Hello fellow hackers!
THE PAST - BACKSTORY:
Last year, I had this idea of hosting my links, but if someone came onto my links, how do I guide them?
I felt a gap in this market, let me explain:
There was Linktree as one of the key aggregators in the industry, but it lacked one key feature in my opinion, it lacked guidance, so I went on and made a simplified version of it, but with my twist, of each LINK HAVING IT'S own description.
I went ahead and built it, after work hours, it did take months and I launched it.
A Linkspace profile looks like this:
https://linkspace.bio/veerxyz
It's been 3 months approx. since proper deployment and I have not even touched 25 new users, I didn't market it anywhere except a video on YouTube and hacker news (and even on indie hackers maybe), but the people who joined gave me 'okayish' feedback, I didn't either force them into asking more, maybe they are getting used to links having a description, coming from other link aggregation sites, or maybe they didn't like the minimalist black and white UI.
I haven't added features too much because the core element for my project was having a description with links, once I got some people then I would have added extra sauces to it.
Also, there were no forced paywalls or paid models, I wanted everyone to equally have a go at the project, hence, I gave the users an option, if they wanted they can support the project voluntarily through the ko-fi platform.
https://ko-fi.com/linkspacebio
This was the only way the project remains alive and I could have built it into a small-sized link aggregator with descriptions.
I know there are a lot of aggregators by default, just copied with gimmicky features, and flashy UI, some of which I personally enjoyed!
Nonetheless, I felt that if I went that way then linkspace would have been just another linktree copy cat with different UI? Idk, maybe I was overthinking but my very core was stay true to the USP of this project and it was the Link Descriptions part.
Project Social:
https://x.com/linkspacebio
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THE PRESENT - AS OF TODAY:
Perhaps, now looking back at it, it was a good learning lesson, I never wanted to get super rich with this anyway (you can judge from the PWYW model), but I did hope there would be someone who found it interesting, to have your links speak for themselves individually and better guide potential customers yk,
I am asking you guys if you think I should keep going or shut it down.
I thought I would have had a small community of 100 people who make use of it and in turn maybe, if they can, support the dev. of the project as well, as it is very barebones no doubt and we could have built from there. A barebones project would have made a good starting project, but I've run out of motivation now.
THE FUTURE - UNCERTAIN.
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This is what it feels like to have failed a SaaS project.
May you have a good day.
Regards
karanveer
