How's this pitch style on your landing page working out for you? It's breaking most of the conventional rules. Are you seeing customer adoption? I'm always interested in learning new methods of communicating ideas.
It reads like a good documentation and not a sales pitch, which helps a lot. Also, the design is great too, looking almost as simple and beautiful as c2.com. Both of these give off "made by an engineer for engineers" vibes.
Honestly, adoption isn't amazing (ie. not at Raindrop or Readwise levels which I guess is the bar these days in this product area), but I have more than enough subscribers to pay for all the hosting costs.
To be completely honest, even if I didn't have a single paying subscriber I would still happily pay to host it out of pocket (and for a long time, I did) because it is the perfect tool for my own needs and it is so deeply integrated into all written knowledge consumption in my life[1] - I will use it until the day I die (and then my wife will open source it).
[1]: I use it to save comments from HN, Reddit, Twitter etc., I use it to save highlights from web articles, I use it to save/import my Kindle highlights, I use it to highlight parts of newsletters in my email inbox - the list is endless
You'd probably multiply those numbers substantially with a little rearrangement of the content.
Even the pricing is weird. $1.99/month billed annually... Just say $25/year - if people have bought in on the value proposition here they aren't going to run away scared when you hide $23.88 as $1.99.
Also that sentence is backwards. I stopped reading after seeing the price under the false assumption that I need to pay to try the product.
Instead
"First month Free
No CC required.
If you love it, $25 per year thereafter.
And if it's not for you, no problem, thanks anyways!"
As an aphorism: Free is more fun than fee. You want the fee with the fun of free.
