Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?
I launched BromBone a few months ago. About 150 people signed up and tried it at least once. Most of them never came back after that. No one ever paid.<p>A few weeks ago, I refocused BromBone into a subset of what it was before. I've already got a handful of paid accounts and I expect a few more soon. I'm not rich yet, but some people paying is way better than no one paying. There is hope this time.<p>For BromBone, I think there are two main things that have made the difference:<p>1) The first version of the service would make developer's lives a little easier but still leaves a lot of development for them to do. The new version completely eliminates a pain for them with very little work on their part.<p>The first version could have been helpful to a lot of different people. I thought a bigger market would be better. Instead it meant:
* I couldn't focus on one community
* I had to try to market to communities I didn't really understand
* It fix half of a lot of people's problems, but didn't completely fix anyone's<p>2) The new version has a landing page that looks more like a traditional SaaS landing page. I tried to go my own way to much with the previous landing page. I'm not a designer, and I didn't pull it off. I think the new landing page looks more legit to people and makes them more likely to recommend it to their boss.<p>--<p>BromBone v1 was a "Headless Browser as a Service".  
BromBone v2 is "Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website Crawlable by Google".
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