Am I taking this too far? Idea/personal feedback

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper">What&#039;s up guys..<br /> So I had an idea.. in summary it&#039;s an online platform that helps grieving pet owners cope with the death of their pet through narrative therapy.<br /> <br /> It&#039;s similar to &quot;Storyworth&quot; (which was a success) but heavily focuses on the niche of grieving pet owners. The platform will ask questions that help people remember &amp; cherish their favourite moments with their pet. It also emphasises collaboration, bringing people together in times of grief.<br /> <br /> Upon completing your tailored questions, we will send you a keepsake book/journal with all your stories and photos of your pet.<br /> <br /> I&#039;ve sent out a lot of concept feedback questions, 11/16 said they would be interested. Everybody who wasn&#039;t interested ALWAYS said they knew somebody who might be. I know 16 responses isn&#039;t great, but it&#039;s hard to cold message people on Instagram/Discord without being blocked due to scam suspicions!<br /> <br /> My girlfriend is a computer science graduate and can code the website. The problem is, she has a lot of additional stress with having to find a job to get a work visa in our country.<br /> <br /> I&#039;m a pretty obsessive guy when it comes to projects &amp; she says she just wants it to be a fun, side project. I don&#039;t particularly think this way &amp; win or lose, I want to go full throttle. The thing is, I can&#039;t expect her to go full throttle. Although I have no issue grinding late at night, 5 coffees deep, I can&#039;t expect to her to do this. In saying that, her role is pretty crucial to the value we will give the customer &amp; she might take a LOT longer than needed in treating it as a side project. She wants it to be an enjoyable side project, but I told her I want to possibly scale this into a full on business.<br /> <br /> My question is basically, what does this concept sound like to you guys &amp; am I taking this business plan too seriously &amp; pushing my girlfriend out of it?<br /> <br /> Give it to me straight, I won&#039;t get my feelings hurt. I&#039;m here to develop &amp; improve, so have at it guys</div>

 

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[Two Dog]

<div class="bbWrapper">Pet idea good. Girlfriend idea bad. It sounds like an excellent way to end a relationship.<br /> <br /> Would it make any difference whether she was involved or not? Meaning you do your thing and she does hers after coding the site?</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 105350" data-quote="Two Dog" data-source="post: 1140061" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140061" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140061">Two Dog said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Pet idea good. Girlfriend idea bad. It sounds like an excellent way to end a relationship.<br /> <br /> Would it make any difference whether she was involved or not? Meaning you do your thing and she does hers after coding the site? </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Thanks for the response. I understand for sure it sounds like a bad idea for our relationship at face value.<br /> <br /> Once the system is made, 90% of the business can run as its own system (minus fixing technical bugs, marketing &amp; customer support).<br /> <br /> The heavy lifting is of course in the construction of such a system. I would love for her to learn and gain some experience coding the site, but I don&#039;t want it taking an absurd amount of time either.<br /> <br /> I think its a viable idea also, so I don&#039;t want to just abandon it or waste money paying somebody to do it faster. I&#039;m also unsure if I&#039;m perhaps taking this thing way too seriously considering we haven&#039;t made a sale yet.</div>

 

[PaulRyan17]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hey mate, I am a Software Engineer - what exactly is involved in building the website? I can advise you on whether someone without coding experience could possibly build it.</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 145934" data-quote="PaulRyan17" data-source="post: 1140122" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140122" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140122">PaulRyan17 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Hey mate, I am a Software Engineer - what exactly is involved in building the website? I can advise you on whether someone without coding experience could possibly build it. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Thanks for the reply Paul! <br /> <br /> We pretty much need a website with login credentials, once you buy the package, you will be granted access to your series of prompts based on the initial information you provided. <br /> <br /> The goal is for the prompts to be personalised to the information you gave. For example: instead of &quot;What was your Pet&#039;s birthday?&quot; It would use the name you provided to be personalised.<br /> <br /> We will then have to implement the book publisher&#039;s API to sort these responses into a printable PDF so the journal is neat and chronological. <br /> <br /> In my inexperience, I don&#039;t believe this is a massive undertaking, but I could be very wrong. Our plan in the future is to delegate improvements to others using some of the net profit.</div>

