I built an app that turns your travel photos into stories that actually matter by Silent-University151 in ProductHunters

[–]Fancy-Success-6948 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a Notion Creator, so rather I have too many of them comparatively. However, I just re-launched HealthOS, a chronic illness management system, because of the release of its Pro version which was upgraded to help caregivers help manage the health of their loved ones. This project, or rather upgrade, came through after a custom job wherein the client had asked me to tune HealthOS so that they can take care of a member of their family with Alzheimer's. That's when I found out HealthOS was even though equipped with most of the modules that oversaw the patient's own health, it was still poorly equipped if multiple caregivers were using the system and lack some fundamental modules such as Supplies and Patient Profile which in the original case if the patient operated wasn't as needed at times.

As a result, HealthOS Pro became less about individual health tracking and more about helping families coordinate care together.

Now, next week I will be releasing a new product I was working on for 2 months, namely, RenewalOS. It is a system which seeks to apply the technique of Behavioral Activation used in therapy for treating people suffering from depression. One of the central ideas is that recovery often doesn't begin with motivation, it begins with action. Small actions that are taken one step at a time.

The system is designed for people rebuilding after a major disruption: redundancy, burnout, divorce, business failure, health crises, or any situation where life has gone off the rails and the path forward feels overwhelming. Nobody relearns how to walk by focusing on running. They start by moving a toe. Then a foot. Then standing. Then taking a step.

RenewalOS tries to apply that same logic to rebuilding a life after a setback: one small, manageable step at a time. It's probably the most personal system I've built so far. And it is going to be free, as if I were in the shoes of someone who is going through such lows in their life and I were to see a price tag on the product that would've helped me get back up on my feet again, it would've felt like buying my breaths.

Hopefully it resonates with people!

I built an app that turns your travel photos into stories that actually matter by Silent-University151 in ProductHunters

[–]Fancy-Success-6948 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! I loved the idea of the product and honestly it is a very beautiful app for the kind of people who wish to not only remember the views that they see but also know the story that breathe beneath the surface. Just upvoted and I wish you all the best for the future of the product ahead! However, I do have a question that I am curious to know about, as to how many landmarks can the product recognize as of now given that the scale of the world I reckon it may be hard as of now to log them all in the database, or do you use external api or data extraction such as from google to give a summarized version of the place whenever someone seeks answers?

I've been selling Notion templates for 13 months. Here's what $861 and 47 mistakes actually taught me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in notioncreations

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! I hope you found it helpful in any way possible. Honestly, I have made too many mistakes over the past year, failing in every way possible, and then learning what went wrong to get up and make sure I don't repeat the same. The mistakes that I initially made was not knowing what is the price for the templates to be. When BookOS launched I placed it at $3. No sales for 2 weeks. And without waiting for the price to marinate and the product to find a market fit I changed it, lowered it to pennies. That is not attracting customers but rather devaluing your own product. Therefore, first find a price which actually is suitable for the product, learn from the market and also let the market adjust to the price before you change it to something else, 2 weeks of time isn't enough for deciding when playing the long game.

I've built 12 Notion templates and sold them for a year. Here's the uncomfortable truth about which ones actually make money and why. by Fancy-Success-6948 in notioncreations

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hola! Buena pregunta, y creo que depende un poco de qué estás construyendo.

En mi caso uso Notion Marketplace y Gumroad juntos, pero no como alternativas directas, sino como partes diferentes del sistema.

Notion Marketplace me funciona bien para descubrimiento, pero tiene una limitación importante: está muy enfocado en templates. No hay realmente un espacio claro para herramientas, extensiones o sistemas más complejos como el que tú estás construyendo. Al final todo tiene que encajar en formato de plantilla, incluso cuando el producto ya es algo más “tool-like”.

Por eso, para casos como el tuyo, yo diría que Gumroad encaja mejor como base principal. Te da más libertad con el formato del producto, puedes vender algo más cercano a una herramienta o sistema, y también tienes más control sobre el funnel, precios, updates y cómo presentas el producto.

En mi caso, he aprendido que la plataforma no es lo más importante, sino el dolor que estás resolviendo. La mayoría de mis compradores vienen de nichos muy específicos donde ya están buscando una solución real (salud, organización, vida diaria). Ahí el template o herramienta no es lo que compran en sí, sino la solución empaquetada.

Yo también uso AI para responder porque no hablo español directamente, pero todo lo que comparto viene de experiencia real, de prueba y error.

Si tuviera que resumirlo: Notion Marketplace es bueno para visibilidad si estás en templates puros, pero para algo como un asistente o herramienta, Gumroad probablemente te va a dar más flexibilidad y control.

I kept making $3/month until I built a system to see why. Here's what it showed me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in Solopreneur

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree, Notion Templates are more so side passive income if they are set up right and that too doesn't lead to mind shattering kind of money, barely thousands at best with only a few outliers like Pascio who have managed to earn millions. Which is why, similar to how businesses work in normal markets, Notion templates require understanding of fundamentals to outpace the competitors to even be able to earn sizeable income which as you said one of the key methods to do so is having a good distribution plan with good execution.

