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Tell HN: We'll write your lifecycle emails for you if you sign up for Userfox
- brianbreslin 14y agogreat Saas idea. I was toying around with this idea like 9 months ago w/a friend. obviously we never did anything with it, glad you guys did.
- joshdotsmith 14y agoThere are a lot of people in this space, and some have now fallen by the wayside. You have: - Customer.io - Intercom.io - Mixpanel - userfox - Pipewise (deadpool)
- pclark 14y agogetvero too.
- joshdotsmith 14y agoYep, and others I'm sure I've forgotten or never discovered.
- brianbreslin 14y agoI was thinking JUST the transactional/retention emails as a service, which is what this seems like. the others are more on the analytics side (at least mixpanel is)
- joshdotsmith 14y agoGreat idea, as is this growth hacker marketplace. Question, though: in your showcase/marketplace, will you be able to show how much of an impact said growth hacker or tactic has had in the past?
- pclark 14y agoyes. absolutely. i want to turn growth into something that is reproducible, and early tests show that you can reproduce what works for one business, for another, assuming you have the data to create boundaries. (a high level learning for example is that we've learnt sending emails multiples of 7 days after a user signs up, provides superior conversions than multiples of 6 or 8.) wouldn't it be ridiculously awesome if you wanted to hire a copywriter, and you saw their before and after stats on their work? talk is talk, but data is data. advertising/adwords is something where results increase as you spend more money, and i want to do the same with application growth. or something.
- joshdotsmith 14y agoYes, I've wanted something just like this for awhile. I even bought the domain tactical.ly with the aim of building something like it. I just wouldn't have had the data to back up whether specific tactics would work or not. Obviously your plan is to use your platform to back up their assertions.
- samsolomon 14y agoAs a side note I love the logo. The fox as an envelope is perfect - especially for this concept!
- pclark 14y agomy buddy Sean Farrell did it. incredible work. incredible, see his portfolio: http://dribbble.com/brandclay/buckets http://dribbble.com/brandclay/buckets he did this one - that we never used, but i felt like it had so much potential that it sits on my desktop waiting for a usage - http://cl.ly/MOYS http://cl.ly/MOYS
- peterjmag 14y agoFYI, your "Learn More & Sign Up" button links to https://userfox.com/ https://userfox.com/, which gives me a SSL cert mismatch error. https://www.userfox.com/ https://www.userfox.com/ works fine, however.
- pclark 14y agogross. thanks i'll fix it.
- d0m 14y agoMaking it easy for business to spam customers.. no thanks.
- pclark 14y agomaking it easy for businesses to tell a story of why your product is valuable to a user that has explicitly signed up
- d0m 14y agoFrom the landing page: Day 1 Welcome! ... Day 4 Check this feature out... ... Day 7 It's been a week: how are we doing? ... Day 14 Become a power user like Zach... ... Day 30 Your free trial has expired ... Day 45 Want to extend your trial? This is spam. Usually, I give my e-mail as a way to identify myself to a website. I accept that they send me a confirmation e-mail to see if it's a genuine user. But after that, it's all spam.
- zinssmeister 14y ago> "I accept that they send me a confirmation e-mail to see if it's a genuine user. But after that, it's all spam." It's ok you feel that way, but not everyone thinks like you.
- d0gsbody 14y agoI think the whole point is making your customers not feel spammed.
- d0m 14y agoSo don't send them e-mail.
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoHow long is this deal going on for? I still gotta get my act together.
- pclark 14y agountil we get swamped. few days or a week probably.
- uvince 14y ago"This is a limited time offer, we're not Color or anything. But hopefully it'll whip Hacker News into a frenzy." I see what you did there.