 

[RightyTighty]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 145823" data-quote="TheWiseGuy" data-source="post: 1140051" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140051" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140051">TheWiseGuy said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I&#039;ve sent out a lot of concept feedback questions, 11/16 said they would be interested. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>This data is worthless. The only meaningful data is that which is backed by the consumer having some skin in the game. A landing page, or flyer with QR code, to gather emails would require people to put more on the table than a passing opinion and would therefore be much more meaningful. You need better validation before more time and effort is invested. <br /> <br /> As you and your GF are not on the same page as far as entrepreneurship, you are going to find her mindset to be a continual boat anchor on your efforts. This situation is not likely to improve. Think about it.</div>

 

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[PaulRyan17]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 145823" data-quote="TheWiseGuy" data-source="post: 1140125" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140125" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140125">TheWiseGuy said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Thanks for the reply Paul!<br /> <br /> We pretty much need a website with login credentials, once you buy the package, you will be granted access to your series of prompts based on the initial information you provided.<br /> <br /> The goal is for the prompts to be personalised to the information you gave. For example: instead of &quot;What was your Pet&#039;s birthday?&quot; It would use the name you provided to be personalised.<br /> <br /> We will then have to implement the book publisher&#039;s API to sort these responses into a printable PDF so the journal is neat and chronological.<br /> <br /> In my inexperience, I don&#039;t believe this is a massive undertaking, but I could be very wrong. Our plan in the future is to delegate improvements to others using some of the net profit. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>So I know from a non developer perspective this might seem straightforward but things like user authentication, handling payments, setting up a database, setting up an API, setting up deployments, setting up security - on top of this you need to pick a framework - learn the framework - handle debugging - concurrency - mobile responsiveness... <br /> <br /> For a developer, it is definitely not a massive undertaking but for someone who hasn&#039;t coded before it would take a massive length of time and the end result probably would be less than stellar.<br /> <br /> In saying this though, there are lots of people who use nocode tools with great success such as `bubble.io` and I think this would get you to market much faster. <br /> <br /> I wouldn&#039;t go near handcoding something like this unless I was a developer, it would be like building your own house with no DIY experience - sure you may get there in the end but the journey will be rough and the result might even be worse.<br /> <br /> So your options basically are:<br /> - work with your girlfriend (but by the sounds of things this may not be ideal)<br /> - try to code it yourself (you&#039;ll learn how to code which is great but if you&#039;re not interested in coding &amp; more interested in building a product then this is a long road)<br /> - use a low/nocode tool - this is what I would recommend, there are even plenty of devs out there that use nocode tools which how fast they are<br /> <br /> It sounds like to me your goal here is to get this product out, so I would focus on that. <br /> <br /> Hope the above helps.</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 126086" data-quote="RightyTighty" data-source="post: 1140128" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140128" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140128">RightyTighty said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> This data is worthless. The only meaningful data is that which is backed by the consumer having some skin in the game. A landing page, or flyer with QR code, to gather emails would require people to put more on the table than a passing opinion and would therefore be much more meaningful. You need better validation before more time and effort is invested.<br /> <br /> As you and your GF are not on the same page as far as entrepreneurship, you are going to find her mindset to be a continual boat anchor on your efforts. This situation is not likely to improve. Think about it. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>I agree. A landing page is the next step, which of course would need some coding. You&#039;re right with this &amp; this will be the next step I&#039;m going to take. <br /> <br /> As far as my girlfriend, I believe she is interested but like most people- it&#039;s hard to put full effort into something that isn&#039;t guaranteed to be fruitful. <br /> <br /> She studies a TON for college &amp; job interviews because the outcome is highly in her favour. I just don&#039;t want to overload her and make her lose interest in the project. I fully expect this to be a challenging road, something that isn&#039;t always fun &amp; something that may fail &amp; provide us with wisdom instead of profit.</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 145934" data-quote="PaulRyan17" data-source="post: 1140129" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140129" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140129">PaulRyan17 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> So I know from a non developer perspective this might seem straightforward but things like user authentication, handling payments, setting up a database, setting up an API, setting up deployments, setting up security - on top of this you need to pick a framework - learn the framework - handle debugging - concurrency - mobile responsiveness...<br /> <br /> For a developer, it is definitely not a massive undertaking but for someone who hasn&#039;t coded before it would take a massive length of time and the end result probably would be less than stellar.<br /> <br /> In saying this though, there are lots of people who use nocode tools with great success such as `bubble.io` and I think this would get you to market much faster. <br /> <br /> I wouldn&#039;t go near handcoding something like this unless I was a developer, it would be like building your own house with no DIY experience - sure you may get there in the end but the journey will be rough and the result might even be worse.<br /> <br /> So your options basically are:<br /> - work with your girlfriend (but by the sounds of things this may not be ideal)<br /> - try to code it yourself (you&#039;ll learn how to code which is great but if you&#039;re not interested in coding &amp; more interested in building a product then this is a long road)<br /> - use a low/nocode tool - this is what I would recommend, there are even plenty of devs out there that use nocode tools which how fast they are<br /> <br /> It sounds like to me your goal here is to get this product out, so I would focus on that.<br /> <br /> Hope the above helps. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Thank you so much for the informative response &amp; giving me some actionable advice in terms of building the site. I&#039;m going to start looking into the no code tools as a potential back-up.</div>

