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I can't speak for anyone else, but as a 26 year old male I would not pay. I would probably sign up for free though, and then you'd have my email.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Kylie Jenner is not solving a problem. Neither is Angry Birds.I don't know if it is necessarily solving a problem
No chance people will pay for this
So middle aged businessmen will not pay for this? They wouldn't buy Crazy Frog ringtones or Beanie babies either, but some people did.Would not pay (42 year old male here)
I think you mean you say they're doable in a short attention span due to Programmers Optimistic Inflated Ideas Of Their Abilities Bias™ which results in the use of the word "just" a lot, followed by I'm Currently "Debugging" X™, and "it's more difficult than we thought" and "we didn't know it had to do X" and so onfrom a programmer perspective i know all these things are very doable within a short time span
I think you mean you say they're doable in a short attention span due to Programmers Optimistic Inflated Ideas Of Their Abilities Bias™ which results in the use of the word "just" a lot, followed by I'm Currently "Debugging" X™, and "it's more difficult than we thought" and "we didn't know it had to do X" and so on
Simple rule for working with programmers: ask them how long it will take, and then double it by every decade under 40s they're in.
The initial feedback that you have received isn't very encouraging from the forum but then the majority of these people don't believe in consuming non essential items or at least they shouldn't if they have read the books. If you are able to launch the service for free without incurring too much cost you could then see if you are adding value (creating an echo) and then if so you can then establish a suitable method of gaining financial reward from your service.
I honestly don't feel that people would pay for this service. But if you were able to collect simple data upon sign up and get people to agree to receive one advertising message per week in addition to 7 dad jokes then you might have the start of a revenue stream.
For example. You ask each of your customers for their mobile number and City of residence upon sign up. After a few months you know that you have 5,000 customers in the New York area. A comedy club in the local area is looking for new customers, you offer to text your entire database of clients that live within the comedy club's catchment area with a link to their event page with a joke from the act performing. You charge the comedy club 50 cents per message sent, cheap advertising for them and $2 of monthly revenue per customer for you provided you manage to sell a targeted message per week.
Value added for the customer and the advertiser. Income for you without going into the complexity of setting up monthly billing with your customers. I'd much rather charge a corporate entity $1000 for example than bill 2000 individuals 50 cents.
Good luck with your idea.
Sorry for all the random comments, but one other thought entered my mind about this thread. One of the reasons I haven't shared my own SaaS yet is premature criticism. I trust my own assessment of the market enough to at least test an MVP without soliciting the feedback from others. While feedback from others can be constructive, it also makes it easier to question yourself, your knowledge of your market, and ultimately lose confidence in what might have been a good idea. It's not to say that our feedback is invalid, because it's certainly valid. However, if you solicit feedback from others before even testing an idea in the market, it'll be hard to ever "leave the nest". People are naturally critical and negative of outside ideas, and if you are not prepared to be met with this barrage of negativity it will taint your perception of your idea.
Of course, you may be iron-willed and impervious to harsh critique, but just sharing my perspective.
I can't speak for anyone else, but as a 26 year old male I would not pay. I would probably sign up for free though, and then you'd have my email.
One question I'll add to what I've already shared, what problem is this solving?
The sense of humor varies so much from person to person. I think most of the comedians on TV are not funny, and many are boring or downright disgusting. Even it I like someone, it does not mean I would want to hear their jokes every day, or pay for that.
At work someone was sending weekly work hours tracking reminders with Dilbert cartoons in them. I liked them, but then the corporate banned Dilbert, and none of the others were any funny, so I had to block all these emails.
Neither is Angry Birds.
So I was thinking, should I just make it $2/month instead? Would a $1 difference really deter users from paying at all? Is this something you guys think people would even pay for in the first place? My fiancee seems to think it should just be something we do for free and fun...but it costs money to send texts and I would also like to at least make SOME money out of it.
Any thoughts/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
send me dad jokes free and sell me dad joke items.
dont waste your time; i think you are on the right track mindset wise; go back to the drawing board mate and try again
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