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Recent Failure -- I'm not getting customers. I love reading online content. It is tough to read quality long-form content online. So, I built https://pipe

Recent Failure -- I'm not getting customers. I love reading online content. It is tough to read quality long-form content online. So, I built https://pipecontent.com https://pipecontent.com -- By Sharing your article collection(One-tab, Toby, Notion, Google-Docs, Twitter-Threads, Evernote, Dropbox, Website Link) -- Receive clutter free ready to print PDF OR A high quality printed magazine. Feedback appreciated.

tomwojcik 6y ago
Looks cool but it took 6.5 sec on my pc to load the entire website and even more on mobile. And I have a pretty decent connection. Maybe that's where you lose some audience?
- scanny 6y ago
  Same, I think it is just because of the 50 page PDF in display (though it does load asynchronously from the rest of the page).
throwaway3699 6y ago
I don't mind the idea, but I think there's wayyy to much friction in getting content from the internet to paper. There's just not much value proposition from re-printing the content I can read online, quicker than I can get it in a magazine form. The best use I can think for your service is for businesses who want to produce and send out magazines (maybe with content from their industry) in an automated way.
ttamslam 6y ago
I like this idea a lot! From poking around it seems like your execution on the pdf generation is high. My (possibly useless) .02 -- I would not pay for this as is. What I would pay for though is an API that reliably converts internet articles to markdown of the same quality your pdf generation seems to have. A couple years ago I poured 3 or 4 months into a site that let users select time-boxed streams of articles clustered by topic (i.e. "give me a 25 min list of content about Glacier National Park for my subway commute") By far the most challenging part of this project was formatting content in a readable way from various sources, which it seems like you have done VERY well here. Anyway, congrats on shipping something, regardless of customer base that's very impressive!
chad_strategic 6y ago
I like this idea because it's hard to read quality long form content online. (like you said). My side project in the past have always been good (sarcasm), but it's the marketing / advertising side that I always seem to fail at miserably. When that fails, then the project seems to dry up and I move on to the next half idea. I don't know exactly how to market something like this, but I like the idea if that matters. Maybe something in the way of talking to a marketing person to find new avenues to drive traffic? Your website loads fine in my mind, it might be slow but I didn't notice until someone said something. I was able to quickly see your value prop. Website speed can be fixed, the key is your product is interesting. Best of luck!

tomwojcik 6y ago

Looks cool but it took 6.5 sec on my pc to load the entire website and even more on mobile. And I have a pretty decent connection. Maybe that's where you lose some audience?

scanny 6y ago
Same, I think it is just because of the 50 page PDF in display (though it does load asynchronously from the rest of the page).

throwaway3699 6y ago

I don't mind the idea, but I think there's wayyy to much friction in getting content from the internet to paper. There's just not much value proposition from re-printing the content I can read online, quicker than I can get it in a magazine form. The best use I can think for your service is for businesses who want to produce and send out magazines (maybe with content from their industry) in an automated way.

ttamslam 6y ago

I like this idea a lot! From poking around it seems like your execution on the pdf generation is high. My (possibly useless) .02 -- I would not pay for this as is. What I would pay for though is an API that reliably converts internet articles to markdown of the same quality your pdf generation seems to have. A couple years ago I poured 3 or 4 months into a site that let users select time-boxed streams of articles clustered by topic (i.e. "give me a 25 min list of content about Glacier National Park for my subway commute") By far the most challenging part of this project was formatting content in a readable way from various sources, which it seems like you have done VERY well here. Anyway, congrats on shipping something, regardless of customer base that's very impressive!

chad_strategic 6y ago

I like this idea because it's hard to read quality long form content online. (like you said). My side project in the past have always been good (sarcasm), but it's the marketing / advertising side that I always seem to fail at miserably. When that fails, then the project seems to dry up and I move on to the next half idea. I don't know exactly how to market something like this, but I like the idea if that matters. Maybe something in the way of talking to a marketing person to find new avenues to drive traffic? Your website loads fine in my mind, it might be slow but I didn't notice until someone said something. I was able to quickly see your value prop. Website speed can be fixed, the key is your product is interesting. Best of luck!