 

[Bounce Back]

<div class="bbWrapper">Another software guy weighing in here. I don&#039;t even think this needs all the web app stuff to work for a long while into validation. This quite literally could be a simple wordpress site (you could figure out buying/installing a theme in 1 week as a non-dev) with some off the shelf shopping cart plugin like woocommerce (or instead of Wordpress&amp;Woocommerce just do shopify and be done even sooner). Then email them a link to a google form when they pay manually. When they submit you modify some Google/Word doc and print as PDF and send to shipper.<br /> <br /> So what it isn&#039;t super streamlined but deal with that when you have so many customers even hiring virtual assistant can&#039;t do the manual steps. In my opinion this is cart before the horse type talk.</div>

 

[PaulRyan17]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 135951" data-quote="Bounce Back" data-source="post: 1140143" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140143" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140143">Bounce Back said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Another software guy weighing in here. I don&#039;t even think this needs all the web app stuff to work for a long while into validation. This quite literally could be a simple wordpress site (you could figure out buying/installing a theme in 1 week as a non-dev) with some off the shelf shopping cart plugin like woocommerce (or instead of Wordpress&amp;Woocommerce just do shopify and be done even sooner). Then email them a link to a google form when they pay manually. When they submit you modify some Google/Word doc and print as PDF and send to shipper.<br /> <br /> So what it isn&#039;t super streamlined but deal with that when you have so many customers even hiring virtual assistant can&#039;t do the manual steps. In my opinion this is cart before the horse type talk. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Good solution too !</div>

 

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[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 135951" data-quote="Bounce Back" data-source="post: 1140143" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140143" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140143">Bounce Back said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Another software guy weighing in here. I don&#039;t even think this needs all the web app stuff to work for a long while into validation. This quite literally could be a simple wordpress site (you could figure out buying/installing a theme in 1 week as a non-dev) with some off the shelf shopping cart plugin like woocommerce (or instead of Wordpress&amp;Woocommerce just do shopify and be done even sooner). Then email them a link to a google form when they pay manually. When they submit you modify some Google/Word doc and print as PDF and send to shipper.<br /> <br /> So what it isn&#039;t super streamlined but deal with that when you have so many customers even hiring virtual assistant can&#039;t do the manual steps. In my opinion this is cart before the horse type talk. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Thanks for the tips man, this sounds like a time effective way to test the system out with our target audience. I&#039;ll show this to my girl also !</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper">Bumping this to hopefully hear some more insights and perspectives!</div>

