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Got the email from @Claude today. Here's what we've been approved for:
• 11 free seats (5 Premium + 6 Standard)
• $1,000 in credits
They're still re-reviewing our application, so there may be more to come.
If you have any questions, just Ask.
So we got an email from @polar_sh saying they’re shutting down support for the AI Image & Video Generation category. Fair enough, but they gave us only 14 days to migrate. 😐
We checked the migration docs and found that migration isn’t self-serve — it has to be handled by their team. So we emailed them expecting help. Then waited 5 days for a reply.
And when they finally replied, they still misunderstood where we want to migrate.
We have a separate Stripe account (NOT Stripe Connect Express) that we’ve been using for years, and that’s where we want to move our customers/subscriptions. But they keep referring to the Stripe Express account connected to Polar and telling us migration isn’t possible because it’s an India-based Express account.
We’ve explained multiple times that that is NOT the destination Stripe account. 🤦♂️
The biggest issue is: if migration isn’t self-serve and only Polar can perform it, how can you give creators 14 days, take 5 days to respond, and still not understand the migration setup?
September 7 is approaching. If this isn’t resolved, we risk losing our active subscriptions and all our MRR, and potentially having to start from $0 again — despite Polar explicitly saying this decision has nothing to do with anything we did wrong.
And on top of that, Polar says they’ll hold our funds for 120 days (4 months).
As a small creator/business, that money matters. Why should our funds be held for 4 months when we’re being forced to leave through no fault of our own?
Honestly, this is one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve ever had with a payment provider. I’m now seriously reconsidering using Polar for my other projects.
@polar_sh — please just understand where we’re trying to migrate and help us get this done before September 7. We don’t have the luxury of wasting another few days going back and forth.
TIL that using the Google Fonts API alone can affect GDPR compliance. 😳 We found out today, removed it from @kiwiformhq immediately, and shipped the fix. The things you learn while building SaaS never stop surprising you.
Ankur✦kiwiform retweeted
🚀 We just launched Kiwiform on AppSumo!
If your business runs on forms, this is a deal you don't want to miss. 👀
🔗 Link in the replies.
Ankur✦kiwiform retweeted
Hey Sumo-lings! 👋
We’re the team behind Kiwiform, and we just went live on AppSumo today. 🚀
👇 Check out our AppSumo deal here: appsumo.8odi.net/9V9PGy 🔥
🚨 The problem: 🧵👇
Ankur✦kiwiform retweeted
living in india is hard as an indie dev.
you can't access tiktok (u can use vpn ofc but can't run ads).
you need a GSTIN number for running ASA (like wtf?? I am an 18 y/o student, how will I have that??)
stripe is not avl in india.
no like minded people around me. like no one even has an idea of what are they doing with their lives. just mugging up random text books everyday is not my cup of tea.
no one encourages what you do and you get to hear "better study than creating apps that no one uses" very often.
uncs who don't even know the full form of ai, give you random bs advices on your career.
govt doesn't give a fk about anything, its all corrupted.
Hello @BingWMC Our site kiwiform.com was fully de-indexed around July 2 — site: search now returns only the homepage. Bingbot crawls fine (all 200s), no noindex/robots blocks. Likely triggered by our multilingual launch in late June. Support ticket filed via BWT. Could you please help escalate?
Ankur✦kiwiform retweeted
Don't lose leads to separate booking links. 🛑
Embed Calendly into your forms with Kiwiform. We auto-fill names and emails so prospects never type details twice. Capture data & book calls in one flow. 🗓️
👉 Upgrade your flow: kiwiform.com/
Ankur✦kiwiform retweeted
Most forms feel like an interrogation. Every clumsy field drops your conversion rate. 📉
Meet Kiwiform.
We focus on clean, distraction-free UX so you can capture more leads with zero friction.
👉 Build your first form here: kiwiform.com
People romanticize building products.
“Just build something great and customers will come.”
No. They don’t.
For the last 1 year, we poured everything into building Kiwiform.
Late nights. Missed weekends. Endless redesigns. Constant bug fixing. Tiny UX details nobody notices unless they’re missing.
We obsessed over every interaction.
We made forms faster. Cleaner. Simpler. Better.
We did SEO.
We improved onboarding.
We rewrote copy 100 times.
We genuinely believe Kiwiform is better than many products already winning in this space.
And yet…
After 3 months of launching, we have only 1 paid customer.
That number hurts more than I can explain.
And what makes it even harder is… this isn’t our first product.
We already have successful products in our portfolio.
We know how this game works.
We know how to build.
We know how to execute.
Which somehow makes the silence around Kiwiform even more painful.
Because effort doesn’t care about your past wins.
The market doesn’t reward you just because you worked hard before.
Every new product starts from zero again.
You start questioning everything.
Was the idea wrong?
Was the timing wrong?
Are we just invisible?
Are we not good enough despite giving everything we had?
Nobody sees the anxiety of checking analytics every morning hoping today is different.
Nobody sees the quiet disappointment when there are no new signups again.
Nobody sees how emotionally draining it is to believe so deeply in something… while the world barely notices it exists.
The hardest lesson we’re learning right now:
A great product means nothing if nobody finds it.
Not quality.
Not clean UX.
Not perfect features.
Not sleepless nights.
Distribution matters. Attention matters. Customers matter.
But even after all this, we are not quitting.
Not now.
Not after giving a year of our life to this dream.
We’ll keep improving.
Keep marketing.
Keep learning.
Keep failing.
Keep showing up every single day until something finally clicks.
Because sometimes the only difference between failure and success is surviving long enough.
If you’re building something and struggling silently too, I just want you to know you’re not alone.
This journey is far harder and lonelier than people on Twitter make it look.
We keep going.
Just bought the domain agreed.net 👀
What do you think we’re building on it? And how much do you think we spent to grab it?
Drop your guesses 👇
Hi @noahkagan @AppSumo ,
I wanted to share this respectfully but honestly, we were genuinely surprised to see kiwiform.com get hard rejected by your platform.
I say this with full confidence: if there’s another form builder on AppSumo that’s genuinely better than Kiwiform, I’d happily take that challenge. In fact, I’d go as far as saying if you can show me a better one, I’ll shut Kiwiform down altogether. That’s how strongly we believe in what we’ve built.
What’s more frustrating is that we’ve seen products with far less polish, weaker functionality, and lower overall quality get listed, while a product like Kiwiform gets rejected without a fair shot. It honestly makes us question how the acceptance process is being handled.
We’d really encourage you to take another look at the listing and, more importantly, review the acceptance process itself. Great products should not be filtered out while weaker ones make it through. That hurts both founders and the AppSumo ecosystem.
Also worth noting, we already have another product listed on AppSumo, and it’s still running successfully. So we’re not new to the platform, and we understand the standards expected there.
I’m saying all this with respect, because we genuinely value AppSumo and what it can do for founders. But this one feels unfair, and I hope you’ll reconsider.