Build in public: It's My Fault!
by Ugur KILCI 💎You remember the 3000 member 10 paid member post. I am to blame. I don't deny it. The problem is very good! I have a real success story opportunity! Super exciting! 😀
I first tried to get feedback from my users for the solution. You know. But they don't give feedback. So did I give up? No! 😁
I watched the behavior of the users, I looked at the data they created and I saw a common problem, they can't use the image widget. Because most of them think that all links are the same. They cannot distinguish between the image link and the website link. Video, PDF, or folders are not images. But the user does not know this. According to him, they are all links.
I understood all this by seeing the data of the users. They don't even understand the local images and the images on the internet. Some of them have used image links on the computer in the form of file:///.
The problem is obvious. The solution is to educate. First I changed the existing texts, I told the links to be .png, and .jpg, and I even took a video and turned it into a GIF, what do you think happened?
It didn't work! ⛔👎 So the answer is not in education. Then what do we have left?
Bingo! Design! 💡
First, I did web design like my competitors. Then, when I talked to them about this problem because I am a member of Komunite.com.tr, which is the partner of Acquire.com (formerly MicroAcquire) in Turkey, they told me to design according to the Notion interface. Yes, I did so, but it was not enough. You know the rest.
Now I am designing with a brand new understanding outside of Notion and all the design styles of my competitors. I threw away the papers and opened a new page.
The design (i.e. UX) must be good so that users can act intuitively and solve the problem. That's why I've been coding the design I've been creating in Figma since yesterday.
Look at the design of the image widget, which is the main problem today. I removed everything unnecessary, including the logo! I removed all kinds of text that would confuse it. I am redesigning the whole design with images, positions, and shapes.
I tweeted other details about what I was doing. 👇
(Let's see if I can solve the problem and reach my goal of $1000 MRR. I share the whole process transparently! You can be informed about the whole process by following me!)
