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Ask HN: I build a web app to host several links with a description, but pricing

2 pointsby karanveer12 months ago
Greetings,<p>I build a project that hosts your internet links but with a description, so each link has its own description for better guiding my audience and I&#x27;ve got a decent initial response from it.<p>However, I also love the current pricing structure as is at the moment because first, its in favour of the people using it, and second, this is a project that just was meant to help anyone in their initial struggling phase and that&#x27;s why no enforced paywall.<p>The launch has gone good but from your experience, do you think this is a viable option of pricing?<p>What do you think?<p>-x-

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wadadadad12 months ago
I spent a couple of minutes looking over the link you provided. Here&#x27;s my honest feedback.<p>- I wasn&#x27;t able to immediately understand what the point of the application from your description (both here and on the site itself). If I can&#x27;t understand it immediately, it&#x27;s unlikely I&#x27;m going to use it. Eventually I was able to understand (as best I could, I&#x27;m still not sure) that it&#x27;s for sending other people a link to your profile, so you can show them a list of other websites related to you (with a description).<p>- The audience would have to be users with: more than one link they want to send (otherwise they would just communicate their own link directly); relatively low tech skills (or else they might just build their own website with similar functionality that they have complete control of); and people who feel a repository of links and descriptions to send to other people would be beneficial. This seems to me a very specific audience that I&#x27;m not sure is large enough to merit solving a problem for (if your goal is a sustainable company).<p>- I&#x27;m not sure of the cost-benefit of your application to the end users. I&#x27;m not the audience of your application, but this doesn&#x27;t strike me as something I would use if I was in your target audience.<p>- What&#x27;s your end goal? To make money, as you&#x27;re asking about pricing structures? Then it&#x27;s unlikely a dollar or a pay-what-you-can model is going to get you far. Users won&#x27;t directly financially benefit from your service, so I don&#x27;t see users thinking &quot;I should pay that application back for the benefit it provides&quot;.<p>- Personally, the website is visually unappealing, which detracts from my hypothetical willingness to use it. I don&#x27;t like the straight black background, and the content doesn&#x27;t flow well on my desktop browser.<p>I hope this was helpful to you.
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karanveer12 months ago
The Project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkspace.bio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkspace.bio</a><p>I dont think there&#x27;s a super huge market for this, but it came from personal need to have my links speak for me instead of me explaining everytime to click a particular link for this or that etc.