 

[Devilery]

<div class="bbWrapper">Everyone is talking about the complexity, but let me ask you about profitability (unless you&#039;re building a non-profit).<br /> <br /> How much will you charge per customer/journal?<br /> <br /> Is that an amount people are actually willing to pay?<br /> <br /> What&#039;s your cost per journal?<br /> <br /> How much is left for advertising?<br /> <br /> E.g. random numbers, but let&#039;s say you want to charge $40. So, build a simple landing page that sells it for $40, but without the tech behind it. Just get people to click to validate your product. <br /> <br /> Once done, lay out the tech setup and all costs involved (ChatGPT can probably do it for you).<br /> <br /> Let&#039;s say it costs $10 per journal, which is a bit high as I&#039;m sure some human touch will still be necessary as the outputs will be mediocre at first. You&#039;re left with $30.<br /> <br /> To make $10 in profit, you have to get a sale for $20. Doable? I think not, but prove me wrong.<br /> <br /> Stop bothering your girlfriend with random ideas, you can build a landing page and run ads to it yourself. If you can&#039;t get 50 people to click on the buy/inquire/signup button, do NOT move forward.</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 64688" data-quote="Devilery" data-source="post: 1140400" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140400" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140400">Devilery said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Everyone is talking about the complexity, but let me ask you about profitability (unless you&#039;re building a non-profit).<br /> <br /> How much will you charge per customer/journal?<br /> <br /> Is that an amount people are actually willing to pay?<br /> <br /> What&#039;s your cost per journal?<br /> <br /> How much is left for advertising?<br /> <br /> E.g. random numbers, but let&#039;s say you want to charge $40. So, build a simple landing page that sells it for $40, but without the tech behind it. Just get people to click to validate your product.<br /> <br /> Once done, lay out the tech setup and all costs involved (ChatGPT can probably do it for you).<br /> <br /> Let&#039;s say it costs $10 per journal, which is a bit high as I&#039;m sure some human touch will still be necessary as the outputs will be mediocre at first. You&#039;re left with $30.<br /> <br /> To make $10 in profit, you have to get a sale for $20. Doable? I think not, but prove me wrong.<br /> <br /> Stop bothering your girlfriend with random ideas, you can build a landing page and run ads to it yourself. If you can&#039;t get 50 people to click on the buy/inquire/signup button, do NOT move forward. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>So I had a good look at similar products. Storyworth does this model for humans but prices it at $99 for 1 year. I know my plan is very niche heavy, but the pet loss market is steadily growing as per data. <br /> <br /> Judging from the publisher, if I price my service at $40 bucks, I can make a $20 profit from sales (estimated). <br /> <br /> As far as people who are willing to pay for this, the answer lays in the execution. It&#039;s pinnacle that: <br /> <br /> 1) The online tool that asks you the prompts is built well. It must be warming &amp; use personalised prompts, with therapeutic sections between emotional chapters. <br /> <br /> 2) The journal must be of high quality. I&#039;m in the process of ordering a test copy. <br /> <br /> It&#039;s hard to create a shoddy MVP without these two value skews, BUT when I receive my prototype journal, I can make some marketing material to test customer interest. <br /> <br /> The USP is mainly that it leverages narrative therapy &amp; provides you with a personalised, keepsake journal to never forget your best memories with your pet. The main target audience would be mainly females, between 30-65 as per my feedback. <br /> <br /> Because people can just buy an empty journal with prompts on Amazon, the value of the online tool needs to act almost like a virtual therapist.<br /> <br /> The end goal is to have this business ALMOST automated, minus customer service &amp; technical bug fixes. <br /> <br /> So by your advice, I surmise that I should order a prototype journal (after I answered prompts using my childhood dog) &amp; market it. I&#039;ll guage customer interest to actually spend money &amp; go from there. <br /> <br /> Thank you for your thought-out response also. I really appreciate it.</div>