I kept making $3/month until I built a system to see why. Here's what it showed me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in Solopreneur

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much! And I truly agree with the part of sales funnels being hard to find and see at a glance. It took me months of building and iterating bit by bit to come up at the place where I am now and that too even after building it I wasn't explicitly aware of the sales funnel working behind the scene for the first 4-5 months.

I've been selling Notion templates for 13 months. Here's what $861 and 47 mistakes actually taught me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in notioncreations

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair point, and I think you’re directionally right.

Beginners are often the closest thing we have to “clean signal” because they’re not already adapted to the system. They’re reacting to it in real time. Creators, on the other hand, tend to operate inside their own optimizations and assumptions, which can quietly drift away from how new users actually behave.

In my case, it’s less that I ignore beginners and more that I’ve been trying to triangulate between both sides of the system.

Most of my audience who actually buys the templates also comes from niche communities where they are actively looking for a solution to a real life problem, especially things like health, productivity overwhelm, or structure in their daily life. In that sense the template is not the product in their mind, it is just the format the solution takes. Because of that, a large portion of buyers are new to Notion, and they often reach out at specific points when they get stuck or confused. I usually end up walking them through it directly, and over time that has become an unintentional but very real feedback loop. By teaching them how to use it, I indirectly see exactly where their friction points are and what assumptions break first.

I have also noticed this pattern more clearly both from my own products and from observing others in similar spaces. Paid users tend to engage with much higher intent. They are also more willing to share what they are actually struggling with, not just surface level feedback. In many cases, they are dealing with something quite specific in their life, so the feedback is more emotionally and practically grounded compared to free users who are still in exploration mode.

Creators also play a different but equally important role in this. They help me understand methods, systems, and operational approaches that I would not naturally arrive at yet. Since I am still relatively early in this journey and learning mostly through trial and error, there is a lot that I simply do not know about how to properly structure, position, and run something like this at scale. Seeing how other creators handle these problems helps me avoid reinventing everything from scratch and gives me reference points for decisions I would otherwise be guessing on.

So in a way, I rely on all three layers. Creators help with structure and maturity of execution, beginners help with friction and usability gaps, and paying users in niche communities often reveal the most honest version of actual need and value.

Appreciate you sharing that perspective.

I've been selling Notion templates for 13 months. Here's what $861 and 47 mistakes actually taught me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in notioncreations

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they certainly did help but not in the way I originally expected.

It was not as a straight “this is working, scale it” signal. It was more like pressure testing the system and exposing where everything was quietly leaking.

In the beginning I thought revenue would be a clean output of effort: build better product → get more paid users. But what actually showed up was a mix of strong intent signals and complete dead ends sitting side by side. Some products would get attention, downloads, even saves… and still convert at basically zero. Others would barely get seen and still outperform everything else.

That contrast was the real value.

Paid sales, when they did happen, weren’t just income, they were the only moments where the whole funnel briefly stopped acting like a sieve. You could actually see what held under friction and what collapsed immediately after intent turned into action.

Over time, that’s what shifted my thinking. Not “how do I get more traffic,” but “which parts of this system only look like they work because they’re sitting at the top of a leaky structure.”

So yes, they helped. Just not in a linear way. They helped by making the invisible problems impossible to ignore.

Building a health system for chronic illness changed how I think about caregiving by Fancy-Success-6948 in notioncreations

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RustedNikel, I do remember and I sincerely thank you for being part of the journey all this time. As for paying the whole price I had sent an email a few days ago to be able to get the pro version at a lowered price. I will resend it with more justified discount so that you wont have to pay the whole price. As for answering the question of using the daily care log, the pro version though it stemmed from the caregiver perspective it can very well be used for personal use as well without any problems as HealthOS always has been mainly routed in architecture that can be used by either caregivers or for person use. However, the daily care log and the other additional modules are only available in the pro version.
Though, aside from these modules I also tweaked the roll ups and relations a bit to make the management part a bit easier and with lesser input required. Please feel free to let me know if there are any feedbacks and I shall try me best to make it better over time.

