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Haha, yes. They were placeholders that ended up going live. Premier is named after our Grandpa, who calls things he loves "Premier". His friend he was in the Bo

by aacook 9y ago

Haha, yes. They were placeholders that ended up going live. Premier is named after our Grandpa, who calls things he loves "Premier". His friend he was in the Boy Scouts in during the 1940s is the Grandfather of Andy's best friend. Anytime my Grandpa talks about Andy's friend's family he calls them the "Premier Family of Weymouth" :) We'll probably keep the Premier plan but need to rename the others.

KGIII 9y ago
Bampa and Bumpa are sometimes used for grandfather. Meemaw and Mimmie for grandmother. I noticed your changing text of names. If you do international, the choices are huge. My kids haven't seemed to figure out how to make babies. I've even tried bribery, to no avail. So, I'll send your link to all my old people friends. They can then send the link to their children and guilt them into using your service. Maybe a HN launch would be good? Pardon me, if I missed it and you've already done it. Still, I'll forward it to the appropriate old folks for you. Good luck! It looks like a brilliant idea and the name is fantastic! Edit: Also, the price for 100 is really, really low. I don't know about the math, but that's impressive. If you're able to profit at that amount, great. However, I expect a much higher price for that number and, if actually wanted, would pay more - assuming the pics are on good quality stock and well done. I could also see some value added services. Touch ups, fancy text, maybe frames at holiday season, border themes, things like that. For fancy text you may need to license fonts, by the way. Edit again: A second opinion says your top two package prices are too low and she says the price 'makes her suspicious.' I asked why and she says it makes her think they are of poor quality. I asked her about pricing she said, "The first one is $0.79, so $0.69, $0.59, $0.49. Something like that." That's official Old Lady pricing suggestions. In other words, your highest package would be closer to $49.99 per month. I kind of agree with her - it would be more valuable than the price listed, of only I had a use. She also suggested marketing it to the grandparents. Here is her quote, "Just market it to the grandparents. They will pay to have their kids send them pictures. It would be even better if they could choose a big package and let all their children send in pictures using the same account." That's close to verbatim. The grandparents would have an account and their multiple kids could all send in pictures to the same account. Err... She also suggests $X.XX/picture after X-amount of pictures. LOL It probably would have saved time to just give her the keyboard. She's very optimistic about your service.
- aacook 9y ago
  Awesome feedback, thanks. HN launch could be fun. We haven't done that yet. Andy left this comment a couple hours ago on a whim and all of the sudden we're getting tons of crazy feedback! Right now we're just focused on trying to make the service solid for a handful of people. The feedback on pricing is helpful. I'd actually like to get the prices down to half of where they're at now. 6-month stretch goal :) Hadn't thought about the font customization over the images. Great idea. Thanks for sharing with your old folk friends. Best of luck with the creation of Grandchildren. I'm rooting for you.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    LOL I just edited my post - again. She tossed a few ideas out. They actually seem like sound ideas, because she is brilliant and perfect in every way. I like both the ideas, you're obviously not obligated to like them.
- andygcook 9y ago
  NanaGram, making all your dreams come true. Well, we can't make that grandkid dream come true... but we do what we can: https://imgur.com/a/TjOQc https://imgur.com/a/TjOQc P.S. We called my grandmother on my Mother's side Mimmie before she passed away years ago. Scratching my head why I missed that one and thank you for the reminder.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    Fantastic! The missus has also already started mailing the link out to all of her Grange Hall friends. The thinking is they'd buy subscriptions on behalf of their kids. She's remarkably interested in the product, if that is a signifier for you. We are old, in our fifties, and financially secure. The vast majority of our friends are in similar positions. I add this because it may help your marketing choices and, while anecdotal, she does seem intrigued and excited.
  - aacook 9y ago
    Oh dude, good thing Mom isn't on HN.

by aacook 9y ago

KGIII 9y ago

Bampa and Bumpa are sometimes used for grandfather. Meemaw and Mimmie for grandmother. I noticed your changing text of names. If you do international, the choices are huge. My kids haven't seemed to figure out how to make babies. I've even tried bribery, to no avail. So, I'll send your link to all my old people friends. They can then send the link to their children and guilt them into using your service. Maybe a HN launch would be good? Pardon me, if I missed it and you've already done it. Still, I'll forward it to the appropriate old folks for you. Good luck! It looks like a brilliant idea and the name is fantastic! Edit: Also, the price for 100 is really, really low. I don't know about the math, but that's impressive. If you're able to profit at that amount, great. However, I expect a much higher price for that number and, if actually wanted, would pay more - assuming the pics are on good quality stock and well done. I could also see some value added services. Touch ups, fancy text, maybe frames at holiday season, border themes, things like that. For fancy text you may need to license fonts, by the way. Edit again: A second opinion says your top two package prices are too low and she says the price 'makes her suspicious.' I asked why and she says it makes her think they are of poor quality. I asked her about pricing she said, "The first one is $0.79, so $0.69, $0.59, $0.49. Something like that." That's official Old Lady pricing suggestions. In other words, your highest package would be closer to $49.99 per month. I kind of agree with her - it would be more valuable than the price listed, of only I had a use. She also suggested marketing it to the grandparents. Here is her quote, "Just market it to the grandparents. They will pay to have their kids send them pictures. It would be even better if they could choose a big package and let all their children send in pictures using the same account." That's close to verbatim. The grandparents would have an account and their multiple kids could all send in pictures to the same account. Err... She also suggests $X.XX/picture after X-amount of pictures. LOL It probably would have saved time to just give her the keyboard. She's very optimistic about your service.

aacook 9y ago
Awesome feedback, thanks. HN launch could be fun. We haven't done that yet. Andy left this comment a couple hours ago on a whim and all of the sudden we're getting tons of crazy feedback! Right now we're just focused on trying to make the service solid for a handful of people. The feedback on pricing is helpful. I'd actually like to get the prices down to half of where they're at now. 6-month stretch goal :) Hadn't thought about the font customization over the images. Great idea. Thanks for sharing with your old folk friends. Best of luck with the creation of Grandchildren. I'm rooting for you.
- KGIII 9y ago
  LOL I just edited my post - again. She tossed a few ideas out. They actually seem like sound ideas, because she is brilliant and perfect in every way. I like both the ideas, you're obviously not obligated to like them.
andygcook 9y ago
NanaGram, making all your dreams come true. Well, we can't make that grandkid dream come true... but we do what we can: https://imgur.com/a/TjOQc https://imgur.com/a/TjOQc P.S. We called my grandmother on my Mother's side Mimmie before she passed away years ago. Scratching my head why I missed that one and thank you for the reminder.
- KGIII 9y ago
  Fantastic! The missus has also already started mailing the link out to all of her Grange Hall friends. The thinking is they'd buy subscriptions on behalf of their kids. She's remarkably interested in the product, if that is a signifier for you. We are old, in our fifties, and financially secure. The vast majority of our friends are in similar positions. I add this because it may help your marketing choices and, while anecdotal, she does seem intrigued and excited.
- aacook 9y ago
  Oh dude, good thing Mom isn't on HN.