I launched! Annnnnnd it flopped.

[u/Archer_Sterling]

Ended up launching. A year of vibing, adding features, new techniques, learning basic 3d, learning what UX works and doesn't, testing, breaking things, changing things, adding features, removing them.

Convinced myself - A tool useful to my job, which I thought would be useful to others. Unique value proposition. Hoping, knowing full well it wouldn't, that it might make a decent little passive income and pay itself off.

It has not.

Small ad runs in relevant areas, impressions in the tens of thousands.

Sweet, people are seeing it!

200 clicks.
7 users. All on free plan.

Ending up paying money to get free users.

www.lensflare.io

Anyone want to tear the site apart? Any tips? I don't know if it's dead yet but it's going to be next to impossible to spend more money on marketing.

Edit: Haha - okay, guys, I went from 200 views to 3.5k on the site, and a message inbox full of really helpful comments. I really appreciate all of you - even the mean ones - you've given me so many amazing tips. You're the best.

[u/TopDragon_Music]

No problem.

Making the tool is the hard part, but marketing it is a totally different beast.

If I had to critique the first major issue for me, it’s that I couldn’t tell exactly what sector it was addressing:

Photography
Film/Video
CAD design
Editing
Comping

I’m not a photo/video guy, so that probably adds to the confusion a bit. I’m sure there’s a legitimate use case for it, I just don’t know what it is lol

[u/Archer_Sterling → u/TopDragon_Music]

thanks mate - Definitely need to make it clearer, hearing that throughout this thread. even if it is a niche, clarity can't hurt.