Wow, thanks for the amazing feedback! This helps a lot!
Your concerns about the Landingpage are valid & yes its pretty much a layout copy of cjjapanese. I myself am not very good at marketing & design so that’s why I just started with something that already works. The Landingpage will get a full redesign after some feedback (I will for sure highlight the currently available languages!).
On your thoughts of the infinite scroll, I understand your sentiment but I think this is also highly subjective. I could probably add a setting or something similar that changes form infinite scroll to paging but that would be a pretty low priority at the moment. I’d rather improve the infinite scroll in away that it isn’t annoying, so would it be better to not load randomly & order them by Difficulty as the default option?
A Watch-Later option is something I will do for sure but its also not the highest priority but a nice feature that will for sure come.
The Tag loading problem might happen because I didn’t scale up the server very high at the moment for cost saving reasons during the test phase. This should resolve itself when I scale up the Server & databases at a later point. I agree that there are a lot of tags but there are also a lot of different Videos on the platform already & they will only expand. Maybe I can consolidate some at a later point & remove the ones that only have very few videos.
I like the Calendar progress tracking suggestion. I will add that!
Hmm, I see your point that you could just use my platform to discover the Videos & then watch them on Youtube but that is a general problem I guess. But what the platform is offering isn’t necessarily the content but aggregation, discoverability & curation and some people just might not value that. So if I offer unlimited watch-time in the free tier it might not be sustainable as a business because Progress tracking alone isn’t a selling point in my opinion. The problem on the Free tier also would be that it would be Ad-supported & that doesn’t really make a lot of money unless you go overboard with them. Currently you make $0.00025 to $0.002 per banner ad impression which isn’t a lot & I only planned to add some ads into the Video browse page & a small banner into the Videoplayer so I don’t think I would be able to recoup even only the cost on a free tier user. But nothing is decided yet so I might just have to go with it anyway to get people to use the app.
Yea subscription fatigue is a huge problem right now, especially for SaaS businesses. That’s why i would probably aim between 2-4$/month for the premium version. Also Dreaming & CiJapanese are for sure competitors but only in one language so I think there is still a lot of value in my Service. Also I don’t see the free Youtube Videos as a big competitor because the core of the business isn’t the content itself (not yet at least, I hope I can produce some later).
Well, the Ads on the page would only be banner ads because it’s illegal to play preroll Ads on embedded Youtube videos. But I like the Idea of setting them as the TL