StaffUp.ai first pro users! 🥳 July Update

Hey everyone I'm back to give you all an update on StaffUp.ai. It's been the first month since I launched StaffUp Pro. Let's dive in

My highlights ✨

💰First 3 Pro users @ $57 MRR 🥳
🦾 63 user on the free plan.
💸 Operating costs $3.59 (not sure if month to month?🧐) for OpenAI usage + $20 Vercel hosting.
📣 New public roadmap for features (https://staffup.ai/roadmap)
👌 Refined the branding and UI (better for mobile).
📝 Wendy, the WordPress developer AI.
🧱 Starting Prompt/Templates give people an idea of what's possible.

I'm super excited to have the first pro users onboard! It's some validation that I'm onto something with StaffUp.

Here's a Tweet showcasing the templates & Wendy the WordPress developer. I tried to promote this with Twitter Ads, which resulting in some traffic & signups.

As excited as I am, I can't help feel like I'm missing something crucial, or it's not moving fast enough. I'll try to explain.

My biggest pain 🫣

I need to keep my focus where the demand is, therefore I need to talk to the users. The people who are using StaffUp in their daily workflow. However it's been a bit of radio silence. So, I've been thinking about how I could possible get more feedback.

• Added a proper support/contact form.
  I couldn't' expect people to manually send emails, so I spent time adding a simple form.
• Roadmap - I wanted to a quick way for people to get inspired and give feedback on different ideas. I thought a simple roadmap would do the trick. They can offer feedback on any ideas, planned feature or even completed features. I wanted to quickly have this up and running, therefore I use the support form with prefilled information for feedback.
• Welcome email via Mailchimp. New accounts will get a welcome mails 1 day after signing up. The email basically asks them for their feedback on the roadmap, and what they'd love to see.

Even after implementing these ways of contact, I'm still not seeing much contact from anyone. Do you have any ideas?

Plans for the next month 📈

There's a couple of things I want to explore.

1. I want to extend the StaffUp Pro features and get more feedback from existing users. I'll try sending another newsletter soon.
2. Experiment with Function Calling from OpenAI. I have some sweet ideas that will include keyword research for SEO and more.
3. Create simple text editor inside StaffUp (based on the Novel Example from Vercel) I'm actually using a early build to write this post.
4. Create the tools for getting tasks done. Some tasks doesn't need a whole chat. Therefore I'm going to look into a Tools section for StaffUp.

I'm still looking for feedback or ideas on how you'd gather feedback, so please reach out 🤝

P.s I'm still Tweeting/Xeeting about the development if you want to following along https://twitter.com/morganhvidt

P.s.s doesn't Indiehackers have formatting options??

Thank you!
Morgan Hvidt