Hi all,

I built a simple posture monitor that runs in the browser. Why? Because my neck pain has gotten to epic proportions, and this not making me happy.

Finally put it online today, so if you want to try it out, here it is: https://posturemonitorapp.com.

No installation, no signup, none of that BS. Just go to the URL and start monitoring. Yeah, it's free.

If you do use it, please do let me know what you think. I'd love to know what I can do to improve it.

Thanks!

Farez

3 months ago I built and launched ClarifyPDF.com, a "chat with PDF" app, mainly to learn how to build a chatbot, and to learn what's it like to launch a SaaS around this type of GPT app. I share my lessons and observations in this post.

Thanks for that.

What about it being $2 is going to bring abusers?

Thanks everyone for your input. More than anything, it's been really great at making look at the bigger pricing picture.

My conclusion:

I'm not going to put in a free tier, because as @brudgers mentioned below, if they can't spend $1.99 to try it, then they're not my target market.

So, in words I read somewhere else before, instead of downgrading my product, I should upgrade my customers.

I will instead spend time creating a high quality product.

And slowly raise prices as I improve the product.

Thanks again, everyone.

This is what I'm debating too. Thanks.

I like the cookie idea. Thanks.

You've put in words what's been in my gut. Thank you.

Hmm, some interesting suggestions there. Thanks!

Captcha is a good one and easy to implement for now. Will do that.

Sorry, to be more precise, "same document" could mean the same content but in different formats. OR just slightly tweaked to result in a different hash each time. Harder to abuse for sure, but still has holes.

Any sufficiently-determined (and smart enough) user will find a way around any such check; this is just meant to make it a bit harder to do the wrong thing so that some people will stop trying...

Sure.. but at some point you've got a diminished return on efforts to stop users. 99% of abusers won't work around the limits.

use a cheap algo to detect % similarity?

BTW, the web app is at https://clarifypdf.com, if you need to see what it is first.

Beautiful typography, I must say! Is it built on React or NodeJS?

Thank you. That's just an off-the-shelf template from https://tailwindui.com!