Great work - this looks very cool. We'd be very interested in exploring it. We started looking into https://www.appcues.com/ but their pricing seems prohibitively expensive. They have a nice Chrome extension that allows nontechnical folks to easily create/customize the onboarding/tooltips for your app -- curious how your snippet will guide users through creation.
Oh that's great news! It's definitely going to be more accessible in terms of pricing, not even in the same ballpark as appcues. One additional thing is that we're allowing users to "cheat" our MAU system, by only including the script in pages that will make use of the script. This can cut down cost by more than 90%.
The onboarding setup should be super duper intuitive for non technical people as well! We're planning to release a video demo of the alpha version shortly, I'll be in touch!
I've been building stuff for quite some time now, and it was always a headache to set up onboarding for my apps.
I feel like building the core features of a product is enough hard labor in itself, I really don't need the overhead of developing and maintaining an onboarding system.
So this idea stemmed from my frustration, and I've been coding for about 8 months now. The good news is that once I'm finished with the core features I can use it to onboard itself lol.
Do you feel like my project would benefit you in some way? Thoughts are welcome. Thanks!
It is hard to answer whether or not this will be helpful, because it is unclear what it does. Does it automate setting up recurring billing? Creating new customer records? Or is it just web widgets that we can wire up to processes we would still need to write.
At the moment, this is just someone collecting emails to let us know when they really have something to show. I 100% see why getting our emails is helpful to you. I'm unclear at the moment what I would get out of it.
Have you thought about how your solution differs to Appcues and Intercom Tours? Just curious, as my team tried to build a solution like this but struggled to differentiate in the noisy space that is visual onboarding tools
Hey thanks for your message! Honestly I don't think those tools are accessible for the common folk. They're building complex and expensive onboarding solutions that onboard your users, make you a meal, massage your feet, and do the dry cleaning for you.
We just focus on launching a fun to use and intuitive app, that does one thing and it does it right.
I'd say just because there's Jira on the market, doesn't mean Trello has no room. Quite the contrary, I think more people use Trello on a day-to-day basis - and probably an average of about 5 features lol.
[+] [-] dstik|6 years ago|reply
Really excited for you!
[+] [-] andreigaspar|6 years ago|reply
The onboarding setup should be super duper intuitive for non technical people as well! We're planning to release a video demo of the alpha version shortly, I'll be in touch!
[+] [-] andreigaspar|6 years ago|reply
I feel like building the core features of a product is enough hard labor in itself, I really don't need the overhead of developing and maintaining an onboarding system.
So this idea stemmed from my frustration, and I've been coding for about 8 months now. The good news is that once I'm finished with the core features I can use it to onboard itself lol.
Do you feel like my project would benefit you in some way? Thoughts are welcome. Thanks!
[+] [-] codingdave|6 years ago|reply
At the moment, this is just someone collecting emails to let us know when they really have something to show. I 100% see why getting our emails is helpful to you. I'm unclear at the moment what I would get out of it.
[+] [-] codegladiator|6 years ago|reply
Show a mailing list subscription page ?
Why not Show when its ready ? and 8 months MVP and not ready ?
[+] [-] joyceaa|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] andreigaspar|6 years ago|reply
We just focus on launching a fun to use and intuitive app, that does one thing and it does it right.
I'd say just because there's Jira on the market, doesn't mean Trello has no room. Quite the contrary, I think more people use Trello on a day-to-day basis - and probably an average of about 5 features lol.
[+] [-] johnmarcus|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] andreigaspar|6 years ago|reply