There's SaaS hosting. Long term (2027+ ?), the idea is that inactive blogs (those that don't get comments) pay 1? 2? EUR / month. Then, one wouldn't need to feel stressed up about having an inactive blog — it'd cost about the same as the domain name.
Previously on HN: (as you can see, I've been working on this for a while — had another job in between, and, sleepiness health problems, making things take longer, plus, being generally clueless in the beginning)
- Show HN: New embedded comments, open-source, new features, alt to Disqus and Talk, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15242630 (1 comment, 2017)
- New open source Disqus alternative: Debiki Embedded Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205878 (9 comments, 2014)
- Show HN: A better discussion system. For blogs, forums, perhaps sites like HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4823103 (7 comments, 2012)
Biz model isn't really blog comments — instead, it's forum software and B2B (the software works for forums too). But blogs are fun :-) and I need blog comments myself, so much to write about. Made in Sweden. No ads, no tracking.
imiric•9mo ago
Though I still like Slashdot's voting system the most. Granular votes for specific categories: informative, insightful, offtopic, etc. Limited amount of votes per user, and IIRC the vote quota increases with rank/karma.
BTW, there's a typo on your Pricing page: "The more interesting commets first", and the links under "Old plans" return 404. Though I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page, and removing all the "later" features.
KajMagnus•9mo ago
Me too :- ) I'm thinking that if something gets 10 upvotes, and sth else get 10 upvotes and 10 disagree votes, then more often it's the latter that's more interesting to read?
There's also an Unwanted vote, for things that are too off-topic or rude etc, similar to how downvotes work here at HN.
Slashdot's vote system I like too :- ) (Maybe the vote system could be pluggable in the distant future.) — There's also half implemented Do-It votes and Do-Not votes, for ideas and upcoming Joint Decision topic types.
> commets ... and the links under "Old plans" return 404
Oh, thanks! Hadn't noticed. They work from here: www.talkyard.io/pricing (the www subdomain), but from the blog-comments and education subdomains, all those "Old plans" links are broken. (So I'll need to point the links to the www subdomain.)
> I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page,
The pricing page? If you want & have time to write a bit more, that'd be interesting.
(Or if you're too short of time, I guess I can ask someone who works with UX & pricing)
> and removing all the "later" features.
Hmm, someone else has mentioned this too. Maybe there can be a "Show-later" checkbox, default un-ticked.
Thanks for the thoughts & feedback!
imiric•8mo ago
I suppose my main criticism was about the "later" features. It comes off as dishonest to mention features that may be implemented at some point in the future on a page meant to inform potential customers about what they would be paying for _today_. So I would suggest to only promote fully-working features, and leave future features for a roadmap page linked elsewhere.
Other than that I would say that there are a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users. The page looks overloaded with information that is not well structured IMO. It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page? And there are minor visual details like inconsistent font sizes, font weights, and parenthesis usage (e.g. why is "Idle blogs" between bold parenthesis?).
It seems that you're not a native English speaker, and that's fine (neither am I), but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this, as long as you set their tone and review their output.
Good luck!
KajMagnus•8mo ago
Thanks, good to know. (Will fix)
> a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users
Yes! People email and ask about the pricing more often than I thought.
> It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page?
Hmm. Yes, there could be something about "if you want to continue after the free trial".
> It seems that you're not a native English speaker
That's right
> but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this
Ok :- ) First, all the LLMs, then a human I guess.
Thanks for all the ideas. Sorry for the late (8 days) reply.
Just started reading The E-Myth Revisited, hopefully that, plus the sleepiness problem being mostly gone, can put things in better order.
KajMagnus•8mo ago
> Though I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page, and removing all the "later" features.
Now done — all "Later: ..." features are gone, and I did a general revision of the copy on the pricing pages, based on what you wrote, and based on Gemini's and ChatGPT's feedback (when I copy-pasted the HTML into the AI chats — they had many pages feedback).
> These days LLMs can also be helpful with this
They were amazingly helpful. Thanks for suggesting! I'll ask them to review the whole website, like you suggested, some time later too.