> Is there a broader need for a service like this?
This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.
Bizarrely, many search engines seem to think it would be helpful to truncate the titles of search results. For example, the example search "python exceptions" suggested by Kagi on their homepage results in:
> How to Handle Exceptions in Python: A Detailed Visual...
A search on DuckDuckGo displays the complete title.
I don't mind scrolling down to find pricing information. It's not a problem to first describe the benefits and then to describe the price.
The problem is that you don't have pricing information on your homepage. "Join today for $29.99 to start." could mean anything: $29.99 for three days and then $200/week.
All you need to say is "$30/month" on your homepage somewhere and then I know what the price is.
If you don't tell me the price I'm going to assume I can't afford it :)
Pricing is hard to find; the main site only says "Join today for $29.99 to start." which could mean anything ("$30 for the first month and $300/month after that")
I had to click through to the portal and then get past the kit to find the actual pricing. $30/month is quite reasonable if it works, and it'd be reassuring to see that up front!
My favorite method of following a blog continues to be using an RSS feed reader.
(It's kind of like email: email is boring and old-fashioned, and there are many shiny new alternatives, but I still use email more than I use anything else. Same with following a project's progress on a blog using a RSS feed reader).
If you add an RSS feed to your blog, I'll subscribe :)
I wouldn't latch too strongly onto not being "man" enough. Your partners can tell there's a problem, but aren't sure how to articulate it, and "man enough" is as close as they know how to describe it.
You have behaviors which you learned as a child in response to the situation you found yourself in at the time, and those behavior patterns such as conflict avoidance which served you well at the time (or at least were the best that a child could come up with), no longer serve you well as an adult.
Thus rather than saying "man enough", I think a better description would be not "adult enough", in that particular area of conflict resolution.
I suspect you feel insecure about whether your partner likes you because this pattern of conflict avoidance may mean you haven't tested prospective partners while dating by showing them the real you and seeing whether they like that or not.
The way to build confidence is to address the area where you are weak by learning and practicing in that area until you are good at it, and then you will automatically have confidence about it. E.g. if you don't have confidence that you can ride a bicycle well, the solution isn't to pump up your confidence by boosting your manly power, the solution is to practice riding a bicycle until you are good enough at it, and then you'll feel confident about riding bicycles.
Thus I suggest your first priority should be to study and practice effective conflict resolution, asking for what you want, being assertive about things you care about, setting strong boundaries, etc., ideally in an experiential setting where you can practice interactions rather than just reading about it.
Then I think you'll find that women will find you already manly. Confidence is sexy. Not the fake confidence of boosting yourself up to appear confident while ignoring problems, but the true confidence of being able to say, "yup, I know how to handle this".
Hmm, while someone may legally owe you for example the final $10K in payment (or whatever the amount is), that wouldn't necessarily prevent a judge from perhaps deciding that you are also liable to them for the say $500K in businesses loses that they claim they incurred because of your SEO manipulation. I am not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice, but I would encourage someone to talk to their lawyer and to get legal advice before taking action which could be construed as threatening to harm someone's business...
This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.