Show HN: WebEngage Notifications

[nischalshetty]

I can think of quite a few use cases for use in our products. I especially like the idea of broadcasting a downtime if we intend to go down for maintenance. Also, apart from sending emails to our users about new feature launches, we can use this to make sure our users don't miss out on the new features.

Wish you luck, this seems useful to any website that wants to keep its users informed!

[aerotrain]

Is there any javascript API to use your layout to show simple messages instead of any pre-created notification? Basically I would like to use one messaging UI to show your notification with all targeting specified as well as my custom messages (like error/sucess messages)

[avlesh-singh]

Yes, there is one. We'll build smart notifications on top of the API. Once we gain some confidence using our own API, we'll make it publicly available.

[il_]

Suggest you fix some of the typos in your screenshots, i.e. discountine = discontinue. Otherwise looks good!

[avlesh-singh]

Fixed. Thanks.

[swatantra-kumar]

How is this (technically) different from tool already running on mashable.com | blogs.hbr.org ??

[acharekar]

Well, so you are able to create notifications from your twitter/fb/linkedin etc. Few use-cases are well discussed in the post and I am sure their are many more. Also, it mentions "We’ll be adding complete customization capabilities (colors, targeting etc) to Notification." So there is going to be a layer of targeting. (see this http://webengage.com/features/survey-and-lead-generation | first para talks about targeting) Analytics around notification displays, clicks etc are going to be very insightful, I am sure.

[avlesh-singh]

In a couple of ways -

1. WebEngage notifications can be "targeted" - it means you can choose to pop the message only to visitors meeting certain criteria. E.g. only to visitors coming from Google search, only to visitors spending 30 seconds on pricing page etc.

2. Smart notifications will automatically fetch updates from your Twitter/Blog/FB etc and create a notification out of it.

3. WebEngage notifications will have a definite call-to-action and the analytics will be focused on proving you a lot of BI around clickthrough rates.

[aerotrain]

Aren't those simple wordpress plugins giving relevant suggestion from the database? Not sure if they allow us to customize those messages.

[gecco]

Great! how do you plan to price it?

[avlesh-singh]

To begin with, we'll roll it out for all our customers with restrictions on the number of clickthroughs for each of our plans - http://webengage.com/pricing .. later, we plan to roll out each of our products separately with their own pricing as well. The basic paid version of Notifications will be priced in the range of $10/mo.