Why not try sell Pocket instead of shutting it down? Seems like such a waste
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dc_rog commented on Show HN: Myphotos.site – Make a gallery website from Google Photos myphotos.site... · Posted by u/gabigrin
Super cool.
Typo here “Show your art, keep friends up-to-date or share family photos with lode ones.”
Funny because I often read “open to work” as “desperate”. Would love to know the success rate of quietly looking vs “open to work” and who gets hired more.
dc_rog commented on Show HN: I built a chatbot to converse with 3M SaaS product reviews reviewradar.ai/... · Posted by u/andreict
dc_rog commented on Ask HN: How Can I Quickly Launch My Web Product and Attract Target Users? · Posted by u/PeterHuber
But where can I get the initial traffic? I don't even have any early users right now.
Start telling your story about why you built it in the first place. Tell it on any community that you think people who are in a similar need will be. Get narrow, try a few small niches. Stick with it for a month and then see who is following along. That is your audience. Start to tease out features based on outcomes that those people will achieve once they are helped by your product. Let your audience tell you what they want.
Paid ads, etc, will very likely not yield good results at this early stage because you don’t know your ideal customer profile well enough and no one knows you or your product well enough to trust you. This will build over time.
dc_rog commented on Ask HN: Why does ko-fi connect to stripe when stripe doesn't allow crowdfunding? · Posted by u/alexflint
Crowdfunding and donations are very high risk for fraud and money laundering activities. These approved platforms likely do some type of risk mitigation that Stripe is comfortable with when processing the transactions and take on some of the fraud and chargeback risk.
*Not affiliated with any so this is an educated guess.
dc_rog commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker wealthfolio.app... · Posted by u/a-fadil
A helpful thread from hn the other day on how auth tokens work and how companies like Plaid don’t actually store your credentials (like how mint did back in the day)
dc_rog commented on Ask HN: Can individual setup payment gateway like stripe easily? · Posted by u/sawirricardo
Probably depends mostly on the payout country (where you are located) that will drive KYC requirements from the processor (stripe, etc), where people are paying you from (currency acceptance), and a little bit on what you are selling (e.g. subscriptions need a little more infrastructure).
“Non-US” could be any of 190+ other countries. Where specifically?
dc_rog commented on Ask HN: What does the website builder market look like? · Posted by u/talksnocode
I believe there will continue to be a market for people building websites. Storefronts, landing pages, personal pages, blogs. I don’t see these going away.
The feedback I keep seeing on hn and elsewhere is a mix of ease/ownership/flexibility but still abstraction of coding and hosting that most people might not want to do. It’s a super broad space and lots of people want different things in a solution.
Advice: go after a narrow niche since the space is crowded, competitive, and arguably commoditized.
Here’s an example I saw launch recently and thought “that’s an interesting niche” https://sprout.site/en/ (No affiliation)
dc_rog commented on Ask HN: What is a simple CMS for personal blog / static website · Posted by u/albert_e
Heres the best thing I have found: https://pagescms.org/
Solid project that leverages Github as a CMS.
Can't wait to try this. One workflow I've started using is drafting/formatting in notion and then exporting to markdown. But having the visual editor of Github would reduce the steps.