maghfoor

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Comment · 1 year ago
hmmmmm
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for a thorough review. It's very helpful honestly. You raise some valid concerns I will make the following changes.

- I will add an option for the user to delete their account upon hitting the paywall if they don't want to continue. - I didn't want the app to be free to begin with as it doesn't attract serious users and also because I'm an indie maker and free users is not something that I can ultimately afford at this current stage. - You're right, I should have a way for the user to trial the app and then pay once instead of the trial being on the weekly subscription only.

As for guaranteeing lifetime access, a lot of web based products offer lifetime access and I guess it's just a matter of trusting the maker if they will support it. For my particular app I know that I've been involved in the productivity space for quite some years and only now making an app that suits my needs. I imagine myself using this for all the years to come and if I stop using it, it's self hosted on a server I own and I will keep it live forever. If the user doesn't trust that then that's completely fair and fine. No issues with that.

Lots of useful feedback, thanks again for the write up! Still building and learning and trying to be as genuine as possible.

Comment · 1 year ago
noted, thank you for the feedback. I will improve on this. Didn't test this case during my development phase. Much appreciated
Comment · 1 year ago
For me personally I did try a lot of these habit trackers and notetaking systems and none of them quite worked for me so I just decided to build something that's very specific to how I like things. I didn't just build a habit tracker or whatever just for the sake of building another one, I built one that specifically suits my needs.

Usually what happens is a lot of other people in the world also feel the same way as me and if they like how I have approached the app then they would download it and use it and I think that's how you get a lot of different types of habit trackers coming up all the time

Comment · 1 year ago
If I'm honest I haven't thought about it fully yet but atm I felt comfortable enough to give access for 29.99 forever. And if users don't want to spend that much and maybe only want to try it for a couple of weeks then they can get on the weekly plan with a free trial
Comment · 1 year ago
Haha funny that you mention that because yeah I would like to have that in the future. it would be nice to have all my Strava data synced into this sometime in the future
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the feedback, I will implement something to skip onboarding maybe for users who clearly understand the value proposition
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey thank you so so much for the thorough feedback, it's very much appreciated! I will have a look at these bugs and fix them. I mostly just get time to work on this on weekends and evenings so progress is a bit slow but better than nothing nonetheless
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for the lovely comment!

It's stored in a VPS hosted convex backend. I'm currently building functionality to export data :)

Comment · 1 year ago
And just like that, changed it in under 1min. Beauty of web dev.
Comment · 1 year ago
Dude, that is so true. I think I agree with you and your reframing. Going to change it to that

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