Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site? With the recent surge in AI-generated content, I built a website called Voloshow that generates images and videos using AI. However, it has been live for almost a month and still hasn’t attracted a single user. I’m not sure what I did wrong. website is called Voloshow (https://voloshow.com/). |
You’re welcome to come back and try it again anytime.
And from a quick scan of the website, I don't see how yours is different from the million other websites that generate AI videos and images. Except I have to register to even try it, which is already a huge point of friction that many other websites don't have.
It’s like you’re selling apples for $1 directly outside the grocery store. Why wouldn’t I just go inside and buy them from the same place you just got them?
Who is this product for? And for what use case?
This is why people recommend niche markets.
E.g. This is for B2B marketers who need a tool to create social content.
Congrats though for launching. 99% of people don’t even do that. But now the hard work starts, and 99% of user adoption is now marketing (not the product itself).
It’s almost like you’re offering a taxi service to people who want to own cars. Now, here’s the thing, even when people own cars, they still outsource driving in certain situations: taxi home from the bar, limo/party bus for evens, rides to the airport, group tours, long distance, etc, etc.
Instead, of general, focus in on a specific use case and make it as simple as possible to get good results with that specific use case.
Even, then, I’m doubtful of the ability to get traction in this space. People don’t really appreciate AI generated art. The only place obviously AI generated art seems to get traction is terrible FB ads and NSFW content.
If the registration form for "other sign in methods" ends up partially off screen on desktop, mouse scrolling doesn't work and the only way to reach the rest of the fields (for me it was verification code field, the button to request the code and registration button) is to press Tab.
Verification code requests end with 502 Bad Gateway from Cloudflare.
We have fixed the login issue. Thank you very much for your feedback! As a token of our appreciation, we have added some free credits to your account.
You’re welcome to come back and use the service again anytime!
<closes tab, and regrets not closing it earlier>
Look at your analytics, I’ll bet real money that part of your problem is the high friction website you’ve built. I entered a prompt, and after a non-trivial bit of effort I was told to fuck off (“insufficient credits”). I don’t see any great mystery here.
My interaction was, try to generate an image, get hit by a sign in screen, my enthusiasm has gone, close tab.
„Voloshow“ just comes up with this hn thread not the site
Maybe the surge in content is not demand driven.
https://flash.getgai.com/ if anyone else wants to join
I left it running because it's my first project ever to get traction in terms of regular users, even though it costs me a few dollars a month to run. It's clearly not good enough to pay for