74 Days to Ramen Profitability
If you're new here, I'm Roman, a former cognitive scientist and co-founder of ReviewLab, a community-driven platform to help founders and indie makers get feedback on their products. I post daily updates on my progress from $0 to $3K by October 2024.
🚀 Progress made
1. People who found us on MicroLaunch started promoting us on their 𝕏 accounts! It feels really good to know that at least someone likes our idea.
2. I’m trying to create content relevant to our target audience and post it on 𝕏 and Reddit, but it wasn’t really successful.
🤔 Challenges: our review process is NOT fun
Our review process is really demanding, and requires users to switch between tabs and to go through several questions.
Here’s what our users see. They must be really focused motivated to go through this form…
Solution:
1. Simplify the form and remove switching between windows — show the website in an iframe. Something like this (it’s a concept created by Bea a couple of months ago):
2. Add an ability to choose a project that matches user’s interests and expertise. Something like a gallery of projects available for review.
Both of this solutions require a lot of technical work, so we’d need to think carefully about them.
🤪 P.S.: no laptop + no internet day
Tomorrow, I’m going on a 19 km hike to the lakes of Aragats (the highest mountain in Armenia).
We start at an altitude of 3,000 meters and go to 3,500.
Great idea on the iframe, but:
1. Don't lock users into the iframe. Give them the option to open the real website so they can test other things you can't test on an iframe (full screen experience, pagespeed insights, etc).
2. Have the users give feedback in bite-sized pieces. A little at a time, but make it fast: no more than 200ms between my click and the next question. This feels instant to users. Animation for bonus points.