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One last attempt.

It's September now and even though I've had more than 500 users register for Monocle since January, there's zero active users and not a single income ever since 'launch'. So, what should I do? Truth is I still use Monocle myself everyday so there's got to be some value in it... I'm giving it one last chance.
I'll re-do the landing page, try to do some promotion and see if a Product Hunt release gives me at least one paying user. That would be quite motivating.

January 2020 edit: Fuck this, I'm still going.

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    hey Tomas...curious, have you reached out to some of the 500 users and asked them why they're not active etc? I'm sure you have, curious what they said?

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      I have, and none responded tbh... so yeah... motivation -1

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        Hmm you mentioned you were refactoring some code and stuff and redoing the landing page. My gut says don't touch the product AT all as you have an issue in your validation funnel right? Like, you're not really finding out if your user really wants your product through your messaging... I think?

        What changes are you doing on the landing page?

        Seems to me like you need to figure out, on the landing page, if people really have a problem they'd pay to solve.

        Also, did you say they registered but didn't use it? Or use it but don't pay for it?

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          They registered but are not using it. Yeah, the problem is probably with the wording and how I address the issue. I was indeed in the middle of refactoring some code and making everything look a bit nicer, mainly for my own satisfaction, since I do use this product every single day to keep up to date with a lot of sites.

          Overall I've just lost motivation and focused on other things ever since this post. But I do still use the product and I'm always tinking of brining it back.

          I did a video with the landing page overhaul, you can check it out here if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnQVX_7W6s

          It's had a few minor changes since but I haven't published it because I was in the middle of refactoring some internal code and a whole UI redesign which mainly stopped because I got stuck with implementing the payments system.

          I could give it another shot...

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