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by woolion 688 days ago
Different strokes for different folks.

Comparing the two, I'm interested to test OP's site but not yours. The "Get OneTake for 5x Cheaper" and "Birthday discount" give me really off vibes, as well as the absence of a clear pricing page with no fluff, the fake (1) notification in the title, ... The yearly plan gives "30 minutes of editing with OneTake AI" which seems very little (are we talking of 30 minutes working or 30 minutes of video?) and I'm not even sure what is the pricing on that. Also the testimonials all show a date between 3 and 5 minutes, which seems extremely dubious. Clicking the link they do seem legit, but the weird meddling makes it suspicious.

I'm totally willing to believe these tactics work well for you, but I also strongly feels I'm not part of the target audience.

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I appreciate your comment, thanks.

Quick clarification: The testimonials you're referring to say "3m" and "5m" which means "3 months" and "5 months" ago respectively (every couple months, we have a push for sew users to leave us reviews).

As a French person, it did not occur to me that for US readers it might mean "minutes" (here we would abbreviate that to "3 min" and "5 min" respectively).

I think I'll just remove dates from reviews to avoid that confusion. I don't think the platform we're using has i18n.

And we do have a pricing page: https://onetake.ai/pricing

The birthday offer is a test we ran on my birthday (and reopened a few days ago) to introduce a cheaper plan.

Thanks for providing an external perspective. As you mentioned, you are most likely not my target audience, but eliminating confusion always helps, so I'll change a few things now.