Tierakte

Today we got our first customer! Let's see how long we can keep him and if any more will follow (hopefully).

Currently, marketing is one of my biggest challenges. I find it quite hard to advertise that people should pay for very little functionality. However, I tell myself that if I don't find any paying customers with a poorly communicated vision (I'm not good at communicating), I might not find any later on with a feature-rich product.

Especially if you're not used to follow along on social media (there's such a nice life besides the internet without its constant assessment of one's value), it's quite hard to start talking about your project on the internet. Although it seems that it's quite necessary to grow your customer base.

I just connected Stripe to Tierakte.ch and successfully tested the payment in the live system. That's quite a step for me as this is the first time I connect to a payment system.

Customers could now potentially create a subscription, which is currently aimed at early adopters (i.e. low price). However, there is no functionality at all. Yet! 🐱

I'm now going to start to add actual features which actually add value. In hindsight, it would have probably been a better idea to first implement some features and manually bill customers (if at all). I believe Basecamp did exactly that.