My friends @46elks and I have been working on this side project called Signup! for the past few weeks.
A lot of us have side projects and we love seeing new users signing up to them!
So we built this service. Just create your free account, put the little javascript snippet at the bottom of the last page of the on boarding of your app and we'll send you a text message to cheer you up!
@johannesl can you tell the fellow hunters how it works behind the scene?
@gregoiregilbert@46elks Hi Grégoire! Thanks for hunting us.
Basically, when you create a Signup!-account you get a unique code. You then get a Javascript code with that unique code baked in, and you copy paste that snippet to the last page of your product or projects account creation flow.
When your users complete your registration process, the Javascript will run and our backend will use the 46elks API for sending fun motivating text messages (SMS) to your phone number. :-)
@gregoiregilbert Well I guess the fact that we all made it to Friday, is already a small victory worth celebrating 🎉😀
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Love this tool ! :)
I tried with an unbounce landing page, it took me less than 2 minutes to implement and test.
"Signup" asked me a question: "someone just signed up! Curious to see who it is ?" but I can't answer from my phone. Is there a way to get more info about the sign up or this minimalist approach is part of the product philosophy.
Also I would love to have the same feature in Slack. What tool would you recommend for that ?
@raphc Thanks for the kind words Raphaël!
For now, it's a very minimalist approach. You got it right!
But funny enough, several people told me that they'd like to be able to reply to the messages, so that might be something we investigate in a future release. (cc: @johannesl)
As for a Slack plugin recommendation I'm afraid I can't help as we don't use any for that.
@raphc Hi there! Really happy to read your positive comment! :-)
We are actually discussing different ways to improve the service going forward. One is being more clever batching the messages, such as "Good start of the week with a new signup! Way to go!" and "Second Signup! today. Well done! 👍🏻".. but it could also make sense to be able to reply with questions or even "chill" to tell the system you want lower volume of messages.
In order to receive replies we would need to send from a phone number instead of the text sender ID "Signup" that we use today. But the good thing with that is if you're using Signup! with multiple projects we can use one number for each project and allow you to add them into your phone book with your own descriptive name + custom ring tone.
Adding Slack integration as an option is actually not that bad an idea. We'll sit down next week with all the feedback we've got and look at what we should do next. Thanks again for the feedback!
@raphc Oh, and I forgot - yeah, one way to further improve the service is to show more information about the signups you get. We really like the minimalistic approach to get started, but then adding more options once you've tested the service would be nice - and even doing simple things such as "You got a new signup from Sweden" makes a lot of sense. :-)
Would you pay for a service like this and what's a good pricing model you think?
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@johannesl I could pay a little fee yearly probably (like 10 or 20€)
Thanks for your answers.
I actually had a problem with the implementation of the code. I use only one page and found myself getting a text to every new visit on my unbounce landing page and not for every sign up.
Is it possible to tweak the script so we receive a text only when people fill out the form ?
@raphc Hi again Raphaël!
The trick is to put the Javascript snippet not on your signup page - but instead on the page that your users get to see once they have completed the registration (maybe your confirmation page, dashboard, or Thank you!-page). We'll try to make the instructions more clear!
I didn't receive the code, and there is no support ? nothing happened when i click to button "Didn't receive the code?"
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@thanhcs94 Hi!
Usually an e-mail client pops up so that you can notify us!
Get in touch with us at help@46elks.com so that we can take a look.
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I love the concept, but don't understand how you monetize? It's really great, perhaps you could do first 100sms free, from there on, few tiers. Just trying to help, we're definitely trying it out!
@glaboo_com hello! Monetization isn't everything, haha 😉 We might have additional, paying options later on. For now we are happy to help and to raise attention on our paying product for SMS and voice solution, that we used to build Signup!: the 46elks API
As much as bot's are taking over our world, SMS is still the king of unified messaging so love how Signup! uses a good old friend! Awesome work - excited to try it on a new product I'm working on 🎉
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