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Comment by dcolgan | Hacker News Reader

Wow this is beautiful. The opening captured my attention well and it guided me through everything so that I knew exactly what was going on. I love the little story at the beginning. The site engages me emotionally which is something that a generic goal tracking site wouldn't do. I'm going to give the site a go around to start some habits I've been wanting to start and see if it helps.

As an aside, do you have a monetization strategy for this site?

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Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate you taking the time to review!

As for my business model, you pay what you feel it's worth. At the end of every month, you can review your progress and set your price. While that might not be a contemporary method, I feel that each individual will probably derive different levels of value from Habbit. :)

You might want to do some kind of emotional connection before "donating" paying (1), and review the studies on "pay what you wish".

I can't find the best one I saw (which I believe said to set a default price), but I found these others:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/07/20/how-to-maximize-pay-w...

this one is long, but has a section on "pay what you wish" midway through.

http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-kn...

(1) I mean something like saying: "you accomplished X goal this month !!!". Probably someone else has more specific advice :) , I've never tried pay-as-you wish myself, but seen lots of previous advice here!

Also, it seems that if you click on the Enter button on the first page under the clock more than once, it will zoom in too far.

Oh boy, thanks for catching that!

Exactly, this is great, the design is impressive, and the engaging story at the start engages you emotionally :) as dcolgan says.

I'll add my "wow" to the list. Based on the responses, you definitely hit the right chord. AND it's a problem worth solving.

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