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Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions: A low effort improvement to
by Evan_Hellmuth 8y ago
Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions:
A low effort improvement to the landing page would be to move link to a sample from the bottom to the top. Make it the first thing a visitor sees. Let the product speak for itself.
You shoukd charge more too. $.50 on a for-life value add feels like you’re only capturing a teensy tiny fraction of the value you provide. You’ll probably have to deal with way fewer support requests too if you charged ~$5/article.
Think about it - someone could record the audio themselves which might take ~1 hour all-in? If their hourly rate is $60, your service is still providing ~$45 of value per use if you increase the price to $5. The customers you want won’t care about the increased price and it makes it more likely you can continue to support your users and grow the company far into the future.
Finally, a natural product expansion would be automated distribution to podcast platforms. IMO you should invest in building this out instead of supporting the audio embed. A new distribution channel is a lot more valuable for a blogger than a new feature on their existing channel (think about it: if you were a blogger would you rather embed a video to go along with each post or post an accompanying video to your YouTube channel and link to it/link back to the article from the video?).
Product braindump done. Again, awesome work on the product and good luck growing the business!
- edraferi 8y ago+1 Auto podcast distribution
- Evan_Hellmuth 8y agoNote: $45 of value bc it will still take ~10m/article (using friendly numbers for convenience) to convert the text to speech with this product then upload/embed the audio file.
- pergadad 8y agoPlease do remember global reach. That's quite an amount for someone in Bulgaria, the Philippines or most of Africa. Yes pricing for Americans/Western Europe is one good idea - but if it's still profitable why not do open up to a price range affordable to many?
- Evan_Hellmuth 8y agoThis is a great point that I hadn’t considered. If this is a concern, you can do variable pricing based on IP! Though I’d be willing to bet that at this time the creator is more interested in having a profitable business than serving every possible customer. That can come later when cash flow is stable and abundant.