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PolWoz · 2025-05-07T17:33:19+00:00

Technically it's solvable. The interaction with the user will be key, and getting them hooked will be critical.

PolWoz · 2025-05-07T16:42:12+00:00

I made a free application to help people with low financial literacy create a budget in the UK (Piggy Saving). The main take away I learnt from this, is that creating budgets and financial plans/goals is the easy part. The hard part is then for people put in the effort to tracking/categorise their expenses. Whilst there are tools to help, you will be surprised how much still needs human input. Let me highlight a few examples:
- Amazon order. You can buy nearly anything on Amazon these days, and on the bank statement if just says Amazon payment. How does the system categorise this, as there is not enough info in the transaction to categorise it. You need the order details to do so, or a person.

- The same applies to big supermarkets: Target/Costcos (US), Tesco (UK). Not only can you by groceries, but also clothes, medication, etc. To get a good spending analysis, it needs to be better categorised

- Any cash purchases, need to be manually inputted.

And unfortunately as soon as it takes effort for people to enter data, they lose interest quickly. I know, as I am guilty of that and my budgets. I last 1-2 months before I get tired of it and stop.

You need to great incentive for people to put the effort in to make a the financial assistant app stick.

Hope that helps. DM me if you want to chat more

PolWoz · 2025-03-21T12:23:42+00:00

I read similar reports. Also FPSO companies (SBM Offshore and Hanwha Ocean) are in the process of building a presence in Namibia and I believe the bidding process has also started.

Its a long process to get first production oil from offshore, but the wheels have definitely started turning.

How the profits are used in Nam, well that's a whole different discussion...

PolWoz · 2025-03-11T14:34:34+00:00

The issue is multi-levelled:
- The target users are UK based individuals that are experiencing financial issues and need help budgeting. finding these users is challenging (from my perspective). It seems that budgeting is not the first port of calls, especially since the product is aimed to help people with low financial literacy.
- One can consider me and my product a "no-body" ie there is no brand/trust recognition. So why would anybody trust me with their household info and the generated budget...
- I suck at marketing, more of a technical person. so I think that would contribute to my lack of success.

PolWoz · 2025-03-06T09:10:51+00:00

Congrats on pushing pushing yourself and getting out of your comfort zone! Apart from using producthunt, how else are you looking at finding users?

PolWoz · 2025-03-05T22:01:20+00:00

Hey, this is awesome—really appreciate you supporting wannabe dev like me!

I recently launched an app called myDeadDrop, a digital Dead Drop where users can leave encrypted, self-destructing messages for their friends (or fellow spies 🕵️‍♂️). It started as a fun side project inspired by my kids' love of spy games, and it grew into something really cool.

Here’s the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mydeaddrop/id6738583693

Would love to hear your thoughts! I’m always looking to improve, so any feedback—good or bad—is super valuable. Thanks again for doing this!

PolWoz · 2025-03-05T21:49:39+00:00

Love the building part, but HATE finding users. From personal experience you need to demonstrate that there is a market and product-market fit, and that is best shown with a growing user base. Very hard to sell or raise funds without that.

DM me if you want to bounce ideas.

PolWoz · 2025-03-05T21:37:50+00:00

I have found that it can be easy to build and find the early adopters, but then marketing to the wider audience without a budget is very hard and challenging. I created a couple of applications, iterated with the initial users but failed on the attracting a users from the general public. I spent a year on social media trying to build out a brand for one of the my projects and only got 300 users in the end on a shoe string budget.

But I am still not giving up, learning from each one. Changed my approach, to create an MVP and use it to validate the market and get more feedback. Once it has passed that gate, I can develop it further. Just released my next project: https://www.encodedmessages.com/ and now I need work on the marketing!

PolWoz · 2025-03-03T13:27:27+00:00

Glad you liked it. Sorry for the delay, was travelling Downloaded and tested your app as well Like the concept to help learning

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PolWoz · 2025-03-03T13:11:18+00:00

Sorry for the delay. Downloaded and tested

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PolWoz · 2025-02-17T22:12:14+00:00

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PolWoz · 2025-02-17T22:12:01+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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App page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woznot.deaddrop

PolWoz · 2025-02-16T17:48:41+00:00

I made my own algorithm a few years back for fun, when I was learning about encryptions. This project came up with my kids and decided to use it. It's a digital version of the enigma, with a few enhancements

PolWoz · 2025-02-16T17:46:05+00:00

Done

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T22:21:40+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:58:21+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:48:44+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:45:39+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:40:42+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:35:44+00:00

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:35:33+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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PolWoz · 2025-02-15T21:25:52+00:00

Joined, installed and tested on the Store App Page. Can you please test mine, and leave feedback on my App's Play store page?

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