@leanux_bala Hey Bala! Thanks for testing and arghhhh! We're still suffering from some weirdness from the Amazon S3 outage yesterday - and clearly it's breaking our hearts. -- If there's any way you can send us a Console screenshot of the error, we'll take a deeper look! - Cheers
@michaelenriquez Hey Michael! Thank you so much for checking it out! I like to make the comparison to Kanye West's latest album. In this day and age, once you create something, there's endless opportunity to go back and keep improving and optimizing it. Our vision is that your website and your posts will keep getting better over time, and reactively, as data/feedback floods in.
Report
@garettpress I think the most interesting, if not the most difficult, is to start teasing away at the commonalities between all the successful blog posts. So that even after X number of A/B tests, certain patterns should emerge that the human (intuition) and your product can start picking up. So even before having to AB test it, you know that it'll succeed before you even hit publish on a post
@michaelenriquez It's like you're in our heads! That's where the "machine learning" aspect comes in. We'll be able to leverage data from all the traffic and A/B tests flowing across the platform to help publishers make the best possible optimizations. :)
Report
How difficult would it be to migrate a multi-author Wordpress site to this platform?
What is the current status, and plan, for traffic and file size limits? How far can the $29 per month take a blog? Traffic/load balancing? Oh, and what about export? We've got a property we'd love to try this on from scratch, but what happens if this fails in 6 months and we have to move our content?
@sbradweaver Hey Brad! Thanks for checking us out. 1) No file size limits currently, though if we notice abuse we'll take action 2) Traffic limits -- none, we use load balancers and have built scalability into the platform from day one (can offer more specifics if you need). Reid Hoffman's site has already gotten a fair bit of traffic and our system hasn't blinked 3) We are building export capability right now, so you can export your content if need be
@captnphilip Exactly!! :) -- We were worried people might think you can actually do that with the product. Those are actually my hands. Closest I'll ever come to being Tom Cruise.
@named_none Hahah - not quite a homophone, it's not pronounced the same (unless you have a strong German accent). We realize the similarity but we're prepared to overcome it. Bet you won't forget it any time soon! :)
Report
@garettpress the video never pronounced it and thus my assumption.. 😁 All the best! 👍
A few questions/comments (some of which I've already sent privately to support@)
* What's the roadmap/schedule for email? That's far more important than social for conversion. And by email, I mean collecting multiple posts into a nicely formatted newsletter and mailing it to a list that the system maintains, complete with bounce processing.
* Similarly, what's the roadmap/schedule for memberships? That will presumably use some of the same account-based capabilities as email.
* Is there any way of supporting user accounts at this point in time, membership or no?
* Comments are important, so the conversation can enhance the articles and so the site remains a destination rather than a launchpad feeding Facebook and Twitter.
* What are the traffic limits if a page goes viral? Are there overage fees or the like?
* How will this system deal with an existing content archive of thousands of articles?
* Do any of the designs work well with primarily textual content where there are few, if any images?
* What's the story with collaborative editing, which any professional publication will need as pieces go from author to editor?
* Is the infrastructure based on AWS?
* Is there an ecommerce story behind the call-to-action feature, or is just linking off to somewhere else?
cheers... -Adam
@adamengst Hey Adam! All great questions. Let's dive in:
1) Email will probably land in Q3 this year. It's one of our most requested features and was always in our roadmap because we know how essential it is, and how much of a headache it can pose.
2) I think you're talking about subscription content? That should be out in the next 2-3 months. It's being worked on as we speak. Phase 1 will be paid subscription to an email list. Phase 2 will be paid subscription to a content section on your site.
3) Right now there is no notion of user accounts, but you can collect emails on your site, so you can start building a list of subscribers
4) There are no traffic limits! And we're prepared to handle thousands of back catalog articles. We can ingest them pretty easily through our content ingestion tool.
5) We can certainly handle a text-heavy site -- take a look at this demo site: http://benevans.ver.st/
6) We don't support multi-author yet, but that's also being worked on
7) Yes!
8) Right now it's linking off-site to your Shopify, Amazon, etc. -- down the line we plan to have transaction capable CTA's
Report
It crashed on me, when I tried to select and delete the content of a post. Hmmm. Maybe I'll wait a few days.
@stoweboyd Hey Stowe! Thanks for testing and bug reporting! We're still recovering from the Amazon S3 outage yesterday (phenomenal timing hah) -- so there a few kinks related to that. Should be back to normal v. soon!
Replies
Verst
Verst
Verst
Verst
Verst
Creative Truth
Verst
Verst
Verst
Verst
Take Control of TextExpander
Verst
Verst
Verst
Verst