Besides crowd-funding your projects, it is also a tool for you to show off your process and the steps involved. That way you can also grow users while you raise funds. So if your project/product fits into that space, we'd love to see it :)
Thank you for commenting! We worked extremely hard to get it shipped despite some massive life obstacles. It represents a huge triumph of willpower and overcoming self-doubt just to be at this point.
We will continue adding support for other 3rd-party services (InfusionSoft is nearly complete) and plan to offer those later on, as single purchases, and we have talked about ideas in the realm of consulting (ie priority support, sales and marketing help, etc), but at this point, we're just hoping for some response. :)
As a counterpoint, I strongly feel that your pricing is just fine (maybe even a bit low!). You just need to make it clear that it's a one-time payment (assuming it is--if you want to integrate recurring revenue for some aspects, you'll need to re-jig things a bit).
People selling shit online are making (or expecting/hoping to make) thousands of dollars on the low end. The non-technical ones (ie. not the majority of people on this forum, which is why price perceptions are skewed here IMO) will gladly pay a developer $7-800 dollars to put it all together the way you have done here. You're making it easier for everyone by offering a plug-in that does the work, and in light of that I think your pricing is very reasonable.
That's a really flattering comment! Dan told me he is blushing, hahaha... We're taking your feedback and we're going to do whatever we can to make things better in the messaging. We'll get some clear communication about this being a one-time payment up there ASAP.
First - I don't know if it is a one-time fee or a monthly or yearly (it's not clear)?
Second - because I can't frame it against anything, it's hard for me to justify the price. You say "Even though this package is small, it will still save you hundreds of $$$ and dozens of hours trying to figure out how to get paid on your WordPress site" What specific money am I saving? Care to elaborate on this more?
Third - the copy in the pricing is WAY too wordy. I need bullet points and I need an easy way to compare the 3. Check this blog out for some suggestions for improvements: http://blog.priceintelligently.com/
I don't actually know. I guess I'm not your target audience.
I'm using Gumroad, Mailchimp and Wordpress pretty often, and (for me) it's not really problematic or time consuming. That's why your solution is not worth so much to me. But that's just me... once more, best wishes with the project ;)
Thanks for responding! Our target audience is folks who don't have the technical know-how to get their Gumroad product overlays into their Wordpress themes, and they need a quick, convenient solution to stitch together Gumroad, their Wordpress website, and their email service (Mailchimp, GetResponse, Aweber, and soon others like InfusionSoft). It handles everything in a single motion. Thank you again for the well wishes!!
Hi All, this is Fred, the developer who built Gumpress. I'm happy to answer questions about the plugin. It's been a long road for me and Dan, my friend and partner on this project, and we're hoping that we can help a few people, starting with this. I'll be honest, I'm a little nervous about how this will be received. I've never done a "Show HN" before and this is also my first plugin I've made for the general public... :) Thank you for your time.
UPDATE: We've decided to run a discount on the Business Builder, $50 off, the next 12 copies and to see if this helps. https://gumroad.com/l/gfXK/fzzlpie Apologies if I'm breaking a rule by responding with this - I hope not, let me know if so... but I do want everyone to know that we are trying to take your advice! :)
I know this story, I think most of us suffer from this feeling.
First off, we shouldn't just sit down and start typing into a blank page. We all do it, but remind yourself just the same that doing some high-level conceptualization is very helpful.
Maybe you are getting overwhelmed thinking about all that you need to do, and it's discouraging you out of being in your "zone"? That happens to me. Remind yourself to only focus on the next five minutes.
I'm self taught. I have and had a lot of broken knowledge, misunderstood concepts, etc. I was able to overcome most and self-teach by first trying to find a patch of code that did something similar to what I needed or wanted, and then I copied it and re-purposed it. I truly can't think of a better teaching method than to find and tweak analogous code snippets.
I also think you are in a corporate culture that kinda... sucks. It doesn't seem very collaborative. Get out of there as soon as you can, and I mean don't wait till you think you are ready, I mean do it as soon as sanely possible.
+1 this. SMBs all the way. It's a good balance between too small and too large. I always saw it as better to be standing on 100 legs rather than 5. Less instability when you lose one.
That's true, but don't forget, in the context of the product that I'm working on right now - it was built at the request of a client, and their system integrator saw the results and was seriously impressed, enough to suggest we try to resell it and offered to help through referrals, though I'd much rather have him on board in a more formal capacity to reach out to other integrators he knows (he's got a good-paying gig and has no reason to move on quite yet from it)
