Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by sejtnjir on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:46AM
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Neat! What's your business model?
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:50AM
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I literally just switched to a very limited freemium model yesterday (just trialling it for now), but before then it was just pay to access.
It's $39 per quarter or $99 per year for access to all the content.
Quite a low priced product with decently high churn, so I've been trying to find ways to increase the value.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by deevus on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:55AM
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Bonjoro is great for reducing churn. https://www.bonjoro.com
Check out how Matt Ragland from ConvertKit uses it here: https://www.bonjoro.com/uses
Disclaimer: I'm the CTO
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by taneq on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:11AM
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Honest question, doesn't this creep people out? I mean, I'm obviously not the target market but I find it awkward enough when sites pop up those "Hi I'm <name>, how can I help you?" chat windows even though I know they're just a script. I can't imagine how I'd feel if I'd bought something a while back from a site and I got a personalized video from the person running it.
(Then again I did buy a Klein bottle a few years back and it came with basically a photo commentary of it being shipped and that was absolutely awesome, so...)
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:00AM
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Bonjoro is such an awesome idea! I was aware of it, but never thought to actually try it out myself. I'll look into it!
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by Freeboots on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:05AM
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So, how exactly does this work? You get a notification that a customer has triggered your bonjoro, and then you record a video and send it to them via email?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by deevus on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:51PM
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Generally it works like this
- Discrete event (new signup, product purchased, new blog subscriber etc)
- Task is created in Bonjoro
- Bonjoro user records a video and it is sent to the person who caused the event
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by Havoc on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:39AM
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Higher pricing than i would have guessed. But I guess it solves a professional pain point so worth it
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by icebraining on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:49AM
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Seems cheap for a business case. Even when I worked in a low-wage EU country, that would easily fit into my training budget.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by khuknows on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:40AM
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What would your guess have been?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by Havoc on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:26PM
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Probably around 60% of that.
But as I said if professionals are willing to happy then no point in being shy on pricing