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by superdario 1061 days ago
There is some niche in my market that I'm trying to tackle and it's fun for me, I'm enjoying it. I will definitely try that one, but the problem is that mentality of people in my country is that they are so unwilling to pay for something or try, most people are like: "Do I need to pay for this? If yes, then I'm not going to".
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This is common here too, perhaps everyone, money is hard to come by :) However, this is not insurmountable, remember, you are looking for a small number of VERY satisfied customers, let's look at how the bigger companies address this inertia; A free trial period, with enough proprietary lock in aspects that's it's non-trivial to migrate. A free tier with tight limits that means you rapidly need to decide whether it's worth paying for, therefore your service ends up with committed customers and doesn't burn too much cash supporting unpaid use. Discounts for signing up, money back guarantees that are just enough hassle to enact that 80%+ won't file. If your market is real, as in you've got 10 people who agree that if your product delivers what you promise they would pay X for it then keep going, in my experience the step from zero to 10 gets a lot of the hard work done, you can exit that stage with a clear plan including expectations and commitments that if completed correctly give you the best shot at success.
That seems like a sign that the problem you’re solving isn’t painful enough for the client. They pay for all kinds of things that are important to them. So either what you’re providing isn’t important enough to them, or it could be important but they don’t see it (they don’t understand how much they could benefit). You HAVE to be good at communicating to do this (or have a partner that can).
Then stop trying to sell a product and give one away.
Actually I did that, I made an app pro-bono, people are using it, but I get nothing out of it
Then what pays the bill?
I am, from my regular job