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Over the course of more than a year, a friend and I have built https://fyyn.io https://fyyn.io. It's a multi-purpose video platform — for example, it's very ha
by ManuelKiessling 3y ago
Over the course of more than a year, a friend and I have built https://fyyn.io https://fyyn.io.
It's a multi-purpose video platform — for example, it's very handy if you want to quickly share a short video with your co-workers: you can record your screen and/or camera right in your browser or using a Browser Extension, which gives you a shareable link so you don't need to fiddle around with a video file.
It also has more sophisticated features, like translating a video into another language — not only from language A audio to language B subtitles, but from language A audio to language B audio.
We call this feature LingoSync, and it has its own landingpage at https://lingosync.ai/en https://lingosync.ai/en.
If you just want to see the audio translation feature in action, this video demonstrates it in 60 seconds: https://lingosync.ai/demovideo/product/fyyn.io-how-it-works.mp4 https://lingosync.ai/demovideo/product/fyyn.io-how-it-works.....
An overview of all our features is at https://app.fyyn.io/en/features https://app.fyyn.io/en/features.
LingoSync was the feature that really piqued some measurable interest, as we managed to collect more than 1,500 email addresses through its dedicated landing page.
We also have between 10 and 20 signups to Fyyn.io every day — but we have basically zero sales.
Users play around with the features, including LingoSync, but do not buy any additional translation minutes once the initial 5 minutes that you get for free are used up.
We offer users to buy additional translation minutes, with prices between $0.50 and $0.80 per minute, depending on how many minutes you buy.
We are also having a hard time getting in touch with signed up users and finding out what keeps them from buying.
The bottom line is: I think what we have here is the typical situation of a team that knows how to build working software, but doesn't have the chops to turn it into a business.
Which is why I would like to ask: Is anybody here interested in teaming up to complement our product-building skills with his or her marketing and sales skills? We are more than open to share the company with someone who can turn our story around.
I can be reached via manuel@kiessling.net.
- mattl 3y agoWhy is the video further down the page in German by default when I'm at "https://app.fyyn.io/en/welcome https://app.fyyn.io/en/welcome" The copy is all in English, the video is in German. Also changing the language is very clunky, the video shrinks and then resizes. Also, maybe don't use flags for language?
- ManuelKiessling 3y agoValid point that I will definitely look into, thanks for pointing it out. However, it didn't stop more than 1,000 users to sign up (including e-mail verification) — however, over the course of more than two months, only 1 of those signed up users has ever bought additional translation minutes. No question the whole pre-signup space can be improved — but as of now, it would only bring more users into the product who will then not buy.