I visited your website and thought it is way more complicated/versatile than I expected. You even have added a dark mode. You are so passionate about this project, and you must have learned a lot in this journey.

However, I have several questions as follows:

1. If I am not wrong you started with two categories (movies and TV shows), and then expanded your scope to books, music albums and people without considerable revenue growth. Right? Why?
2. Have you ever talked with your users about the exclusive rewards of being a supporter? Did they think those rewards are attractive enough for a subscription?
3. Can the cost be reduced significantly if there were only the two original categories (movies and TV shows)?
4. Have you ever thought of just using an embedding to represent an entity (titles, people, etc.), instead of the heavy text based Elasticsearch? Or you simply just use its vector search?

Wish you the best to find your way out.

For me, I interpret this problem as How did you find what problem you wanted to solve. I have been facing a problem for several years myself and cannot find a usable solution, then I just want to realize one. That’s my vision.

Thank you! That’s really helpful! I’ll just follow your advice after the coming major release.

Me. I started my business a year ago, and I am still struggling for my first customer. No enough money to hire anyone. I am pretty slow all by myself and still have many things to learn, especially marketing and designing. Much harder than I thought as a NLP engineer a year ago.

Me. I started my business a year ago, and I am still struggling for my first customer. No enough money to hire anyone. I am pretty slow all by myself and still have many things to learn, especially marketing and designing. Much harder than I thought as a NLP engineer a year ago.

When your passion is gone and you give up.