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Got my first customer on the life time plan

I've been working on Remote Leaf for the past few months, and two weeks back I've introduced a lifetime plan and got the first customer.

I'm happy to record this as a milestone.

Thank you indie hackers, for your support and inspiring stories.

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    Well done. I just tried to check out the site and it wouldn't load, is there an issue with it at the minute?

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      That's not good. I just tried it from my laptop and it worked. Are you trying this on a mobile?

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        I was on a laptop. It seems to be working now. I was tethered to my phone so the signal must have just been poor. Sorry for any panic, will check it out.

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          sure, thank you 👏 Let me know how it goes!

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    I just checked out your service, the value proposition seems great. But pricing model is a bit off, I'd say.

    To a regular human, your website provides a close to "once in while" service, but a highly valuable one. I'd expect for that to be reflected in the pricing - not a subscription model, but rather a fee based one.

    You are doing a very similar job to the real estate agents - you search for jobs to match a client, they search houses that match. But they charge a percent of the buy, not any form of subscription.

    There's a high chance that in a week or two your client might find a job through your service. In total, they paid a very, very small amount of money for a service that literally changed their life. And they won't be using your service for a long time (let's say maybe 2 years). There's a disbalance there. So you gave them immense value, yet didn't earn nearly enough. (Calculating human hours spent searching and fee that you charge, I wouldn't be surprised if it was barely making any money after costs are accounted for. It won't scale!)

    Tracking if your user has applied for a job and whether it got it so that you can charge at that moment is tricky, I get it. Maybe have them give you all the data: CV, resume, cover, basic data...so that you can fill out and send applications for a job that they simply pick. In a long run, you become some form of a hiring platform. But that's another story altogether...

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      Great observation! Could he possible charge more for the subscription? Maybe a few hundred as opposed to the $10/month?

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        Can't ask from a user to pay in advance a high price for only a potential of a return value. Imagine real estate charging you in advance, makes no sense.

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          That not entirely true, Linkedin Premium for Job Seeker isn't cheap, I would have 10/month but maybe in order to receive the responses from employers (if there is one) or more importantly, in order to engage in any further communication - Applicant must pay the remaining ~90/mnth..., or if the hiring organization is in the willing to cover that cost ... each time they move a candidate along your adding that same 90/applicant in revenue but in a more justifiable manner IMO.

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    Excellent that is great news. Well done

  4. 1

    Woohoo! 🙌
    Congratulations!

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    That was me I think. The first lifetime customer. -Andrew

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      Yes, I can confirm this :) Thank you for supporting a indiehacker 🙏

  6. 1

    Congrats! I love your landing, clean and straight to point.

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    This looks cool. I'm going to share in a group I'm in!

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      Thank you, may I know what kind of the group is that?

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        It's a Facebook group of developers from/in the Caribbean region.

        https://www.facebook.com/groups/devcarib/

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    Congratulations Abinaya! Remote Leaf looks like a very useful service. I'll be sure to give it a try next time I'm job hunting.

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    Congratulations - that's amazing! I like the look of your service. I would have definitely considered using this during my last job search.
    I think it's interesting that someone decided to pay for a lifetime membership. That goes against my intuition about how someone would use a service like this. But thinking on it further, I think it makes sense. They are possibly planning to depend on your service for whatever jobs they look for from now on.

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      Oh, that's interesting perspective. I didn't think on that line.

      Thanks for summarizing it.

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    Cool, just signed up for the free trial.

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        Hey just so you know I still haven't gotten a confirmation email. I don't care too much, but you might want to have a better email system in the future for customers who expect the near instant email.

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          Oh yeah man, I still need to fix the email automation. Please consider this as a confirmation. Thanks for the report.

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            Hey got my first email and it was a little buggy. You'll see at the bottom of this bug report that gmail says "[Message Clipped]" and the entire email is right aligned. When I click "View entire message", then I see the email centered in a new window. https://pasteboard.co/IRka8lM.png

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              Ah, thanks for the report. I've tested with diff number of job lists on the email, it happens when the number of jobs is more than 30 and if it's less than that it looks good.

              I'll do some more troubleshooting this weekend and see what's wrong.

  11. 1

    Congrats! Looks like an awesome product, keep it up!

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    I would love to see a salary based filter for job postings. Not sure how much additional work that'd be on your end, but that was my first concern.

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      yes, we have been including the salary information for the jobs that have specified in the description.

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    Looks Nice! If you don't mind, can you share the tech stack being used.

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      Python/Django powering the site and python scripts for the email automation using sendgrid.

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        Thanks! And best of luck with your startup :)

  14. 1

    many congratulations, it's a precious moment.

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