11k daily users is very good even without this so-called "product mindset"!

Imagine how many more users could be using if it had a product mindset.

The dev is asking on the site for people to support the development with subscriptions, but they say here they have basically zero subscribers. So 11k daily users hasn't translated to something that people want to actually pay to support. That could change.

It’s possible you’re not the target audience?

I guess if the target audience is people who already know what it is?

Devils advocate: when Google launched it was just a blank form field.

Similar to ChatGPT.

But those who knew what it is, their usage is huge.

That's an absurd comparison.

At the time there were dozens of search engines and new ones every day. Everybody knew what search engines were, and what they offered. Google did not invent the form field -> SRP pattern; people were already used to that. Google was able to rise above the field because 1. yes the homepage was nice, but more importantly 2. the results were so much better than competitors.

I don't understand the comparison to SQLite online because what are the well-known competitors, and what is it even trying to do?

Not even going to touch the ChatGPT comparison.

This is accurate. Back then nobody went to google and was confused when it was just an input box. They went there already knowing it was a search engine and that search engines needed input. They came back because the results were so good (relative to competitors).

The clean interface just stood out as the other competitors at the time we're bogged down by ads. So a quick loading page in a time of slow internet connections, was a very nice user-centric feature.

Thank you! I will strive to improve the interface and make it more intuitive.

No, please. Don't inflate the team to something that would need investors. It's cool that an alter-Web can exist without 10 person teams.

It is quite possible that this will be the case.

It is very straightforward to hire UX designer in a contract, or even just ask ChatGPT to design an interface that is better than a software engineer's minimum effort (and possibly experience) in UX.

If you're making enough money, you can hire a designer every now and then to tell you where your UX suffers and how to fix it. No investors necessary.

(or: just solicit feedback in a space frequented by designers, and harness the power of being wrong on the internet ;)

And what currency is it in? Seems so odd to not put it in dollars or euros.

And FURTHERMORE, the $ sign is incorrectly to the right of the numbers. It should be $10. Personally, this shows such a lack of product thinking, and simply hacking away at a tool instead of delivering a service.

I mean, it does clearly say it's 1,000₽ which is Russian rubles. Why would the price be listed in dollars if it's not being collected in dollars?