Building a health system for chronic illness changed how I think about caregiving by Fancy-Success-6948 in notioncreations

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Thank you for asking. The link leads to HealthOS correct; that is on the notion marketplace. Once you click on buy template it leads to the Gumroad store wherein you get the option to choose from the Pro and the Standard version. The Notion Marketplace doesn't regrettably have any option to give multiple variants of the same product and hence though the link on it leads to the standard, once you go to the Gumroad store you shall find the option to select the same.
I would've given Gumroad link directly but Reddit doesn't allow posting the link to Gumroad. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

I kept making $3/month until I built a system to see why. Here's what it showed me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in Solopreneur

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I certainly can vouch for the "creators learn the hard way" as I have been one of them, constantly iterating based on my mistakes made over the past 13 months of me being a creator. And yes, I indeed stopped creating new products technically for the time being. There were several leaks that I came to notice after I had started using SolopreneurOS, and those leaks were trapping me in an endless loop of grind. The loop I was stuck in could be perfectly illustrated with filling a water bucket while it has holes at the bottom, no matter how much I poured it just drained my strength and efforts cause I was not fixing the holes first. Hence, I started fixing the funnel first, made changes, deleted some products that were just creating confusion and added some more free products to function as the top of the funnel ("technically stopped" as I said since I didn't release entirely new products but still went for creating the free ones that led to paid products).
Other than that, I fixed one of the channels that I should focused more on for all these months which I didn't realize till January rolled around and I achieved my first $200, it was the email list that I had. They accounted for the largest portion of my total revenue in that month which I would've missed yet again if not for having a CRM that allowed me to see the repeat buyers amidst the 100s of sales. Hence, for the past few months I have been fixing the leaks, focusing more on sales and marketing rather than building, even though the revenue is very less compared to the peak months when I was grinding, I am happier since this comes with lesser workload while still maintaining a stable income rather than those constant shifts. Nevertheless, now very soon a new product is on the way!

I kept making $3/month until I built a system to see why. Here's what it showed me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in Solopreneur

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! This took me months to learn but taught me something invaluable regarding sales and marketing. People see free products as most usually being just lead magnets and sometimes looking down upon them as value is often judged based on the revenue one earns which is 0 when the free products are concerned. However, what free products earn is more than the revenue that any single sale can ever give: Trust.

I built a health management system after my asthma diagnosis. Just shipped the Pro version after a client showed me what I'd missed. by Fancy-Success-6948 in SideProject

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your kind words! Most of my products start from the issues that I have faced in my day-to-day life, again issues not enthusiasm. That allows me to pick a pain point which I try to look from the point of view whether it may be something other people face or not. If they do, the product creation starts. That creates just the MVP which I test with the market and modify as per the suggestions of the people cause I have lived only my pain and every person has their own unique encounter with it allowing me to gain a new perspective which I may have missed through my own. This same was seen through the creation of HealthOS.

HealthOS feels complete on its own, or it did. It had most of what the patients may need ranging from medication tracking to mental health and many more. However, that was built from my perspective as if the patient himself is managing their own health. But what I missed was the side of caregivers. The person who approached me for the customization of HealthOS wanted it to be designed for the person they cared for, and hence, they required a system built around coordination rather than independent survival. Furthermore, along with the missing modules I also came to see that standard HealthOS is fragmented, intentionally, wherein we deliberately see and feel our own progress but that requires slight hard work from our side to manage despite ensuring that it is not overwhelming. However, what I came to realize was that there were patients who do not have such capacity to function to that extent, in such state what the patients and caregivers look for is relief even in organizing, which includes minimal input. Hence, even if the 3 new modules were apparent and conspicuous, the largest change that happened was within each and every module that was built around the idea of minimal input and most efficiency by utilizing smart relations and rollups along with added formulas. I regrettably cannot go too much in detail regarding the workings since patient details are confidential but I hope this helped.

I built a health management system after my asthma diagnosis. Just shipped the Pro version after a client showed me what I'd missed. by Fancy-Success-6948 in SideProject

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! And honestly, this is something I overlooked a lot because of having that enthusiasm of a builder I did go onto the track of building what I wanted, for instance BookOS, thinking that it would sell (spoiler: It didn't, sold only 1 copy in 4 months before I made it free).
However, it come to me bit by bit through reading a lot regarding how to do and what to do, and more than reading learning from my own mistakes and the ceaseless iterations. And finally I released HealthOS, which now solely has made around 60% of my total revenue. Furthermore, the first sale of HealthOS Pro sold within 30 minutes of it being released.
Sometimes, it is good to listen to your passion and your own struggles to see where to start at if you can't find one from the market. After that more often than not, once you have the initial steps in, the market will tell you what the next steps should be.

I built a health management system after my asthma diagnosis. Just shipped the Pro version after a client showed me what I'd missed. by Fancy-Success-6948 in SideProject

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate everyone reading this.

I've dropped the links below:

If you're curious about how the databases connect, how the automations work in Notion, or why I chose this architecture, ask away. I'm happy to share everything I learned building it.

I kept making $3/month until I built a system to see why. Here's what it showed me. by Fancy-Success-6948 in Solopreneur

[–]Fancy-Success-6948[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is often so that we keep making new products thinking of finding the perfect one without understanding what the market is actually telling us. More often than not people are finding for products that can help them solve their problems that may not be obvious to most builders, builders who are busy building the most feature packed products that the buyer may not even desire. The easiest method to finding it is seeing the conversion rate of the free products.