding it hard to find how to provide feedback. There is a section for feedback in the settings screen of the app, but it was kind of hard to find. So, we added a shortcut to that on the main screen of the app.
There were a few bugs that we had to squash, so the long awaited beta launch is finally here. So far, we've sent an email notice to about 150 subscribers and have shared it around on social media. I did also submit to r/startups, but I'm not really aware how the process there works, so I'm not sure I did a proper job.
Before the launch we sent out a form to gather feedback (https://survey.typeform.com/to/rFcSdxk2) and we got more than 40 replies so far.
Let's see how it goes. We have feedback fro Beta testers coming in already and it seems we're on the right track :)
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Very innovative product. I didn't realise there was a commercial market for such a thing. How did you come up with the idea and is there a plan to create a personal tier?
Hey👋
Sorry, I missed this earlier 😅
It's still very early to tell what the size of the market is and potentially our biggest struggle is to figure out who exactly the target customer is.
I actually started building this and released one version all the way back in 2016 as a native Mac app. I have a friend with an AI image recognition company and he pointed me to the fact that they have a lot of people asking about personal photos organisation, which is not part of there offering. That's how I got the idea. It did get some traction, but it had a weird pricing policy (upfront payment + subscription after 6 months) and it heavily relied on a rather hacked together way to analyse images from the stock Photos app. At some point my "integration" with it was really not working great anymore due to some policy changes in Apple Photos. And I had to abandon it., as I was focused on other projects.
I did create social accounts and a website and I kept getting a few people a month asking about the product, so once I had enough resources I decided to build a proper app and test the market with it.
Yes, the pricing and the plans is the other variable we need to test with. What do you mean when you say a personal plan?