🎄Challenge - Launch a Start Up before Christmas 🎄22 December
Hello everyone! I am very happy more people decided to join the challenge. The deadline is rapidly approaching and some of you have already shipped...
Well done! 👏
Many of you are very close indeed, let's make the last effort together to launch before Christmas day! 🎅🎅🎅
Here is the up to date list of people who joined the challenge! Thanks for joining, you are all doing great!
- @CJKinni with his Secret Santa, Simply
- @iPGregor with punktapp.me (end of Year challenge)
- @codeables with DokaCRM
- @dakl with hashr.io
- @TonyMaguire (he will launch very soon!)
- @jawmes with 2FA Reminder (launched yesterday!)
- @Feynman37 (with a super interesting idea involving Reddit API!)
- @DavidGetchel with freshload.co
- @omneity with monitoro.xyz (launched yesterday!)
- @TaimoorAhmad with leggo.cc
- @catalystic with https://navigator.bytebeacon.com
- @jp_aulet (let me know what you plan to launch!)
Let's make some progress, we are almost there!
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Family has been in town and I didn't do anything for freshLoad.co
I did install ghost and going to get back into blogging.
Great job everyone 👏
I love seeing people in action that are creating a bigger future.
Can i join for, before 2020?
I am working on user feedback system for startups. Users can give feedback, report bugs and see the roadmap of the startup.
Of course! Will add you to the round up email
Good luck with the challenge!
pcsalesapp.com is now live!
Here's what it does:
-Checks Reddit hourly for new posts mentioning sales on PC parts (RAM, GPUs, monitors, laptops etc). This was quite simple with the Reddit API.
-Does text parsing with Python/regex to make a json file with the product links, prices, and categories
-Uses Bootstrap for the front-end so you can filter on price and category
That's basically it for now. I'll do a longer write-up in the coming days to talk a bit more about the technology choices and to get some advice on what to do next. I haven't bothered with adding affiliate links yet. I'm guessing it will be complicated to automate that part, but it doesn't really matter unless the site starts getting some traffic anyway.
Cheers for posting this challenge. It's been at the back of my mind to do this ever since Black Friday, but it was this thread that finally got me moving.
I am so so happy you shipped it!
It looks like an amazing tool and I am glad this challenge helped you get it out finally!
Good luck for the future and keep us updated!
Can I join late with my launch of The UX Mini Course?
It's a free course with 5 actionable lessons on easily improving UX.
Some of the tips are so simple, and yet I encounter well-known sites that don't follow them on a weekly basis!
https://the-ux-mini-course.com
Looks really cool! Congratulations on shipping!
One small question though, does it have to happen via email?
I understand you’re trying to secure an audience, but for something supposedly short and useful, this extra barrier made me lose interest immediately.
Just my 2 cents of course, YMMV.
Thank you for the feedback!
Genuine question: how would you suggest I change it to still function for building an audience and remove that barrier?
PS here’s the full course w/o email https://the-ux-mini-course.com/book
Thank you for sharing the direct link! I had a look and the content is excellent, especially for developers that lack a UX sensitivity, and the execution (with the interactive components instead of screenshots/gifs) is really stellar. Kudos for shipping!
I can think of three other possible ways that reduce the friction before giving up the email:
1- Provide a less visible link « Access the course directly »
2- Make the first course available without signing up, then ask the user to sign up to get the 4 other courses
3- Provide the entire book without sign up, and then after each chapter, or at the end of the book, suggest to the user to put their email for more UX oriented content
I cannot pronounce myself on the conversion rate, so maybe you should run some A/B tests?
You could also combine these approaches, for example, you could show the first course directly on the landing page, with a signup widget underneath and the optional skip button, and then add this same widget after every course page.
PS: Funny thing, in the second chapter, it’s possible to see the icon labels on mobile when tapping them (since there’s no other interaction on click), and this defeats the sentence right after!
You might want to « break » the tooltips on mobile to get your point across more effectively.
Thank you @omneity! I went with the simplest to implement first: access to the full course with a signup CTA at the bottom of each chapter.
If you have a few moments, would you please give it another look?
https://the-ux-mini-course.com
Hey Caleb!
Just took a look and I really like it now. The funnel is much smoother, and it delivers some of the value up-front and wows the customer early on.
It's totally in line with what David Skok advocates for, in terms of motivating the customer to progress further in the pipeline. This reading might be interesting to you if you haven't seen it already :
https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/time-to-wow/
(Relevant diagram, in the section "Re-think the process and put Wow! first")
Of course, depending on the size of your traffic, you might want to A/B test this approach if you're not happy with the conversion rate.
Thank you again so much for the reference!
I shared on a couple of smaller sub-reddits today and have gotten some positive feedback.
There haven't been any additional sign-ups, so I'll probably try the "enroll to get the rest of the course" option next :)
Will add you to the list!
It looks like a very useful tool, UX is so important yet often overlooked (at least I am guilty of it)
Tiny things still unfinished:
Then, it's all rock'n'roll!
Small suggestion:
You can live and ship without this.
Monitoro survived for two months without a reset password page, instead offering these little things via the support email, and that allowed us to ship more impactful things faster.
Best of luck!
Thank you. Didn't actually think of this. I always assumed this is a major trust-factor and makes people not worrying about who they just paid and if they can get out of it easily.
But an email-address should suffice. I agree.
I cannot answer you for sure, maybe just think about the tradeoff for users:
Can the time you’re saving by not implementing cancelation be used for something that’s more impactful in the user journey?
Good luck for hashr.io!
I made some decent progress yesterday. Today I am going to work bits and pieces but I hope I will be as productive.
What I have done
✅ Fixed bugs in user registration and login
✅ Built the view to create and save resolutions
✅ Started building the backend for creating and saving resolutions
✅ Advertised a bit the solution on Alfa Data newsletter (1 person subscribed)
Plan for December 22
🔳 Finish the backend for creating and saving resolutions
🔳 Deploy the web app
If I manage to finish the 2 things above I should really have an MVP ready for launch. Will then work on usability of the app and prepare some videos for launch. Plan to build a basic dashboard too, but that will be probably after the launch! Let's see 🤞
You are a one man army. Good job with the progress so far!
See if I can finish managing Leads, Contacts and all related features today.
Also planning to do an onboarding implementation.