Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by docsapp_io on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:13PM (#14723867)

I built DocsApp (https://www.docsapp.io/) two years ago and launched around 8 months ago.

So far no revenue because I focus on building features. While DocsApp already launched 8 months ago, I still don`t see any growth in term of active users.

So far only one active user with two sites and few users sign up to test then abandon completely, possibly go to competitor site with much expensive pricing.

Here is what I think did wrong:

1. No marketing effort to reach more users.

2. UX really important.

3. Actively reach out to users to gather feedback.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by dotmanish on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:02AM (#14725282)

> So far no revenue because I focus on building features.

You can possibly reverse the funnel. Reach out to mailing lists / IRC channels / Slack channels to get feedback from developers and then develop features accordingly.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by docsapp_io on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:50PM (#14728258)

Good idea. Definitely will do that!

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by artosispylon on Saturday July 08, 2017 @03:45PM (#14726889)

Wow, this is really cool! If I ever finish a project that doesn't belong on this thread, I will definitely consider using DocsApp

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