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Susanne Ertlleft a comment
Interestingly, my first users paid before I even had a free tier — the login was the paywall. That told me the pain point was real. I later moved toward freemium to accelerate growth. More people experiencing the product led to much stronger word-of-mouth. Turns out access matters as much as value. 😄
How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?
Susanne Ertlleft a comment
Haven’t launched on PH yet, but I’m already seeing how much of the work happens before anything is visible. It’s easy to focus on the launch moment, but most of the real progress clearly happens earlier. Thanks for sharing this ☀️.
1 Launch, 2 Co-Founders, 3 Awards: How we prepared for Product Hunt
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Susanne Ertlleft a comment
I’ve noticed prioritizing gets tricky when it’s not just work vs work, but work vs life. What helps me is writing everything down first, even small things, and then deciding fresh each day what actually matters. Some days it’s “fix a bug”, other days it’s “remember to drink water before the headache kicks in”.
What are your best productivity hacks that worked for you?
Susanne Ertlleft a comment
I’ve run into something similar, just in a different context. Writing. It wasn’t really about discipline or tracking. It was more that the tools didn’t match how the process actually works. For me, the hardest part was having too many ideas for improvements and getting pulled into details. I had to keep stepping back and refocusing on the bigger picture. I’m actually glad that happened though,...
First-time builder working on a focus tool
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Susanne Ertlleft a comment
From what I’ve seen, the real challenge is often getting from a vague idea to something structured enough to work with. Once that’s there, tools (including AI) become much more effective. Curious how you approach that step — do you try to structure first or generate something to react to?
Most AI writing tools are solving the wrong problem
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Hi from a writer who ended up building a tool
Hi! I'm Susanne – author, editor, and the person behind ALIES Author. I kept seeing the same thing: writers with great ideas, stuck halfway through. Not because they couldn't write. Because nothing fit the way they actually work. ALIES is scene-based – that's the core. The guidance and structure adapt to how you write. Just your story, your voice. Excited to be here! Any other writers here who...