Sorry, my question was to @holoduke ... he hadn't told us the app name by the time I asked that question.
Otherwise, I have been causally following yours ever since you announced it on Indie Hackers ... it looks like it is going places but I'm sure COVID hasn't helped things one bit.
Let's keep pushing into the new year and hope for better times!
I have realised that too many people quit early and yet it is clear that their ideas are good. I hope many are inspired by this story, I know I was... inspired to keep on fighting.
I hope that service is mine. I'm really pushing to get more users on board this year.
You have interesting insights, especially about the value deduplication offers. In fact, apps similar to mine charge in the thousands for an annual subscription. I didn't know how much of a pain it was until I released my first paid version last year.
As for the stop words: A significant number of my users either asked for it or presented me with issues that could be solved by removing certain irrelevant text. I don't track usage patterns and such so I added the feature based on this feedback, fully trusting that the users could identify the stop words correctly.
Some of these words might be anything from TLDs to definite articles like "the"; it all depends on the user. Sometimes it's a simple word like "very" or "best", etc., and, based on the data they've shared with me, it looks like the feature was a welcome addition to Flookup.
It used to be way more "restrictive" than that, until yesterday when my unscientific analysis prompted me to make the change to 50. At this level, I felt that many users would be able to get some work done and properly test Flookup at the same time.
Of course there might be some more room for expansion and I'm willing to do it depending on user feedback and more research.
I would never have imagined that there would be visitors who actually dislike those intro pages hehehe! This is enlightening and will definitely affect how (if?) I implement it in future.
The subscription model is especially for those who might not want to own the product forever; like those who want to use it for a couple of months to a year and quit.
Since its launch, I have seen the majority of new subscriptions shift from the monthly to the annual. And now, as of the start of this year, I have seen a bump in the lifetime subscriptions.
The other great thing about subscriptions is that you, the user, get lifetime updates/support/upgrades.
Thanks for the feedback.
I might add a something soon but I'm not anonymous at all. My name and (relevant) story are quite easy to get on the web but I did not want to take away from the product on the website itself.
I see... There are other solutions that claim to use A.I to train or generate models for their their apps. I'm not really sure how effective they are though.
That said, however, Flookup can help you flag dupes quite well. There are many ways I tried to shore up the fact that no algorithm is a one-size-fits all solution.
For example, Flookup allows you to dictate what stop words to remove or combine lookup variables for more specificity or even return the next best match in case the first one isn't to your liking.
All this makes it quite malleable and usable for a case like yours.
It was just meant to give a little bit of my perspective and how it might factor into the question overall.