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Congratulations ffurnier, this looks like a really monumentous project. I want to echo the comments made by thescholaryowl. Your project has a potential however it needs lot of work in marketing. I see that you have so much functionality however it is not presented in easily digestable way. May be check other no-code tools companies and copy their websites and pricing filling the details of your tool. May be join startupschool.org and pair pu with someone good at marketing. If you finish the program you will get server credits which will ease your infrastructure costs.

By the way are you doing this full time? you said you started after you were laid off from your previous job did you find another job?

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Thanks for the feedback newusertoday, it is much appreciated. Good idea about startupschool, I did the session a while back (it was not continuous back then). I should enrol again. I am in the pairing program but so far no good match.

About the infrastructure costs, I am not too worried, the platform is already profitable. By that I mean the costs this year have been covered by the few subscribed customers. I am far from having enough to pay myself and a lot is due to the hyper-optimisation of the infrastructure design, but I am quite proud of that.

I am working on it more than full time, have been for the past 7 years. Losing my job back then was very painful, and I have not been able to bring myself to take another job in that field. My last employment turned out to be a very toxic place, and you won't find it on any of my CV or public profiles. I like better working for myself, even if it does not pay so far. I enjoyed immensely architecting this project. To earn a living, I moved in a remote location as I could not afford rent in the city and I have been taking the odd jobs, from fixing computers and gardening to woodworking and house maintenance.