Increasing conversions from sharing community templates

[pulsar bone]

When I go to My Templates and click "Copy share link" it generates a link like this: https://console.runpod.io/deploy?template=gg1utaykxa&ref=o3idfm0n which leads directly to deploy page. When I do some marketing around my template either on Discord or Reddit that link probably generates a lots of exits as visitors are quite confused. I think it would hugely increase conversion rates if that link took the visitor to template detail page, where they can read what the template is about. Adding a huge call-to-action button "Deploy pod using this template" would be nice too. 🥳

[pulsar bone]

@gloomy basalt would love to hear your opinion on this :)

[gloomy basalt]

Might be possible

Personally I prefer it how it is since when people want to use my template they already know what koboldcpp is and merely want to use it

You also have your own site for it I saw

[pulsar bone]

yeah, i did one like in 15 minutes 🙈

[pulsar bone]

i'm also targeting people with zero knowledge of stable diffusion tools and/or linux. Driving them to a page with a list of GPUs might be confusing for many. Even for those not confused by GPUs - would be nice to at least see something like "You're deploying a pod using koboldcpp template", coz name of the template is nowhere to be seen until you click one of the gpus

it's just bad user experience / customer journey in my opinion

[manic raven]

How about the idea to create a SaaS for your service hahaha

[pulsar bone]

slowly going there, runpod template is proof of concept

[gloomy basalt]

It used to have the template above the gpu's which was more clear in that sense. They could filter the gpu's according to what the template can handle and then we could also specify a filter in the template. For example cuda 12.8 would be useful to set so users don't have to worry about it. I solve that one by having cuda 11.4 as the lowest possible version but that trips people up.

[gloomy basalt]

Doesn't work for me. Our software is by an open source community not a corporation. Its why we send our users to runpod. They can use the software here and then we don't have to worry about providing a service.

And my users don't even trust api services, api services are often cheaper for them but they want full control and a privavy guarantee only this kind of setup can bring. Since they will know what the pod is running and they trust both runpod and our software to be secure. They also know that if runpod were to be insecure for example with a rogue community host that our software is still shielding them from that as good as possible.

[pulsar bone]

almost all big open source projects have a SaaS version. Helps the development alive and still there are people who prefer "easy way". It will always be an open source

[gloomy basalt]

We just don't enjoy running a business

We dont accept donations even

Its purely out of passion

We do get runpod referral ofc

But so far we only spent it on things for the project

We do have an online version at https://koboldai.net but its bring your own api

[pulsar bone]

then you are either rich or dont have kids :) I have to pay bills man

[gloomy basalt]

I have a day job haha

All of the kobold devs do

We don't want the hobby to become our job