(First of all, let me state that I have no intention of trying to sell or advertise or even get traffic here.)
Hello guys, I'm a newbie in this forum, let me introduce myself.
I'm Joe, 30 years old. I've been a designer for 8 years, mainly in web design and application design. I read The Millionaire Fastlane last year, although I always had an idea to start my own business (before that I always wanted to build a design agency), this book helped me make up my mind and helped me find the right path.
So I started building my Saas, a podcast transcription web app. Simply put, podcasters can upload episodes, and then the app recognizes them as text by the AI. It took me about 3 months to release the first version on 1st Feb(not MVP, because my perfectionism kicked in and I always wanted to do more).
In terms of users, there are 98 users in total, and 11 paid users so far, which looks pretty good, right? However, most of these users were acquired within 30 days of going live. This means that I hardly got any new users for the whole month of March. This is one of the things that made me painful.
I tried a lot of outreach, over a thousand emails and DMs, but sadly, the conversions were 0.
I have SEO'd the site and blogged about it, and it hasn't taken off yet (I'm not expecting SEO to bring me consistent traffic immediately, after all, it takes at least six months).
Is there any effective channel to get users steadily or not? Am I being too greedy? But it's really frustrating to watch my efforts turn into nothing. If you were me, what would you choose to grow?
Damn, it really feels better to get it all out, I've been in a state of depression for the last week.
A little context updated: it's true that there are some big fish in the pond of podcast transcription, like Rev, Happy Scribe, etc. But Poddin's experience is the better one, especially for audio accuracy is much higher, and my price is much, much cheaper than theirs, at least 5 times cheaper, ahhhhh
Hello guys, I'm a newbie in this forum, let me introduce myself.
I'm Joe, 30 years old. I've been a designer for 8 years, mainly in web design and application design. I read The Millionaire Fastlane last year, although I always had an idea to start my own business (before that I always wanted to build a design agency), this book helped me make up my mind and helped me find the right path.
So I started building my Saas, a podcast transcription web app. Simply put, podcasters can upload episodes, and then the app recognizes them as text by the AI. It took me about 3 months to release the first version on 1st Feb(not MVP, because my perfectionism kicked in and I always wanted to do more).
In terms of users, there are 98 users in total, and 11 paid users so far, which looks pretty good, right? However, most of these users were acquired within 30 days of going live. This means that I hardly got any new users for the whole month of March. This is one of the things that made me painful.
I tried a lot of outreach, over a thousand emails and DMs, but sadly, the conversions were 0.
I have SEO'd the site and blogged about it, and it hasn't taken off yet (I'm not expecting SEO to bring me consistent traffic immediately, after all, it takes at least six months).
Is there any effective channel to get users steadily or not? Am I being too greedy? But it's really frustrating to watch my efforts turn into nothing. If you were me, what would you choose to grow?
Damn, it really feels better to get it all out, I've been in a state of depression for the last week.
A little context updated: it's true that there are some big fish in the pond of podcast transcription, like Rev, Happy Scribe, etc. But Poddin's experience is the better one, especially for audio accuracy is much higher, and my price is much, much cheaper than theirs, at least 5 times cheaper, ahhhhh
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