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Ask HN: I'm trying to build a $1 project

1 pointsby karanveerabout 1 year ago
The basic idea is: if you&#x27;re a struggling content creator&#x2F;home business owner&#x2F;digital shop owner, my project lets u host your multiple links in one place..<p>Q. Is this unique? R. No.<p>Q. So what&#x27;s your project USP gonna be? - $1&#x2F;Free (Pay What You Can model) - No Ads. No Tracks. - Host every link of yours in one place. CRUCIAL - Most important of all, I dont want to inject any google analytics to people&#x27;s profiles, or any analytics for that matter coz yk data selling etc, so, No injected Analytics SDKs<p>Q. Whose your target audience? R. Any struggling content creator or artist or a small business shop. Yo buddy, I got you.<p>What&#x27;s the closest competitor you have? Linktree is what comes to my mind, but I want to be on a very small scale because the business model doesnt allow to scale, so like a project around me and my digital&#x2F;online friends.<p>Q. Why should I ever consider your over others? This is a project that was incepted keeping in mind to help atleast 100 people in matter of a year, but also i intend to generate and compete with huge companies, if that ever happen.<p>I am certain the project will die out sooner, but I still want to offer this service maybe help a person out or 2.<p>So, I want to do that while helping struggling people so I have NOT ENFORCED any payments to use this system, if you do good and can afford $1 for a month, you get 24*7 of my service for that price.<p>Q. Who is this NOT for? R. If you however have a following of greater than 100k, i would not recommend you chose to use something else coz this is only for small creators and upcoming small shops that cant do much digitally.<p>Q. How does it look like? R. A list of links, with your unique shop name or handle, that you can simply share with others.<p>Q. Is this going to be succesfull? R. IDK, you tell me..<p>--- Will launch within a few months. Soft launch will be sooner with 100 users (i like calling &#x27;people&#x27; instead of &#x27;users&#x27; of my project)<p>Goals with this project. 100 happy people.<p>I have a discord too set up for people, so if you&#x27;re interested in being first 100 even before the launch, please lmk.

3 comments

pavel_lishinabout 1 year ago
This does indeed sound like Linktree, but with the explicit caveat that it probably won&#x27;t last the year.<p>With that warning in place, not only would I not pay a dollar, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d even invest my time.
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karanveerabout 1 year ago
Correction: I would* recommend you chose to use something else.
xspiralabout 1 year ago
Love the spirit of this project! Helping small creators and businesses without ads or tracking is a win. Plus, $1&#x2F;month is a steal. Linktree better watch out! Sign me up for the Discord – excited to see where this goes!
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