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Team Feels - Emoji surveys for Slack 💪 (What do you think? 🤷)

Hi Everybody! 👋

I have been polishing up one of my side-projects and wondering what you think:

https://teamfeels.app

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.

  • Does the website explain things clearly?
  • What questions are you left wondering?
  • Can you see value in this idea?
  • Would you use it? Or think others might?

Love to hear what you think 🤘

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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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    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

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      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:

      • Pre-canned survey sets "backed by science"
      • An in-app marketplace for those?
      • More platform support besides Slack, obviously.
      • Somehow figure out how to get this in front of potential users
      • More SEO

      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?

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