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by hopeless
5516 days ago
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I like it (caveat: I'm not the target market) It's simple and doesn't require much interaction from the user. Ideally, I would set the notifications at 1month and 1week as some clients may have purchase orders to be written etc (or for small businesses, on holiday for example over Christmas) Only other thought: this doesn't have to be a webapp. It could function just as well as a cross-platform desktop app or browser extension. Sure, that's a one-off payment model but I would worry that a user wouldn't be signing into Flaregun that often so the likelihood of maintaining a monthly subscription would be low. I would just worry that if that aren't logging in often, the perceived value goes down. Best of luck! |
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Your notification periods sound spot on. Early (1 month) to allow purchase order & client holidays + potentially clients wanting to let a domain lapse. The system could then do another whois lookup expiry check before sending out the 1 week left reminder.
I take your point about the monthly subscription model. Thinking of the monthly services I pay for I tend to log in pretty regularly. As you say Flaregun isn't really like this. You would dump your domains into it when you first sign up, then login every so often to add a new domain (10-30 seconds). So payment options are:
1. Keep it monthly and perhaps reduce price.
2. Charge a one off fee (local program) - it could even be some kind of spreadsheet addon. However I favour a webapp as it is the easiest incarnation to iterate and further develop. Also a local program would need to always be running to display / send the notifications.
3. Yearly subscription. Domains are yearly so this would kind of tie in. Getting into a customers head if you thought Flaregun solved a problem for you, you probably would be fairly loyal - i.e. it's not a try it, see if I like and if I get on with it I will keep it kind of product. You either want it or you don't. But I always feel an upfront yearly cost increases the barrier to subscription. I wonder if a yearly cost with a 100% money back guarantee if not satisfied, could be the answer.
Any other thoughts / ideas appreciated.
Cheers,