Hey there, owner of the website here. Glad someone noticed that! It's not something we really like to advertise, but I also know there should be more info about it. For anyone interested, the organization we have donated to since launch is the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, I recommend checking them out!
Very sorry if the login screen looks creepy ahah, definitely got to improve that side. The tutorial will go away as soon as the landing page is live later next month.
I do know lofi.cafe as it's from a fellow italian developer, but I think the concept is quite different. Thanks for the feedback!
Hey, thank you for the feedback. I absolutely get what you're saying, a solution can be 'installing' the website as an app (you should get the prompt in the browser to do so). Plan for the future is to have both a desktop and mobile app though, which would definitely be the best solution
Hey there, I appreciate the feedback and the tutorial screens will definitely go away as soon as the landing page will be live later next month.
Can I ask what you mean by unable to stop or pause?
It was a direct response to auto-playing when loading the page. I think if you did that but popped the screens you do now you pose a problem of people that load the page but don’t have the ability to pause. Imagine a work environment as an example of that.
I presume they might mean ability to play and pause with either integrated phone controls or keyboard play pause. In other words, it should be simple to pause the background music if needed. Lovely application! I’ll use it at work tomorrow.
when the 'buy premium' window with the difference between free and paid tier was up, I couldn't use the controls to pause the music. The controls should always work.
Hey there, answering as this is an app of mine and I like to hear people's feedback. You don't actually need to do any sign-up or navigate the tutorials to use the website, there are both an X on the top right and a 'leave tutorial' button to go directly to the play button/mixer
Hey! This is actually a website of mine, so I appreciate the feedback. About the price, any alternative or similar products' memberships cost around double (if not more) for often less features, so I'd say the pricing is actually quite low.
For the costs, I would say S3 for the assets is the biggest one, at least with the current 150-200,000 monthly users. The actual art as well is a cost since it's all original, but that can vary if say we don't add any new set for a month, which has happened only one time.
Thanks again for the feedback!
Hi there, paid lofi.co member here (I joined to try it out). First off thanks for making this site. I am super into Lofi, listen to it every single day, make my own playlists, have lofi merch, etc.
As much as I love lofi, I agree with the other comments that it's hard to compete with the abundant cheap/free content out there. I'm not saying this isn't higher production quality (it definitely is) or this doesn't pull it all together better (it does). I'm saying: it's not 10x better such that I would want to pay for it. I don't think $1 vs $4 makes much of a difference - it's the jump from free to paid that's the sticking point.
I want this to succeed and I think I am your exact target market, so I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what would make this worth it. In its current form it seems to only be providing enough value to be ad supported (hopefully your revenue proves me wrong?).
Stepping back: the overall purpose of lofi IMO is to be able to concentrate and work in a chill productive environment. Some crazy ideas of things I would definitely pay for:
- Maybe it's a monthly coffee subscription sent to your house and the coffee gets featured in the artwork
- Maybe you can set up group study sessions and listen together. There's been some great experiments of scheduling a focus time with another person and they are highly productive
- There's coffee shops in Japan where you can't leave until you finish your work. Maybe some kind of social commitment like that built into the site
- Commit Action is a cool service that helps you break down tasks. Maybe some human consultation like that
Hey there, thank you so much for supporting the platform and also providing valuable feedback. I definitely agree on the group study sessions, as a matter of fact there's a major feature that's been in the works for months heading in that direction. Hopefully it will be ready soon after summer.
The coffee idea seems pretty fun as well!
As for the price, I do agree on the jump between free and paid, but I also think that there's nothing actually similar to lofi.co around. The timer for one, even though it looks like a simple pomodoro timer, it's actually a lot more advanced than that and the only platform I know offering something slightly similar has only that as a product and charges double our monthly fee. Again it's hard to think of lowering the price when the competition is charging netflix-level monthly fees or other similar companies still higher fees for a fraction of the features.
May I ask what you mean with 'enough value to be ad supported'? I don't really like to share revenue online, but I can say the platform is profitable and has been growing steadily since launch.
By ad supported I just mean that if you aren’t creating enough value for enough people to pay, you may be able to get money from ads. But if the site is growing in revenue consistently that’s great!
Oh got it, I've actually never really considered ads because I feel like they could ruin the experience and the money they'd be making wouldn't really be worth it.
MRR has been growing in the 10%-30% range MoM since launch with a pretty high margin so can't complain about that, what I'd like to improve is the conversion rate though, as I feel it could be much better considering the high amount of traffic.
Hi everyone! lofi.co is my first web app, and it combines art, lofi music and productivity tools into an interactive experience. Building It was far more complicated than I thought, mainly because it involved a lot of people: producers, illustrators, labels, designers. I made a lot of mistakes and learned from them, but I’m happy with how it eventually came out. Anyways, hope you like the platform, the main goal is to provide a calming experience and make things like working or studying less stressful than they usually are (not that easy, right?). I already have many upgrades and new features planned so I hope you’ll be able to see it in the next few weeks.
I highly appreciate any kind of feedback and advice!
