Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by zenincognito 1466 days ago
Congrats on shipping. I like the product.

What are your plans on developing this further? Who do you see as a potential user of this product? How does the product intend on making money and remaining profitable?

1 comments

Thanks! Yeah it's a tough one - I feel it would be someone who'd want to use Google Sheets, but doesn't want the full weight of using Google Sheets.

The challenge being that this type of app isn't well known, so has been difficult targeting ads / SEO. I'm also finding the usefulness of other notepad calculators being that that they're desktop apps, so I'm investigating creating an Electron desktop app (plus gives the advantage of the App Store as another channel)

In terms of monetisation, most probably a freemium model where a user can create 5 sheets, and if they want more it could be a $5/month product. If it gets in an organisation it could scale but one step at a time ;)

I've also optimised those templates to be indexed as landing pages so if there's enough traffic, advertising could be another option.

Finally, has been in the back of my mind but potentially trying to hit the education market, though I'm not really familiar in the space so that's a bit further down the list.