Hi Everybody! 👋
I have been polishing up one of my side-projects and wondering what you think:
This started as a fun project to build something with an AWS serverless backend. Now I’m curious to see if there’s a real value proposition here.
Love to hear what you think 🤘
You can implement custom emoji/smilies sets and designs from sites like flaticon, iconscout, icons8, iconfinder, joypixels...
It can be one of features - basic plan to have standard emojis, other plans more sets of icons to select.
Some "old-school" companies might be reluctant to "social media" smilies but would be open to consider serious simple-line icons and emojis.
Nice idea and you might be right about old-skool orgs too.
The emojis I show are really just unicode characters, so I wonder if there's an easy way to "re-skin" those with custom fonts perhaps?
I know for fontawesome.com and bootstrap 5 icons as the most popular, also I've seen icomoon, fontastic, fontello ... probably many more exists. Most of them can be implemented as css and/or SVG so you can change colors, size etc.
Hi David, it looks like a lot of effort went into your project and landing page. The landing page gives me a 'there is a big team behind this' feel, which I think this great.
I understand what the product does and the features that came to mind are mostly there.
Based on personal experience from large companies, I think you can take this further -- I would not fixate on Slack. I would offer (or make it clear that you offer) templates for weekly / quarterly / yearly pulse-checks (each with different level of detail in questions) (e.g. Google does yearly "Googlegeist" survey and bi-yearly manager feedback surveys).
I think it's certainly valuable. I would offer a trial (e.g. limited by number of surveys). I think you could grow this bottom-up where several teams in a bigger company adopt this and then you reach out to the company to sell them the enterprise plan :)
On the sign-up page, I would suggest offering e.g. sign-up with Google or other.
I put some more detailed feedback here: https://screenbud.com/shot/153c92bf-43b6-424b-8022-6af39ea1e3cf
Petr, that's incredible feedback thank you so much! Looks like I have a bunch of changes to make :D
Regarding Slack: Yep I plan to support more platforms (MS Teams, Mattermost, email, etc) 👍
Regarding Google login: Social logins are in the backlog. I think I have to implement the OAuth flow handling myself because AWS Cognito sucks.
Love the idea of bottom-up selling the enterprise plan.
And yes there is a no-credit-card free trial that I definitely need to make clearer on the website!
From here I have a few ideas for how to grow this further:
Also, that Screenbud tool is cool. I mainly found myself wanting to zoom and pan in a Google Maps-like way. Maybe that could be a mode?