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A couple of problems I see: 1) $5/month is not sustainable for a company. $15/month is better (which I see you tried later on). 2) You really shouldn't have g
by paulhauggis 11y ago
A couple of problems I see:
1) $5/month is not sustainable for a company. $15/month is better (which I see you tried later on).
2) You really shouldn't have gotten rid of a 25 year old consulting company. That was a really bad idea
You should have used your clients to figure out a product that they need and used them as your first beta users.
Most products aren't an instant success. It took me 3 years before I started seeing some sort of profit with my current company. It took another year before I was able to quit all of my consulting gigs.
- prawn 11y agoDid it take you three years to make a single dollar though? This to me was a story of someone who put in so much effort and time but made early mistakes that compounded later. I found it posted on Reddit - the author was wondering if they should shelve the app and try something else, or persist. (My strong vote would be to drop it and try something else.)
- cyberferret 11y agoTrue - I have read in a lot of places that $20/month seems to be the 'magic number' for a sustainable web app. Because this one is so simple, and really has been set up as a test case for future (larger) web apps, I was happy to just get to the stage where I could have a few hundred paying users @ $5/mth. That would easily pay the back end hosting bills and give me some spare cash to experiment with different forms of online marketing.