If you want to get paid, projects will need a lot of non-coding work after coding the basic features: presentation website, payment/licensing, contact forms, ProductHunt/HN launch, copy text (have you ever tried to fit what your product solves in two short sentences?)
One good strategy I found accidentally through Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) is to launch for free, prioritizing the contact form, and letting people know that you’ll want to make the product paid in the future.
After all the user feedback, the product will probably look very different from the first free version and most people will want to pay for the new polished version.
Some will feel betrayed, but as long as you’re keeping the old free version available, you’re not doing anything wrong.
I shared Lunar for free for 4 years before doing a huge paid update with Apple Silicon support and a ton of user feedback implemented. Most people were happy to pay and I’m now doing Lunar full time, earning around $3.5k a month, and the best part is that Lunar v1 only needed about one week of work to see that it solves a real problem.
Thanks! Not sure if you’re aware but Lunar also has XDR Brightness: https://lunar.fyi/#xdr
In fact the feature landed in Lunar before Vivid launched and it uses a different approach that increases the brightness for the whole system instead of only for what’s behind an overlay like Vivid does (although the overlay also has its own advantages like being able to only increase brightness for a single window etc. )
It can be activated in the same way as Vivid: increase brightness over 100%
Yep, that was why I installed Lunar as well. I was evaluating the various options, between Vivid, Lunar and BetterDummy since they all have the XDR feature.
One good strategy I found accidentally through Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) is to launch for free, prioritizing the contact form, and letting people know that you’ll want to make the product paid in the future.
After all the user feedback, the product will probably look very different from the first free version and most people will want to pay for the new polished version. Some will feel betrayed, but as long as you’re keeping the old free version available, you’re not doing anything wrong.
I shared Lunar for free for 4 years before doing a huge paid update with Apple Silicon support and a ton of user feedback implemented. Most people were happy to pay and I’m now doing Lunar full time, earning around $3.5k a month, and the best part is that Lunar v1 only needed about one week of work to see that it solves a real problem.
Even Kitze himself liked it: https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1464203795030761477