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Great work creating a vibrant community in just a short couple of years! This is certainly a space that's only going to grow and you have positioned yourself we

Great work creating a vibrant community in just a short couple of years! This is certainly a space that's only going to grow and you have positioned yourself well. As someone deeply interested/involved in the area, I have a few leading questions and a shameless plug: - From the description of your pivot, it seems that you plan for this to become a job board/professional profile/LinkedIn/Behance of AR. Did I understand that correctly? What do you consider to be the main source of revenue in that case? - Do you feel that the simplification of your stack from JS to PHP helped you be more agile for 2.0? This is a tangential question but the answer is likely an interesting one given the choices and current web dev trends. - Can you share some of your most successful SEO/Traffic tricks with the HN community? What worked the best? We love to hear a great creative/innovative bootstrap story. - Do you miss working in AR dev itself given your background in the space or do you feel the most value comes from empowering other creators in the AR community? - Shameless plug: https://pinealeye.co/adkitxr/ https://pinealeye.co/adkitxr/ We are working on 3D native ads for AR/MR/XR. Check us out, let me know what you think, and let me know if there is a potential/interest for a partnership. I see a big synergy between building a community of creators who want to get their creations known, and our technology.

dan_zaitsev 7y ago
Hey @dsukhin! Thank you so much for reading our story and checking Catchar! Sure, I would love to answer your questions.. 1) Regarding this point: From the description of your pivot….. Yeah, you understood this correctly but I feel that we need a half a year to bring this model. In terms of revenue, we are testing the different streams but I suppose the most profitable would be B2B (between brands and creators) /or/ a subscription-based model for creators and studios with PRO features. 2) Regarding this: Do you feel that the simplification of your stack from JS to PHP… I’m very happy that we switched tech stack. React and Angular are too much difficult for bootstrapping, MPVs and PoCs... Unless of course, you have 100500 ready to go components that you can adapt to your new project. Sure SPA is much better in terms of performance but honestly, we feel good right now. 3) Can you share some of your most successful SEO/Traffic tricks... Huh mate, SEO is tough in 2020 especially that Google changed 2 or 3 times their ranking system for the last 5 months. A couple weeks ago we lost -3 dA and this was very sad. I wouldn’t say I can recommend some hacks but you have to write tons of unique content posts and make guest blogging this is it. 4) Do you miss working in AR dev itself given... I have some ideas in terms of new AR apps however I feel that Catchar has right now more value for the AR/MR industry. I hope that shortly, Catchar will open lots of opportunities for AR/MR space and for their creators and help to scale these domains. 5) Shameless plug... Actually, I love your idea... Monetization of AR/MR apps is the pain in the a… #2 after promotion and user adoption. Sure, I would love to discuss some potential opportunities, feel free to ping me anytime. You can find my contacts on https://catchar.io/creator/dan-zaitsev https://catchar.io/creator/dan-zaitsev Best of luck to you! Dan

dan_zaitsev 7y ago

Hey @dsukhin! Thank you so much for reading our story and checking Catchar! Sure, I would love to answer your questions.. 1) Regarding this point: From the description of your pivot….. Yeah, you understood this correctly but I feel that we need a half a year to bring this model. In terms of revenue, we are testing the different streams but I suppose the most profitable would be B2B (between brands and creators) /or/ a subscription-based model for creators and studios with PRO features. 2) Regarding this: Do you feel that the simplification of your stack from JS to PHP… I’m very happy that we switched tech stack. React and Angular are too much difficult for bootstrapping, MPVs and PoCs... Unless of course, you have 100500 ready to go components that you can adapt to your new project. Sure SPA is much better in terms of performance but honestly, we feel good right now. 3) Can you share some of your most successful SEO/Traffic tricks... Huh mate, SEO is tough in 2020 especially that Google changed 2 or 3 times their ranking system for the last 5 months. A couple weeks ago we lost -3 dA and this was very sad. I wouldn’t say I can recommend some hacks but you have to write tons of unique content posts and make guest blogging this is it. 4) Do you miss working in AR dev itself given... I have some ideas in terms of new AR apps however I feel that Catchar has right now more value for the AR/MR industry. I hope that shortly, Catchar will open lots of opportunities for AR/MR space and for their creators and help to scale these domains. 5) Shameless plug... Actually, I love your idea... Monetization of AR/MR apps is the pain in the a… #2 after promotion and user adoption. Sure, I would love to discuss some potential opportunities, feel free to ping me anytime. You can find my contacts on https://catchar.io/creator/dan-zaitsev https://catchar.io/creator/dan-zaitsev Best of luck to you! Dan