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Given the amount of customer service per user, feature support, technical support and dev-ops that will be required to run this, I doubt there is any way this b
by peter422 3y ago
Given the amount of customer service per user, feature support, technical support and dev-ops that will be required to run this, I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user. Not to mention how you’d actually need to grow via marketing.
If I were you I would stop on this idea immediately and come up with somewhere where the average user would expect to pay $50-$1000 per month for the service. I don’t think this is a good vertical to get into. Your competition are both better than you at the bottom of the market (free alternatives) and the top of the market and there is very little left for you. And even if you do get tens or hundreds of users, it will be just as unsustainable and you’ll also have the guilt when you decide to shut it down and kick all your users off.
- KomoD 3y ago> I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user And especially considering he runs 4 other services
- isandeep1995 3y agoYeah I am doing fine.
- morkalork 3y agoAgreed. Your main product is treated as the compliment by companies like domain registrars. They make it easy and nearly free just to sell more domains.
- isandeep1995 3y agoCarrd is doing fine at $19/year pricing. I am trying to play the same game here.
- madeofpalk 3y ago"link in bio" is pretty different from "wordpress & ghost alternative".
- peter422 3y agoThe fact that any business is sustainable at this price point is not a relevant point, it might have been a bad choice for them too. What you are offering is also a lot more complicated. Not to mention it’s in the vertical of blogging which has been around for 20 years, in which your offering is very similar to every other alternative, and there are many well known free alternatives. If you have the technical skill to make a service this complicated, make something that people value more than $2 a month, and make something that hasn’t been made 100 times before. Execution is more important than idea only if the idea isn’t terrible.