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Wiki Bot Landingpage Feedback

Hey guys,

Just wondering what you guys think of this landing page. It's not live yet and you can't sign up but just wanted to get some feedback on your thoughts.

https://sad-yonath-7953d2.netlify.com/

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    Sad that it isn't live because I wanted to sign up :) Just some minor feedback points:

    1. I personally don't know what a daily wiki summary is, so maybe add a sentence above your email input saying something like, "From King Henry, to the Panama Papers, and everything in between, blah blah blah..."

    2. I'd add some type of visual cue that tells the user to scroll down

    3. If this is a newsletter, what does logging in get me?

    Love that you're using Netlify too, I find it to be so easy to use. Let us know when it is live, I'll be your first subscriber.

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      @garretthenrym what is your workflow for creating daily emails?

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        Not an efficient one. I'm backed by a Sanity.io DB, so I input my data in there (which the website pulls from), then manually copy that to my mailchimp campaigns with pre-built templates.

        Once I have some time, potentially over the holidays, I want to automate the campaign send after I publish the content into Sanity.

        What is yours?

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          So currently I create admin dashboard in my site where I input the data/summaries that get stored in firebase. Originally I used nodemailer to create a mailing service using Firebase Funtions but now that I want to use mailchimp for its analytics etc. I'm not sure ill be able to use the database mailchimp campaigns without manually copying and pasting.

          So currently I am thinking of trying to get 1 month ahead on summaries in the mailchimp campaign and when I release it will be hard for new users to catch up since I am already 30 days ahead with content, even if I miss a day or so here and or there. Obviously this isn't for "scale" but its a good way I see to get the ball rolling.

          Have you thought about this or have any thoughts on this?

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            It's a good call. Not sure if mailchimp has a transactional email api, like Sendgrid. I'll need to do more research, but if they want to be the go to email platform, they should have one.

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              Yeah agreed. Thanks for flagging sendgrid! I'll look into that and maybe go that route.

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      haha. Good to know you wanted to sign up. Yeah not live yet! but probably this weekend i'll be ready to go into beta.

      1). nice! great suggestion! Thanks for recommending that and I agree with you.
      2). mmm good point since the hero is 100vh. I may make it a bit shorter like 90vh/80vh just so its obvious that something is below it.
      3). Yeah, so essentially I want people to be able to control the frequency at which they get the newsletter. Like daily, weekly, bi-weekly, etc. I figured I could also use the login portal for other things once it scales etc. Maybe eventually you can control the topics or maybe have a "Preference" on which topics you receive.

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        I built a backend email service with firebase instead of mailchimp etc. But i'm wondering if I am shooting myself in the foot by doing this.

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      Yeah so that's something I've been thinking about! And this the what ive come up with as well and plan to do! I've built the backend. Just need to update the landing page to reflect this. I'll probably need to add a "How it works" section now.

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        It was meant to be something similar to https://albumdaily.com/

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            @garretthenrym any thoughts on this? Curious if you found this to be true since you've already launched your service.

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              Hi @Coderforlife22, thanks for mentioning me here! @alxcnwy has identified a very real worry that I have about Album Daily. Everyone's music taste is different, just like everyone's historical tastes are different in your case.

              However, I see this as a scaling problem. For now, I can provide enough of a variety to expose the normal user to different genres (pop, rock, country, rap, blues, oldies) to keep them interested. But as we scale, introduce more target (and like you mentioned, automated) topics to subscribe to. Maybe there is a newsletter per genre, or a newsletter per mood, etc. Whatever it is, it's too hard to do at the moment. There is a tradeoff, though, that I will miss subscribers like @alxcnwy until that happens. But you can't win them all, and if the plan works and we can scale, hopefully I can grab him when we introduce derivative products :) Hope that helps

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                Yeah this is a good point! Comes down to targeting and realizing your product won't be for everyone. Interesting perspective.

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