Do this enough and you realize you have to filter through a lot of slop. slop. slop.
I created willpayforthis.com to accumulate high signal, high quality posts and save you some time.
I love thoughts from the community on how I can make it better, save you time, and help you work on the best ideas.
They're saying this on twitter for likes. It's different from what they or the org they work for actually thinks.
you're better off asking yourself, "would I pay for this" and being brutally honest.
Pro tip: just go find the potential customers.
I would go a step further. People kid themselves all the time. Even being brutally honest, I might say I would pay for something and bail at the last step, changing my mind. It's kinda like if you write a book and ask your friend to read it and they say "sure, I will!" and they never do.
It needs to be "take my money now" energy.
Jobs wasn't too far off when he said:
Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
Jobs was talking about how people don't know what they want until you show them. He was fighting in reaction to the idea that what people say they want will guide you in the right direction.
The value to society of many tech-based businesses lately is appalling. They feel more interested in grabbing your wallet first than in creating any actual value.
A natural consequence of the currently low barrier for developers to ship a whole product indie, is that you’ll see more low value projects online. I can understand how that’s annoying.
But when one strikes gold and creates real value, I think it’s pretty cool how it’s ran by an individual who truly cares and understands the target user and problem.
I prefer that to an over funded VC project that gets dissolved, or a Google project that gets EOL from layoffs.
Have you reconsidered creating an actual demo?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42671589 (it was flagged)
I don't know what causes flags. I've submitted again because the previous time didn't get much attention.
That's why I love the AWS Marketplace: it can often hide "quality of life" services in the AWS bill, which almost never gets the same level of pushback as does "please, sire, may I have $10/mo?"
When that happens, I'll re-consider signing up for it. At the moment, I can't justify $30 for access to what could be, admittedly, a lot of pie in the sky.
Fix that. And when it's enabled all the twitter links are broken anyway. Find a way to show something useful on that landing page without downloading 100 MB of JS files first.
Last but not least, users may not be the best clients for you as they always need random impossible things, and they may not be prepared to pay for all the crap they are asking on twitter. I guess that most of the time it's joking or venting.
I was actually AB testing the $20/month but people didn't like it so I switched back to $30 lifetime order.
I'd love any other feedback or input you have.
https://x.com/search?q=%22I%27d%20pay%20for%22&src=typed_que...
and I don't mind looking thru them all for free.
There is also:
$30 is like two chipotle burritos these days.
To each their own
I would pay a LOT for whoever reactivates my collection of RIM BlackBerries.
Once put in front of a paywall, a whole bunch of doubts can pop up out of nowhere and for no particular reason. Maybe the user just doesn't trust the app sufficiently to give money. Insufficient brand recognition to cross the threshold to actually pay.
