1700+ Alpha Subscribers!
by Alessandro StiglianiProduct Hunt is one of the most peculiar places in the web product and marketing landscape, we launched our alpha last week on PH and were pretty surprised with the results we got so far.
In one month we grew from 500 to 1700+ users on our alpha! Obviously PH had a huge role in this outcome, even after our launch last week users keep coming and subscribing on our landing page and we still have a quite nice daily traffic on our LP (around 300/day).
Obviously finishing 2nd of the day has probably a big impact on those metrics, but for the long trend finishing in the top 10 of the week is also an objective worth taking into consideration!
Getting this much traffic and subscriptions on this short period of time had a very beneficial impact:
- We discovered that our current AWS setup its handling pretty quite well this kind of volume
- More than 160 users sent us feedback (We’re glad we moved our survey on our platform)
- We have a clear view of the back and front errors that need to be fixed
- Since we don’t charge money for our solution during this alpha, we can’t say we found market fit but we clearly have some market interest and this gave us a great confidence/morale boost.
Key takeaway: Having a lot of followers on social networks does not equate to having an interested and committed audience that would jump through hoops if you say so. The three of us has less than 300+ follower combined on Twitter still we got more upvotes (and quality ones) than other products launched by « bigger » players.
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Just went through the product - absolutely amazing! The banners it generated looked great. Definitely recommend using this if you want to get some quick banners (or even banner ideas) for your product/service.
Landing page is great, love the little video/gif showing it all works.
Left some feedback after generating the banners. One piece of feedback I forgot to leave: when you select 'images from Unsplash', you only get 6 images and it looks like there's no way to refresh it either. I think expanding on that a bit will make it a lot easier to select great images for your ads.
But, all in all, absolute 10/10 experience. Keep it going, loved using this. Took me maybe 3 minutes to generate 5 great banners for https://earlyusergrowth.com.
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Thanks a lot @FrankHeijdenrijk this means a lot for us!
We received your feedback and i will come back at you later on today.
I saw the banners you generated they do look nice, there are still some glitches here and there, but hopefully the overall quality of banners will greatly increase in the upcoming months.
Our Unsplash integration is purely technical, and it will be greatly improved for our upcoming beta.
Fun fact: We got accepted on Unsplash partnership program by the end of the day of our launch (We sent our application a little bit late) and @LemRemy who is one of my cofounders pushed in production our Unsplash update from a bar at around 20:00 pm (French time)
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That’s a very nicely done landing page
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Thank you!
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Just tested it and a Nice service with huge potential!
Two things:
- it would be nice if we can have a live preview within all the ongoing process
- are you considering for saving all the data for later editing / reuse / duplicate. eg. maybe i would like to change the text a bit, or the logo, or the image of a banner.
Thanks!
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Thank you @zergione !
- Due to the nature of our algo it is quite difficult to achieve this and be relevant.
- Of course, we plan to add some additional feature including edition
We usually send a changelog for our updates, you can find them on our blog https://blog.abyssale.com/tag/changelog/
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Yep, I saw the changelog page. It's handy!
The live preview situation could help in case you misspell something or if you decide to try with another background. So you can navigate back and forth in the onboarding process.
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Congrats that's amazing! I really like your landing btw :)
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Thank you!
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Thanks @TonyMaguire and indeed as a designer myself I know the pain of creating these types of assets for marketing.
Considering that nowadays design teams are overwhelmed with a lot of menial tasks that don't bring value to the actual product, if this type of service existed when I was working in startups I would have directed the marketing team to use it, instead of bothering me with creating tons of banners that are meant to be consumed on a daily basis and for so have a limited lifespan.
Thank you for trying out our platform, as I said in a previous comment our focus is to bring as much value as possible by adding new formats, layouts, and decorations on a regular basis. The more people try out the system the more it helps us improve our algorithms.
Hit me up in our feedback panel on Abyssale if you are interested to be shortlisted in our closed paid beta.
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