Zooming out, I’ve been working on this app for 2 years and 3 months and only have two paid users.
You mentioned in your previous post that you had a bug preventing people from paying you (oof). I’m curious how many people tried, if you were able to figure that out from your logs?
I ask because one possible direction would be to stop doing any serious work on the app, but leave it up (with that bug fixed, if you didn’t already) and see what happens. You won’t get rich but you might get enough income to be worth the occasional maintenance hassle.
(This isn’t me advising you to do that, you know your stuff better than I do. But this is the option that was on my mind the whole time and I was surprised you didn’t address it.)
I actually do plan on doing what you describe: leave it up, and also continue to work on it in my spare time. I enjoy working on it (when I’m not feeling pressured), and as a poker player, there are a few tools that I want to build for myself. There are also a few sort of last ditch things that I plan on trying, but none of them require me to be working on it full time.
In retrospect, this would have been a good thing for me to address in the post, because you’re right, it’s a logical question for the reader to ask.
As for the bug preventing people from paying me, I’m not sure exactly how many tried, but it seems like it was four or five. I have since fixed the bug (ended up just being a small typo), and after I did I emailed all ~100 people who were signed up for the free trial, and have gotten one paid user. Now that I think about it, I should reach back out to those four or five people who previously tried to pay me. I’ll go do that right now :)
You mentioned in your previous post that you had a bug preventing people from paying you (oof). I’m curious how many people tried, if you were able to figure that out from your logs?
I ask because one possible direction would be to stop doing any serious work on the app, but leave it up (with that bug fixed, if you didn’t already) and see what happens. You won’t get rich but you might get enough income to be worth the occasional maintenance hassle.
(This isn’t me advising you to do that, you know your stuff better than I do. But this is the option that was on my mind the whole time and I was surprised you didn’t address it.)
I actually do plan on doing what you describe: leave it up, and also continue to work on it in my spare time. I enjoy working on it (when I’m not feeling pressured), and as a poker player, there are a few tools that I want to build for myself. There are also a few sort of last ditch things that I plan on trying, but none of them require me to be working on it full time.
In retrospect, this would have been a good thing for me to address in the post, because you’re right, it’s a logical question for the reader to ask.
As for the bug preventing people from paying me, I’m not sure exactly how many tried, but it seems like it was four or five. I have since fixed the bug (ended up just being a small typo), and after I did I emailed all ~100 people who were signed up for the free trial, and have gotten one paid user. Now that I think about it, I should reach back out to those four or five people who previously tried to pay me. I’ll go do that right now :)