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I launched on AppSumo to radio silence. Help?

I launched https://pretzelbox.cc (an alternative to Hey for Domains) on AppSumo earlier this week (Monday) to basically radio silence. I got one conversion which was reversed within the same day.

Any help in improving the listing would be much appreciated.

AppSumo link = https://appsumo.com/products/pretzelbox-an-inbox-for-your-domain/

on May 27, 2022
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    Hi, I had a quick glance. My first impression.

    It's pretty pricey. As far as I understood it's email aliases plus mail to blog and mail to portfolio site.

    You charge 228 per year appsumo, which is not a massive discount. And probably it's among the most expensive 5% of appsumo yearly deals.

    More generally, your product addresses a specific niche. Who needs many email addresses from his own domain but cannot die E-Mail aliases. How many people blog by sending an email? And how many create a portfolio site from email. And how many need all of this together?
    (I may have misunderstood, I just had a quick glance.)
    And there are thousands of appsumo deals, so not many will discover it in the first place.

    Maybe start with a more aggressive price to get some first traction?

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      This is good advice. I was trying to balance going too aggressive on price with having to deal with AppSumo buyers who have a reputation of being super demanding. Clearly this pricing isn't working very well - will have to reconsider.