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Would you pay $1 for this SaaS?

subly-iota.vercel.app

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Hello everybody,

I have an early version of a subscription saas.

Straight to the question, Would you pay 1$ / month for this saas? https://subly-iota.vercel.app/

also give a feedback, what can be improved or done

Your home page has some typo. Not sure why would anyone downvote brianUK.

I would, if the friction of having to manually add it is removed (maybe through a browser extension? Most subscriptions are made on a computer IMO).

It is good in theory — how does it find out what subscriptions I have? My problem is that I don’t even remember all of my subscriptions.

So, it's a budgeting tool that doesn't do 99% of what a budgeting tool does? How is this even a SaaS? Does it pay my subscriptions for me? I could do this with a spreadsheet. Or a post-it note. If I need to cancel my subscription before it renews, I'll just set a calendar reminder.

Honestly, this feels like you were learning how to build a CRUD -- and if that's the case, nice job! It looks really good. But just taking that and slapping a pricing page on it is a bit...

If you want to create a subscription service, you need to first provide enough value to justify its cost. Although there's a certain irony in demanding a subscription fee from people worried about their subscription fees.

Btw, are those actually real users' profile pictures under "trusted by many users"? You can reverse image search them, you know; the first one is a guy named Marc. I hope you got permission to use his picture to endorse your product. If it's supposed to be a placeholder, use fake pictures.

Adding onto this - it might help to start by looking at how well-established tools like Buckets help to manage subscriptions. Your typical user probably has other monthly fees besides Netflix and the like, so they would more likely look for a tool that can help them track all of their monthly spending. There is definitely room in the budgeting tool market, and people (myself included!) regularly pay for those tools.

I'd suggest trying them for a few months and see how you can improve on the idea with a focus on subscriptions, if you want to turn this idea into a viable product that people will pay for.

(I hope my comments come across as the constructive criticism they were meant to be.)

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