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jessehorne commented on     · Posted by u/_hako
_hako · 6 months ago
hey, yes the landing page is vibe coded but the actual app is not. Point taken on clarity. Would change the copy to make things simple to understand. Since we're launching on August 15th, I wanted to build a list of committed early users who'll get first access to our initial version. That's where the $199 comes in. Once the app goes live, that payment automatically converts to app credits you can use, or if you're not satisfied with what we've built, we'll refund it completely. There's really no risk on your end.

The idea is to work with people who are genuinely interested rather than just casual browsers, so we can get meaningful feedback and make sure we're building something that actually solves real problems.

jessehorne · 6 months ago
Okay cool yeah. Just letting you know. I know building trust quickly is a challenge so figured I'd mention that. I'd change copy and probably add more context in general.

I could go on for hours about the $199 plan but tl;dr, I think it's a bad strategy here. As a potential user who could utilize this quite a bit, It was a turn off. Just letting you know. Probably be a good idea to switch that up. Paywalls "sound" great to you as a way to filter committed users, but to me, the potential user, it doesn't. I get where you're coming from, trust me. It's not the way imo. If it were me, I'd open this up to anyone and everyone when you launch with a free tier. Get users. Any and all of them as much as you can handle and have as much meaningful convo's with as many of them as possible. That $199 isn't going to get you "valuable" users. It's going to get you people that paid $199. I think there's a lot more value to make from this project than what you'll make from that paywall. ANYWAYS.

jessehorne commented on     · Posted by u/_hako
jessehorne · 6 months ago
The website looks AI generated, which I'm not necessarily complaining about but I am noticing patterns with using claude to do similar things. Just a heads up.

I think you could make it quite a bit clearer what this actually is. It feels like it took me too long to realize it's a prompt for asking questions about your ad data.

Also, this feels like a scam, because why would there be a line for me to skip and why does it cost me $199 to do that? Seems like a weird profit strategy.

jessehorne commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
jessehorne · 6 months ago
A LLM-usage observability/monitoring tool (submitted to YC F25) and random game projects. One game I'm building is a tiny IO game inspired by moomoo.io but on Luna (our moon). Once that's done I'm thinking of making something with trains.
jessehorne commented on WhoUsesGo.com – Open source list of companies that use Go   whousesgo.com/... · Posted by u/jessehorne
gnabgib · 2 years ago
This doesn't look like a valid Show HN Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

jessehorne · 2 years ago
Oof
jessehorne commented on Ask HN: As an interviewer what did a candidate do to stand out and get an offer?    · Posted by u/jessehorne
JojoFatsani · 2 years ago
Be a real human. No sucking up. Directly answer questions, stay on topic. Demonstrate perseverance.
jessehorne · 2 years ago
This sucks for me because sucking up is all I feel I can do to make people like me. :p

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