[goobatrooba]

Hi Leo, using a valid email and password I get a "There was an error with your registration" error.

Also I wonder... How sustainable is this? Free is great, but what is your income/maintenance model? E.g. you offer calendar which even many paid email providers don't offer.. :-)

Thanks for what looks at the surface like a very sleek tool.. i haven't been able to see it on substance.

[Leomuck]

Hey gooba! Thanks for wanting to try it out. And sorry, you ran into this issue.

It appears Laravels throttling function doesn't work well with my reverse proxy setup. I have disabled it for now. I have just tried it out and registering works again.

Again, sorry for this. This is my first publication attempt and I fear some issue will only show this way.. however, I'm here and happy to fix everything on the fly :)

[Leomuck]

Oh, and I missed the middle part of your post. Fair question! I do think it is quite sustainable. For that to make sense you might have to know me better, but my perspective is I have a good paying job, I have money and especially time to spare and I want to make things better. So I'm honestly happy to spend money AND time on this to be sustainable. I have a very capable root server to run this on and I have money already reserved to get another one. I'm getting by just fine and I'm more than happy to spend some hundreds of euros a month to make the world a little easier/better for people. I'm also happy to spend my time for this.

I did think a lot about monetizing it, but really I feel like that would skew the whole idea of the app. I want this to be for the community. We struggle enough with enshittification anywhere. I'm in a privileged position where I can build and maintain this. And it's available for self-hosting, so anybody can do so as well.

Now, if we were to hit an insane amount of users, the question might have to be tackled again, but that's far away and I think with the infrastructure I have and can get with my allocated "solidary" budget, It'd really have to get to insane amounts to actually be an issue.

So I'd like to think it is indeed sustainable. I'm doing this to be sustainable. I want to build something people appreciate and use. I'm happy to spend lots on it!

[goobatrooba]

Danke Leo, Seems to work again! Very nice and fast onboarding. To be honest I signed up without a specific use case so have to figure out what I really want to do with the tool, but I'm impressed at the sleekness and speed. Eversthing sleek, unitary design, feels well developed and mature. Very impressive for a freshly launched product!

Small suggestions:

* maybe default-disable some of the modules people are less likely to use (e.g. finance). After doing the selection the onboarding-per-module tries to go through everything - maybe easier to start with 3-5 default and then invite people to add? It feels a bit overwhelming if you don't really know what you want yet. But that might all just be me. * I noticed DE and ES are "du" but FR is "sie", not sure that was intended, I guess it's AI misinterpretating the prompt (or maybe the eternal DE-FR feud made the "vous" a conscious choice?). The German is also a little clunky but that's quite normal for translations.. * Some info on how to export would be great (e.g. MD notes) * Maybe you want to make a slight narrative change, from "sign up for free" (which I read first as indicating that a payment requests comes later) to "sign up - it's free" and summarise a bit your philosophy as above to make clear that you intend to keep it that way - but maybe it's already there and I missed it :-)

Tolle Initiative und immer schön zu sehen wenn Leute versuchen die Welt besser zu machen!

[Leomuck]

Now a little more in-depth response. Thanks again for your feedback, I could relate to all points you mentioned.

- You are totally right. The "Try it for free" could very easily hint at cost down the line. I have changed it :) - Cool that you understand so many languages :) And thanks for your suggestions. Looking into it right now. Translations is one of those things.. doing it by hand (not me, but someone with good language knowledge) is very time-intensive, but yea, AI can be hit or miss for it. - I'm definitely thinking about starting with a leaner set of features. My only fear would be that people forget there is more to it. But that should be solvable via UI. - Definitely going to add more info on export! That's a shortcoming right now which I aim to fix this week. - Regarding philosophy, I'll think about it. I'm not great at marketing (and don't even want to look at it as "marketing"), so I'm always a little unsure what messages belong where. But good to hear, that a more detailed part on this could be good.

[Leomuck]

Hey gooba, danke danke danke! I'll have a go through all your points tomorrow, greatly appreciated! Especially since when you work on something for so long, you just can't see things with fresh eyes anymore. So it really is great to get feedback like yours. So thanks again!