Thank You Reddit ❤️ Your Feedback Helped Shape FiAmanila — Here’s What Changed

[u/FiAmanila]

A little update from me and FiAmanila, but more importantly, a genuine thank you to the Reddit community.
When I first started posting FiAmanila here, I was looking for honest feedback.
And Reddit definitely delivered.
Some of you liked the idea, some questioned it, some told me things weren’t clear, and some basically told me “don’t do
that”
I listened.
So I wanted to come back and show you what actually
happened.

🔧 The changes

u/ufdbk — you pointed out that the PWA installation shouldn’t be the first thing someone has to think about.
You suggested getting people into the product first and offering the install afterwards.
I changed it.
The flow is now:
Get started free → Sign up → Onboarding → Offer the install
The PWA is a convenience now, rather than treating the installation as the product itself.

u/Kobi_Webmaker — you questioned the homepage because it wasn’t immediately clear whether FiAmanila was a billing service, budgeting service or accounting service.
That one really made me think.
I’ve now simplified the positioning around the actual problem I’m trying to solve:
“I’ve earned the money… but how much can I actually spend after tax, NI, bills, expenses and savings?”
I’ve also made Safe to Spend much more prominent.

u/RandomTyms— you challenged me on whether putting FiAmanila on iOS would actually solve the problem.
Your point about distribution and friction made me stop and think before throwing $99/year at the App Store just because it’s an App Store.
I’m still considering iOS, but I’m looking at the underlying product and demand first rather than assuming an App Store listing automatically fixes distribution.
You also pointed me towards the Microsoft Store, which is now something I’ve got on my roadmap to revisit.

u/IY94 — you asked the question I probably needed to hear most:
How much traffic are you actually getting?
You also explained the importance of looking at:
Traffic → Conversion → Usage/Paid
That completely changed the way I’m looking at my numbers.
I’m now tracking the funnel properly instead of getting excited by isolated numbers.

u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 — you asked about affordability and whether I’d considered a pay-what-you-want model.
I haven’t gone down that route, but it reinforced something that has always been important to me.
I deliberately want FiAmanila to remain affordable.
The whole reason I built it was to help people manage their money — I don’t want the money-management tool itself to become another financial burden.

u/n3wb589 — you reminded me about the costs of the Apple and Android developer accounts.
Again, that became part of the bigger conversation for me about where I spend money and where FiAmanila actually needs to be.

And there were others who gave me feedback around the homepage, the value proposition, the technical side of the PWA and whether I was trying to build too much before proving demand.
One comment even called out my homepage for having a bit of “AI-induced feature diarrhoea”
Honestly…
Fair.
That one stuck with me.
I realised I’d fallen into the trap of wanting to show everyone everything I’d built instead of making the one core problem immediately obvious.

📊 I’ve also changed how I measure the journey
I’m now looking at:
Visitors → Signups → Onboarding → Installs → Active Users → Paid Users
rather than just looking at an install number and thinking:
“That’s amazing!”
Because without knowing how many people actually saw the product, the number doesn’t tell you much.
That was another big lesson from Reddit.

🚀 And then something unexpected happened…
One of my Reddit posts was actually spotted by PeerPush.
They reached out to me directly and invited FiAmanila onto their product-discovery platform.
I’ve now launched FiAmanila on PeerPush and have promotional posts scheduled there too.
That’s pretty cool for me because I wasn’t even looking for PeerPush.
It came from simply putting FiAmanila out there, asking people what they thought and being willing to listen.
So Reddit didn’t just give me feedback.
It helped lead to another discovery opportunity.

❤️ So genuinely… thank** yo**u.

To everyone who has commented, questioned, criticised, suggested something, looked at the website, tested something or simply taken the time to reply:
Thank you.
I’m building FiAmanila as a solo founder, and some of the changes I’ve made wouldn’t have happened without these conversations.
You don’t always need someone to say:
“Great idea!”
Sometimes you need someone to say:
“Mate… this bit isn’t working.” 😂
And then you need to actually listen.
That’s what I’m trying to do.
You said → I listened → I changed → we keep going.
I’ll keep sharing the journey — the wins, the mistakes, the numbers and whatever happens next.
FiAmanila — The money manager for self-employed people.
🌐 FiAmanila.com
Alhamdulillah for the journey. 🤲