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Start charging. 3 plans -- good better best. use the money to hire another developer. maybe eventually build an iphone app; charge $5 for it. build an iPad app.
by adammichaelc 17y ago
Start charging. 3 plans -- good better best. use the money to hire another developer. maybe eventually build an iphone app; charge $5 for it. build an iPad app. charge $15 or $20 for it -- you're still selling to early adopters who have money so they will buy. i think the Getting Real book would be a good read, as @steveklabnik mentioned.
How many visitors do you get to the site currently? With a decent landing page with the paid option you could probably start out around a 0.5% - 1% +- conversion rate, and improve from there with some intense A/B testing. What's your free conversion rate?
Other random ideas:
1. Partner with a small company that has a popular paper day-planner but no technology. Grow together and cross-pollinate.
2. Partner with a huge company that has a popular paper day-planner but whose technology is lacking.
3. Partner with another planning company, Apiggo (ToDo) and work out a deal to play off each other's strengths somehow
4. Add team-tasking and sell that version to businesses
5. Partner with somebody that sells to people that love productivity stuff, like David Allen. There's probably somebody at HN that knows him, or knows somebody that knows him.
Anyway, you're an awesome designer! Great work. Good luck.
- aymeric 17y agoAdam, thanks for taking the time to answer. An iphone application has been a frequently asked feature from my users and I considered setting up an API for them to develop the iphone app. I don't like the iphone/ipad model (one-off sales versus subscriptions) but it is true that it would make my application more Premium. I haven't thought about it but what @nudge said is true, the Covey system is more than a todo application and my application can have a premium aspect. I thought of the team-tasking and it sounds like a viable idea to me too. I am getting enough traffic per day to get relevant data from A/B testing. The reason I haven't started them is because I am not sure if this is a viable market or not. I should probably survey the users to ask them. Thank you, your message was very helpful. (I consider myself a developer, not a designer :) I can barely use photoshop so I guess it is a nice compliment, thanks)
- MaysonL 17y agoIf you don't like the one-off sale model, make a free basic iPhone app that has an in-app subscription available to your premium features.