Our Revamped Vision:
Our journey with AppSumo has been incredibly enlightening, as it gave us a clear understanding of our users’ needs and identified areas where we can deliver transformational value.
Echoing your votes, we aim to become an AI agent capable of integrating with various apps and becoming a real Virtual Assistant accessible from anywhere! Simultaneously, we aspire to be a community-driven platform where the best templates from the experts are accessible to all.
We are not ignorant of the fact that OpenAI and Antrophic are building commendable user-facing apps. However, we believe in offering competitive options to our users rather than competing with them (offering multiple model for different purposes).
We also are betting on the improving quality of Open Source LLMs, along with their flexible privacy policies and less moderated capabilities.
While a large portion of our budget and time is being poured into the product, we have some appetizing tactics cooking up in Marketing to maintain our MRR growth:-
- We are fine-tuning our affiliate platform integration. Our affiliates (hopefully many of you guys) are expected to earn around 40% and those who sign up using an affiliate link can enjoy a 10% off on recurring MRR subscription plans (so everyone wins).
- We are updating our free plan! Unlimited access will be provided to GPT 3.5 turbo, template creation, and usage of our template libraries. But exclusive features such as attachment features, non-GPT 3.5 turbo models, and image creation will be reserved for paid plans. We want even our free users to enjoy some of our features and help us spread the word via template and chat sharing.
- Free users will enjoy a 14-day free trial of the basic paid plan. This strategy aims to entice free users to subscribe to a paid plan.
- We will test the affiliate marketing channel, but we also plan to drive traffic through different channels such as AI tool directories and SEO. Plus, we’ve drawn a decent amount of traffic via OpenRouter, our multi-model provider, and we remain in the top 20 . We encourage all of you to use our tool daily because that helps us stay visible there.
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Now, let’s dive into the product section!
We are allocating our resources in the following way:
- 30% to Bug fixing
- 30% to Feature improvement
- 40% to New features
If it seems like we aren’t releasing as many new features, it’s because we want to ensure whatever we’re building keeps getting better.
We’re just 10 days away from releasing the template sharing feature. We hope you find it as useful as the chat sharing feature; it’s basically a shareable recipe explaining how to use an optimized prompt for a particular task.
After that, we’ll be working simultaneously on the following features:
-> GPT-4V (we know we don’t have the API right now but we’re confident it will release soon and we want to be prepared to deploy it really quick)
->Straico’s API (we’ll soon begin probing for your ideas on how you envision the API so we can define the requirements together)
-> Supporting multiple attachments within one chat assistant
-> Folders for templates
Subsequent to these, we’ll shift our focus to:
-> Search bar for chats
-> Support for different file extensions
-> Character generation
-> Templates will have a preferred model for your templates
And last but not least:
-> Minimizing templates like Google Mail emails.
-> Users can define their own global preferred LLM
-> Dalle-3 integration
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These plans might undergo minor changes, but they set a pretty straightforward course and, you can check how this is going on in here: https://trello.com/b/f6tsuMaE/straicos-board-minor-fixes-improvements
Beyond this, I’m digging into technical proof-of-concepts for integrating Straico’s AI chat assistant with Google Calendar and Google Mail. I aim to utilize our chat assistant to fetch my pending emails, assist with replies, and manage my event scheduling and updates.
Also, Rodrigo is working on technical proof-of-concepts deploying our own image generation server using SageMaker that will allow us to deploy open source fine tuning over SDXL.
Your feedback is crucial, your thoughts invaluable. Let us know your perception of our plan, or if there’s something vital we’re missing or if you know some clever routes for marketing Straico. Ultimately, we want to keep growing, keep delivering real value amid this rapid-paced AI evolution
Hope you all have a fantastic week!
