Ask HN: How would you market this service?

Hi all,

I have a genuine problem here, I have been working for myself on a licensing layer for my personal apps.

A few fellow developers are using it after seeing how good it is, but I've had a very hard time getting new users into the platform.

In average, a dozen of people are signing up a week and are going through the first steps, setup their dashboard and issue their first license. I made a CLI that automates all of that by safely.

Then, blank.

I feel like I didn't find the way to properly show off the service or I don't know. For me it totally make sense to use a licensing layer, it ensures your data stays in one spot, even if u use multiple payment providers or MoR.

Although it seems hard for people to understand the value of it.

I won't share the link, I'm not doing marketing here. The SaaS is really about, licensing your app, customer portal, payment provider agnostic, deep analytics, usage and cross-platform SDKs.

Do any of you have any ideas?

4 points | by dmzxnico 18 hours ago

4 comments

  • codegeek 2 hours ago
    I looked at your landing page and I cannot understand what it does. What are you licensing exactly ? Is it a license for softsare product (e.g. license key etc) OR is it license as in restricting how many users can access the product etc ?

    I think you need to be very clear on what problem are you solving exactly and for whom ? May be I am not your target audience but I have no clue what you offer from your landing page.

  • davedx 12 hours ago
    I'm actually working on this problem by building OctoLoops (https://octoloops.com) to help find channels to promote the app and get users. It's working so far (the main agent I'm using is communities, which finds threads on Reddit and Indiehackers to post comments on). It's all human-in-the-loop to avoid being spammy and try to be genuinely helpful to people instead while also promoting the tool.

    I'd love to hear your ideas on whether it would be useful for you too. Let me know if you give it a try (email's in HN profile), and good luck with your service!

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    • jcjmcclean 12 hours ago
      Love this idea, thanks for sharing. I'll give it a try when I launch my next project!
  • whatdoyoumean02 16 hours ago
    You might have a positioning problem more than a product problem.Have you tried asking users what made them stop after issuing their first license?
  • tmpsvc2695f5 2 hours ago
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