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by pclark 14y ago
Yes. We think those should be configurable through userfox rather than your code, but we're going to offer both solutions shortly.
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by pclark 14y ago
Oops. My heart just missed a beat that we forgot to add this for launch! We're not going to do any bad stuff, we're not going to sell the data nor emails, there is nothing weird going on here, we want to be as useful and valuable for busine
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by pclark 14y ago
You (probably) jest but I would have loved LinkedIn and Twitter MUCH faster had they done a better job at on boarding me. I didn't get what they were for way too long. Needed a story.
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by pclark 14y ago
It's the increased frequency (5 "story emails" in first month trump 1 "transactional (welcome. login here…) email") and the fact these emails are a chapter in a story, specifically that someone has registered for your service: you can assum
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by pclark 14y ago
We announced userfox with a launchrock page and I really wish I could have tied launchrock into userfox: sending a drip sequence to users that registered interest in a service would have improved launchrock 100x fold. (as asked, but alas, t
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by pclark 14y ago
We actually have a copywriter on team who would love to assist people writing emails. He manages a copywriting helpdesk for our customers, and also offers services to write and manage content. Shoot me an email if this is interesting to y
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by pclark 14y ago
I'll answer your questions here and then think about how to answer them on the site. Q: how does information get from my app into yours A: async javascript snippet. my co-founder has the scars to prove it is robust. Q: can I embed per-user
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by pclark 14y ago
We're changing the button to say "Get Started - It's free!" better?
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by pclark 14y ago
We'll offer bucketing. It just seems very hard to do right: now from a software nor even design point of view, but in a manner that makes it worthy of a time investment for young startups. welcome sequence felt like the low hanging fruit. b
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by pclark 14y ago
Pricing will be for new, more sophisticated features, what you see today will always be free. Features like push notifications, a/b testing, custom campaigns, additional email themes, and so on. I have learnt a lot from patio11 so we'll alw
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by pclark 14y ago
It is free for now. There'll be pricing eventually, but it'll be for additional features (such as a/b testing and so on) as we ship them. Right now, if you sign up, it's free to use, and we'd never be like, "hey man, you now owe us money fo
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by pclark 14y ago
Introduce your product through a series of emails. Two huge benefits over what you do today (almost certainly a singular welcome email) * helps users understand your product * reminds users of your product. What was the last product you sig
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by pclark 14y ago
we built a lot of stuff for userfox over the past few months. and we were looking at it all, making sure the user interface was usable, and so on: and ultimately decided that actually: sending emails when a user signs up is one of the m
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Show HN: Userfox (YC S11) — Better Welcome Emails (userfox.com)
100 points by pclark 14y ago|52 comments
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Hi, I'm Mark Bao.(iam.markbao.com)
4 points by pclark 14y ago|2 comments
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by pclark 14y ago
Of the hundreds of explanations about how you are different to WebVan, you really think this is the best one?
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by pclark 14y ago
It isn't easy to make a product that generates a few hundred dollars a month. The way Hacker News writes about these little products, you'd think they fall off trees. Nope. The step from nothing to $250/month is much much greater than the s
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by pclark 14y ago
and buffer slower
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by pclark 14y ago
Google is incompetent at expanding into adjacent markets to search engine marketing. That is their core competency. You think they can enter the automobile industry? You're insane.
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by pclark 14y ago
their autonomous car project is folly
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by pclark 14y ago
I would have liked to see Hacker News applauding Bill Nugyen for landing in such a way if these rumours are true. Colour has a team, with no products nor leadership and they're going to sell for tens of millions of dollars. To the most succ
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The silence of the suits(economist.com)
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James Joyce's "Ulysses": Why you should read this book(economist.com)
81 points by pclark 14y ago|71 comments
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by pclark 14y ago
The Stripe brand is not equivalent to paypal yet
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by pclark 14y ago
never thought i'd get a chance to promote foster hunting on hacker news, but et voila: the polar opposite of this article – something that would inspire you to want to live in a van – can be found on this fantastic blog: http://www.arest
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Restart: David Duffield, PeopleSoft founder, is back in business(sfgate.com)
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by pclark 14y ago
The fact Colour raised $40M is irrelevant to the fact Colour is struggling. They just keep making bad products.
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by pclark 14y ago
The killer thing about Twitter was that it was succinct public text messages. It turns out that is actually kind of an awesome way to communicate in some contexts. The killer thing about tent is that it is an open, de-centralised social net
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by pclark 14y ago
I saw that tent used an xkcd comic to explain it, and was instantly reminded that the audience of tent will never ever become anything close to mainstream
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by pclark 14y ago
What is the difference between a passphrase and a password? Good grief.

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