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Ask HN: Would you buy Pricemoji, my side project? Why? Why not?

1 pointsby wilhempujarover 7 years ago

2 comments

personambover 7 years ago
Hi Wilhem!<p>I&#x27;m no VC, but I have made a few investments in companies, independently. I&#x27;ll give you my immediate impressions.<p>It&#x27;s a very cute project! Nice animations.<p>How does it work? My understanding is that you have a pricing table somewhere you say a banana is worth $1, a taco is worth $10, etc. When you press the button, it converts a dollar amount into some number of those goods.<p>Comparing costs to real-world things is a commonly-used strategy, e.g. &quot;For less than the cost of a coffee a day, you could ____!&quot;, so that&#x27;s interesting.<p>It seems like overkill for an API; seems like you could just build it into your marketing copy (and not rely on just emoji, which render inconsistently).<p>&#x27;My assumption is that conversion will definitely be higher by using visual representation of price tags. Especially against &quot;spatial learners&quot;.&#x27;<p>Sure, but that&#x27;s easy for anybody to test, in-house.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem like enough value-add to use as a stand-alone business; if somebody else were to want to use it, they&#x27;d have to not just pay the service, but also the cost of maintaining a sales relationship, contract, etc.
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wilhempujarover 7 years ago
Hi guys,<p>I sell it to focus on my startup. Pricemoji is an API for pricing products in emoji. I had this idea one night to build an emoji-driven transaction marketing platform, and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pricemoji.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pricemoji.com</a> is the beginning of just that.<p>It&#x27;s been feature on Product Hunt last November <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pricemoji" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pricemoji</a> and even commented by a Financial Times correspondent at some point (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hannahkuchler&#x2F;status&#x2F;803348128174899200" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hannahkuchler&#x2F;status&#x2F;803348128174899200</a>)<p>Would you buy it? How much would you price it? Any advice on how to properly pass the torch to someone willing to make it successful?<p>Thanks all, Cheers