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I wrote a really short review on my blog: https://www.tomasmartty.com/hooked-by-nir-eyal-with-ryan-hoo...


Hey thanks for checking it out. It's a web app.

Yes, Feedly and Pocket was what I used before Monocle too, they're awesome. You can use Monocle on mobile too but it's not optimized for it, since I believe you shouldn't be reading the news or your online content on the phone but rather more confortably on a computer. Yet, the possibility exists if you want to.

Also, since you mentioned Pocket, I made a companion browser extension for Monocle which allows you to save articles to read later. So basically merging Feedly and Pocket into one app.


Nice! Congrats!

Pricing is pretty cheap imo, why don't you try doubling prices? You might double income just like that..


Cheap indeed it is, but I guess that matches the target audience. IPTV is relatively cheap, and the service my tool offers is really a bonus and not a must.

More importantly, I don't think I would pay more than I am currently charging my users, so I think it's just fair. Also, I prefer a whole lot of small payments than a couple of big ones, and for now that seems to be going in the right direction.


I have an app that also went for $1 for a bit. People who are willing to pay $1 also pay $2.

If this was my app, I'd simplify the pricing a lot. Get rid of the free tier. People who aren't willing to pay for your service should go somewhere else. Instead, give people a free trial for 30 days or whatever.

I'd make it so:

$2 = mixture of your current Amateur + Pro, maybe call it "Basic"

$5 = "Pro" with all features

Simple is good. You don't need 4 tiers if your target audience is kinda price sensitive. 2 is enough.


I would consider not trusting your intuition when it comes to pricing.


I think this is good advice, but then I also think the current pricing is fair for what it does. If it did a lot more, then it could be priced higher.

I mean compare to say Spotify. Up to six people in a household can listen in their cars and any phone and any computer to any music pretty much, in fantastic quality with lots of features, for what $15 a month. Now that is worth $15 a month, as it's delivering actual content. That is a lot more value than an (admittedly compelling) editor that I just use to edit some preferences essentially.


Thanks man, appreciate it!


That's a nice system you got in place for you there. Those worksheets of yours may be useful to someone out there. I'd consider bundling them together and selling them at a low price. Or just offer some for free to see if there's some interest, just like I shared this one.

Of course I imagine yours to be quite more elaborate and thought out probably; this one was put together in just a few minutes for a very specific and narrow purpose.

PS: ONE Thing is a great book.


Looks awesome!

Here's the repo btw: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits/


That would be interesting to see... it's a good point you make for the effort of entering the data BUT if you look at it from another perspective, actually entering the data is a way of showing and telling yourself 'look, you did it, you're doing great'. Otherwise it ends up being a dull dashboard you sometimes look at and maybe analyze. Which method is better it depends on the person I believe.


Good point. I wonder if one way around that is to have the output be your screen saver on your devices. It would be automatically update regularly without human intervention.


I wanted to allow edditing the actual habits and the days for people to draw and stuff but I didn't notice you can't give specific permissions to tab creation so yeah... now it's read only.


I'm getting my feet wet on ProductHunt too if you'd like to show some love over there https://www.producthunt.com/posts/youtube-open-tabs-total-ti...


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