First Real Customer on ManyStories.com
by Lincoln W DanielSince 2019, I've been passively building ManyStories and watching it grow organically. Yesterday, my first customer decided to pay $25 a month for a more premium experience and treatment on our platform. Today, I actually built and delivered the first paid feature.
Backstory & Offerring
ManyStories is a platform that gives writers a place to share all of their stories, regardless of where they publish, and an opportunity to reach an existing pool of readers.
There are thousands of visitors to ManyStories.com each week. Now, 5 years after my beta soft launch, I've decided to add a paid option for writers who want more visibility on ManyStories to pay a premium fee for promotion on our most prominent surfaces.
For $25 a month, our paid members will mainly get daily promotion on our homepage, story page, and share-story page. They will also get more features; this is the current running list:
- Daily Homepage Promotion of Your Stories
- Premium Profile Page
- No Ads
- Your Own Dedicated Member Page
- Entry on Members List
- Suggest New Features
Pricing Model
I purposefully priced this relatively high because I want the few users who decide to pay to get the most value that I can deliver at this current stage of the platform. For comparisons, I charge 5 times more than Medium charges for their base subscription. The difference is Medium's target customer is the reader while mine is the writer.
I will add more features later and probably a cheaper subscription option.
