[pj1115]

I wish you the best, but you do not have a product to monetise yet.

IMO: if your goal is to attract users or to make money, you have too many strong free competitors to be using ads like this, especially if your audience read Hacker News. It's not the right business model. Any amount of time spent making these ads 'smoother' is better spent on the product, because you won't earn enough ad revenue to make it worth it.

If you need revenue to pay for hosting, you'd be better off making it open source or self-hostable.

If your goal is getting feedback, you have to recognise that people are doing it for you, not for them. Don't make them pay you to do it.

[samrazer]

Thanks a lot for your kind wishes and detailed feedback! I’m a bit unsure what you mean by not having a “product” — I do have an online notepad and a Cornell notes tool; I just shared the homepage, not the specific tools (there are currently two, and I plan to expand gradually). Do you mean a large product or so?

I really appreciate your thoughts on monetization. I’ll definitely keep improving the notepad, Cornell notes, and other productivity tools to be added to the website to be as smooth and distraction-free as possible.

About making it open source or self-hostable, I might consider that later as more people suggest it instead of the current model.