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Ours is bit different from about.me, we provide a complete white glove solution which means we manage everything, you just need to notify me.

I also understand the fact that indie businesses tends to go out very soon but I have developed it in such a way so that it can operate at extremely low cost. HieFyi is going to say alive for pretty long even if we don't get enough customers. Feel to have a look again.

Also the pricing in introductory will change after we gain traction but the price won't change for early adopters. Even in future the price would be significantly lower than about.me and Linktr.ee

I don't need to look again, I told you my opinion. You're on to something, but $20 is too much when the future of the product is uncertain.

@blakehunsicker the $20 fees is yearly, about.me is $6 monthly. Do you still think it's expensive?

@kaknut that's a good question. For me, it's too much. I'm not the average customer, though -- I like building my own sites.

I don't know if your idea to combine a universal profile page with email is going to catch on or not, but now you're competing with about.me/linktr.ee (and others), and with free/expensive email. I think you might lose a lot of customers to one or the other. A yearly charge is a large commitment. Maybe if you charge $2 or $3/month for your service you'll be more convincing, because it'll be easier to compare yourself with about.me and Hey, and it doesn't look so outrageous when compared with free email.

Do you have a demo of the email inbox on your site? I didn't see it.

@blakehunsicker We actually do have a monthly plan for $2.99, it's just not listed in the page (will add it tomorrow).

Actually we don't provide an inbox you can simply use our service to forward email or use Yahoo mail or Gmail for receiving and sending mails.

[Update] Keeping your suggestion in mind I did made monthly available on the website for everyone.

@kaknut Ah cool. What makes your forwarding service different from me just going into Gmail settings and forward emails myself? In your defense, it's a pain to set up forwarding -- I haven't been in gmail settings in years, but I remember it being pretty difficult to set up.

@blakehunsicker if you just need email forwarding then you need not do anything, it will be done from our end.

You would only have to bear the pain if you wish to send mail from @hie.fyi, receiving is easily managed.