 

[amp0193]

<div class="bbWrapper">Best idea I’ve seen on the forum in a long time. (Assuming it’s an original idea, and there aren’t already a lot of other companies doing this).<br /> <br /> Stop talking about it and get to work.<br /> <br /> You don’t need a developer, just get a Shopify site set up, pick a theme, and pick a custom form app.<br /> <br /> The bigger challenge is on the ops and production side. Who’s producing the books, what’s the cost, how to fulfill, how to acquire customers, etc.<br /> <br /> <blockquote data-attributes="" data-quote="" data-source="" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I&#039;ll guage customer interest to actually spend money &amp; go from there. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> If your execution is there, and the book is well done, the interest will be there. And they will spend good money on it (assuming there aren’t a bunch of other competing options).<br /> <br /> The only way this doesn’t work is if you output a poor quality product.</div>

 

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[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 16059" data-quote="amp0193" data-source="post: 1140419" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140419" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140419">amp0193 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Best idea I’ve seen on the forum in a long time. (Assuming it’s an original idea, and there aren’t already a lot of other companies doing this).<br /> <br /> Stop talking about it and get to work.<br /> <br /> You don’t need a developer, just get a Shopify site set up, pick a theme, and pick a custom form app.<br /> <br /> The bigger challenge is on the ops and production side. Who’s producing the books, what’s the cost, how to fulfill, how to acquire customers, etc.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> If your execution is there, and the book is well done, the interest will be there. And they will spend good money on it (assuming there aren’t a bunch of other competing options).<br /> <br /> The only way this doesn’t work is if you output a poor quality product. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Thanks for the encouragement Amp! The model has been done before, but it has never been implemented into the grieving pet niche. I liked the concept of Storyworth &amp; added value by targeting a different audience with some tweaks. I have a lot of value skews that I can implement into this system, but I won&#039;t bore you with needless details.<br /> <br /> The only competitor is mainly self-help books for dealing with pet loss &amp; empty journals with prompts. My online tool that guides you through the prompts must be therapeutic &amp; engaging to combat this. Of course, the journal must also be of high quality. <br /> <br /> I understand, all of the above is USELESS without execution. I was frustrated whilst designing the journal &amp; thought perhaps this idea was a waste of time. I&#039;m a new entrepreneur, so I&#039;m dealing with the mental hurdles &amp; I can remember how much time I threw in the trash on my last project.</div>

 

[amp0193]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 145823" data-quote="TheWiseGuy" data-source="post: 1140420" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140420" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140420">TheWiseGuy said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> My online tool that guides you through the prompts must be therapeutic &amp; engaging to combat this. Of course, the journal must also be of high quality. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Don&#039;t compare what you&#039;re trying to build too much to Storyworth.<br /> <br /> They&#039;ve been around for years, and it took a long time to build what they have.<br /> <br /> Start with something simple, that you can actually achieve in the next year, and then you can build out additional features and functionality over time.</div>

 

[TheWiseGuy]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 16059" data-quote="amp0193" data-source="post: 1140432" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1140432" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1140432">amp0193 said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Don&#039;t compare what you&#039;re trying to build too much to Storyworth.<br /> <br /> They&#039;ve been around for years, and it took a long time to build what they have.<br /> <br /> Start with something simple, that you can actually achieve in the next year, and then you can build out additional features and functionality over time. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Yeah, it takes time to get to this status. I don&#039;t want to look too far ahead, but it&#039;s good to see that similar models have scaled so much that they ended in a liquidation event. <br /> <br /> I have started work on designing the journal whilst my girlfriend throws together a landing page. Once I get my test copy, I can take some fancy pictures for marketing. <br /> <br /> I need to take it one step at a time. My first goal is to actually create this system &amp; get one sale.</div>