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TL;DR : Listen to what you want to read

Chrome Extension URL : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/running-commentary/hlkolgejaenicoeckonajgnajfmafodp

Developer Story: Often, especially in the office hours, the tab switch on the browser is inevitable when you want to follow a live feed or a sports text commentary. This browser extension will read the live feed for you so that you continue the work. By reading out every new feed on your favorite websites, let the "scores-follow-you" instead of "you-following-scores". You can even listen to the part of a blog or full blog (a static content) by selecting the portion of the web element you are interested to read.

Motivation: Listen to a live text feed (commentary, chat) from your favorite website instead of reading.

P.S: I accidentally submitted the test version (to share with beta users) for review and hence some Grammar mistakes, please ignore. The newer version is under review.

We are https://extracttable.com - an API service to extract tabular data from images and PDFs. Recently we tested an approach to speed up the current process, amazingly, it is cutting our operational cost to 40%.

Considering 17% of current users have re-purchased the credits and the other 83% users who are yet to completely utilize credits of their first purchase - Should we consider to revise our price (slash by 30-35%) to the user, which is already 4-20x cheaper than our competitors. Can it help to attract more customers? or give a negative affect?

It's the 3rd month of https://extracttable.com released to the internet. While it attracted a couple of bulk purchases and 30+ small packs, but I'm seeing the rise in visitors abusing the service it in 2 ways

  no signup needed to try the demo - visitors are trying on more than 12+ files per session

  no credit card details requested for free API credits - multiple email accounts are being used

Do you have recommendations on the services or plugins I should opt to reduce my cost here

One of the potential client reached me to inform they want to buy credits but the PayPal (my current PG) is unavailable in their country, Pakistan.

Wonder, how other businesses registered in India or US are accepting the payments.

I was recently approached by a data selling company with Data Guarantee Terms:

  85%+ Email Deliverability

  Hard bounces of more than 15% will be replaced with new contacts.

  Not a single duplicate contact.

  Each contact will come with permission based GDPR and CAN SPAM act,

  Contacts will be for your unlimited usage.

A couple of months back, I launched extracttable.com with a post on Hacker News, a week later on Reddit and answered under 10 questions on Quora. My usual nonpaying user traffic comes from Quora and "direct" (as what shown on Google Analytics), the paid clients were from Quora and HN. Looking into the client base, as expected, 80% of them are combined from Data Engineers/Analysts/Scientists and Python developers. So, I was tempted and responded to them to check the last 3 years PyCon conference users filtered by targetted Job titles. While the price they quoted was ranging between 5-10 cents for the 60K user list, I'm just wondering to see if anyone were successful in this approach.

Early revenues and improving traction

Firstly, I want to thank HN platform and upvoted users(1 from my fake account) on couple of my posts.

It's the 45th day since I launched (with a post on 08/26/19) https://extracttable.com service, and I just achieved all the milestones (may be small to you - but I wanted to stay motivated, as this is the 5th service I released in the past 4 years (minus 1.5 years of M.S)).

  - 1K web visits = today (45d)
  - 50 Developer Sign-ups =  9/27 (32d)
  - 2K API hits - 9/13 (18d)
  - 1 Paid client - 9/8 (13d)

Now, I'm here to ask for opinions on - What should I be cautioned more about at this point of time.

Couple of Things I already FEEL are

  1. Payment Gateway Integration - All 21 payments, till date, were through manually generated PayPal invoices
  2. User Registration - Increased free trail signup abuses because of there is no check if already registered

I run https://extracttable.com for which I charge 0.0145$/credit. The motivation behind is making it easier to extract tabular data from images, AND not needing to pay for what you do not use.

I want my users to buy credits as little as possible AND service usage charged per transaction(1 transaction @ 0.0145$ != 14.5$ of 1000 transactions). Currently, I'm asking my users to buy a minimum of 100 credits (https://extracttable.com/#pricing) costs 1.45$ - after PG(PayPal) processing I receive a mere 62% of what user paid.

Do I have any recommendations from the community on improving the situation matching my with requirements.

TIA