Comment by alexhans

Thanks for the insights.

You don't change your priorities based on my opinion but adding an RSS should be quite easy as it's just an auto-generated XML.

I don't have any concrete answers but some things to consider:

- Are you really targeting unknown people who stumble onto your site? Why not literally try to see if the parents of your daughter's school would like it? What's a payment plan or type they'd be willing to consider to justify the product subscription or purchase. What's the real barrier at this stage? They might not use it even if free? (Discoverability) Or is it cost/the model for the perceived value?

> Since I’m self-funding the API costs, I can't afford big ad spends.

I'd be very careful with ad spends without talking to a trusted person who has gone through the journey and forced you to ask the right questions about expectations and the path to get there. Being very harsh on your pitches/answers might get you to different decisions.

One invariant in marketing is networking and audience. If you have it already, you can leverage it and they can help you expand. If you don't have it, how do you build it overtime without feeling unseen? I think that's a lot of market study at the personal level.

> If you have any advice on organic growth for a tool that's intentionally designed to be "harder" (more friction) than the competition, I’d love to hear it.

Who do you think would resonate with this and agree that your product meets that goal?