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damechen··on Looseleaf – Chat with Any Document
Not yet, but we will migrate to gpt-4 soon
damechen··on The golden era of being an open startup is gone
Sharing every little details of our internal metrics brings more noise tbh. It has nothing to do with our feedback loop.
damechen··on The golden era of being an open startup is gone
lol
damechen··on The golden era of being an open startup is gone
Damon Chen here (waving hand)

I'm just a guy quitting 9-5 and hope to make some money online to support my family :)

I mentioned apps I built before in this tweet. Testimonial.to is the only one that took off. https://twitter.com/damengchen/status/1344525420813697024

damechen··on Why building an open startup is no longer the best path?
Thank you for the kind words and for reading the article, I appreciate it!
damechen··on I spent $35k on a domain
I'm the founder who bought the testimonial.io domain.

You really underestimated the value of a SaaS, with 6 subs contributing $3,600 ARR, a business will have the chance to be sold 10x at $36k. I can easily recoup my investment from an exit offer, and the domain itself has its investment value too.

Look things forward, not backward! A twitter account has 43k followers today maybe will have 430k followers next year.

429 is fine, even Cloudflare has an outage just a few days ago. For me, it's just learn the lesson, fix the bug by simply upgrading the plan, then move forward :)

damechen··on A Website for Learning Vim
Obviously a clone of vim.so
damechen··on DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers
I bought it a while ago. Love it!
damechen··on Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion
Love it! I have multiple sites hosted by Potion. This is just one of them: https://support.testimonial.to
damechen··on People need a video to believe it
People buy from people!
damechen··on Show HN: Divjoy 2.0 – Build a SaaS app in minutes
It looks like I made a good investment ;)
damechen··on Show HN: Divjoy 2.0 – Build a SaaS app in minutes
Any plan to support other css styling, like tailwindcss?
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
Wow, thank you Darren! Your early feedback is super valuable for me to make my product better. I really appreciate to have your support!
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
Here is another wall: https://testimonial.to/qlearly/all
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
Can you check again? I think issue is fixed :)
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
It's fixed now. Thanks again!
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
sorry :( I will fix it
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
Thank you! iphone x works fine. Let me check older version.
damechen··on Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
OP here. The tool is free to collect text testimonials from your customers. You can add your curated tweet shoutouts into the wall too. New users can get 5 video credits for free!
damechen··on Ask HN: Should I take angel's money?
It makes sense! Not sure if angels care about the growth that much, but it would be definitely the case for most VCs.
damechen··on Ask HN: Should I take angel's money?
100 believe! The thing is I don't know what the impact would be if I take the outside money. I don't really need the money, but if an angel could really help boost my business, I would definitely think about it.
damechen··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
Founder Jen is such an inspirational and helpful woman! Worth to follow her journey on twitter
damechen··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
Most of the traffic comes from Product Hunt and Twitter. I'd share my update very frequently in my tweets. Also, I will study who is my initial paying customer, so I get to know which industry has potential market, then I just go after/outreach those potential users in particular area.
damechen··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
Thank you! Yes, it's damn simple ;)
damechen··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
I solely started https://testimonial.to 2 weeks ago, and it generated over $5k revenue for me since its launch. I wouldn't say success, but at least it's my best launch ever.

Well, the website is an app to help collect video testimonials for your businesses. I offered a lifetime deal, all my revenue is from the lifetime deal. Now the deal is gone. In 2021, I will be only focus on recurring revenue. Start all over again :)

damechen··on Show HN: Testimonial.to – Collect Video Testimonials
Updated my reply above, we do support one-line embed code now, which means you can place your customer's video testimonial anywhere, whatever is Webflow, Carrd, Weebly, or anything.
damechen··on Show HN: Testimonial.to – Collect Video Testimonials
Hey, thanks a lot! Let me know if you have any question :)
damechen··on Show HN: Testimonial.to – Collect Video Testimonials
For now, there is no such embedded link feature. Will put it on my todos. But all videos are downloadable in mp4 format. You can upload to youtube or vimeo so that you can get an embeddable link ;)
damechen··on Show HN: Testimonial.to – Collect Video Testimonials
There is no webflow integration, but you can create a link for your product so that your customers can go there to record testimonials. Simply put the link in your footer, header or wherever you think is appropriate ;)
damechen··on Show HN: Testimonial.to – Collect Video Testimonials
Hey HN friends, op here! I just want to highlight some benefits from testimonial.to:

1. No monthly commitment! You buy video credits as you need. New user can get 5 video testimonial credits. 2. It can collect text testimonials too. No credit needed for text ones, and you can collect unlimited text ones. 3. It have a special launch deal ongoing. $199 for unlimited video testimonials, only 100 seats :)

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