90,000 lines of code later, we have the prototype
by Andrei GasparToday I was able to finish the working prototype for boardme that includes all of it's core features 🎉
Honestly it looks like absolute crap, but hey, it does the job - so from this point forward it's about polishing and fine-tuning.
I think it's time to schedule some demos and start showing it to potential customers :)
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This looks really slick, and is a nice idea, congratulations on getting to the mvp stage. I've subscribed as would like to try it out sometime.
I was initially worried about the MAU as thought it meant all visitors but if just for users using tours/signing up that makes more sense. Might be worth making that more obvious somehow.
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Hey thanks Kenny! Yeh the MAU terminology is the source of a lot of confusion, even for us lol. We were initially thinking to count it as a tour, but then quickly realized that's not scalable, since our servers could be bombarded with hundreds of thousands of requests, but the tours/signups could still remain in the hundreds.
So the approach I designed last week goes something like this:
MAU is a user session that gets our script (like google analytics), even if a tour or signup has not been triggered, BUT! (and this is important) we offer the ability to "cheat" the system, and only include our script for for newly signed up users.
So if someone takes decisions based on convenience, they can throw the script in the head section of their main HTML template like you would do with google analytics, and we count MAUs like google analytics.
However if someone is willing to go the extra mile and insert the script only to the pages that should be running the onboarding tour, then we count the tours as MAUs.
Would love to show you a demo when we polished the UI a little bit, would you be open to that?
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Definitely open to a demo when you are ready.
I would love to use this if I could control the cost, ideally cost would be aligned to no of conversions so there is a clear tie-in with value, but it probably doesn't matter much right now till you have lots of users and because you have a free tier for low usage.
I'd probably want to limit pages it was on anyway (to backend pages only for users recently onboarded, that sort of thing) - to avoid having too much js loading on public pages where it is not required and could slow down first page loads.
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That sounds perfect!! I think we can make the cost easily controllable from your end, I'll be in touch for a demo! :-)
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Hey Kenny, this is an excellent point! We will for sure go back and make this a bit clearer.
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Hello Andrei,
How can I get on a demo with you?
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Hey Philip, just drop me a pm, I'd love to show a demo and get some feedback!
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I would like to use the product whenever you are ready, whether its a alpha, beta. ( I am okay to be a test dummy)
Please email:
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why I want to use it:
- I hate keeping changing the custom coded tutorials every time we make product changes
- I rather have the ability for non-engineer to change the tutorials
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Congrats! Your landing page looks great - same for your other application (scrumbs). Are they custom build along with the screenshots and illustrations?
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Hey thanks James, that means a lot! Yep, everything custom made :)
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Congrats! That’s awesome!
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thanks!!
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Man, the design is dope. I love it!!! Very well done!
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So glad to hear that dude!! A lot of effort went into it, thanks for the kind words, it really feels good to be appreciated :)
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Signed up! Nice landing page, waiting to see what you gonna come up @andreigaspar
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Thank you Stefan 🙏🙏🙏
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Really nice homepage.
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Thank you, I appreciate that :)
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Congrats man. Amazing job. I liked the colors a lot.
Andrei, I have a question. Did you build the user authentication or you used Auth0? If you chose Auth0, what plan you are going with?
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Hey thanks Ali! Yep, I built my own, never tried Auth0 - is it any good? :)
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Andrei, I totally love your landing!
Do you have a video showing the product?-
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Thanks Neil! Not yet, but I'm planning to put something together. I made a video to show the live demo to my colleagues, but I'll keep that secret because it'll scare people away lol.
Something a bit more polished is coming down the line in a couple weeks though!
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Let me know when it's up! :)
Also, how long did it take you to build this? And how much time a week did you spend on it?-
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Oh for sure! Although still a large hill to climb from a prototype to a product. For example the Scrumbs prototype was functional back in February, and I was able to release it as a free product only a few weeks ago.
I started coding boardme about the same time as the Scrumbs prototype was ready, so probably February. I'd say the weekly hour count is somewhere between 10 and 40 a week, depending on the week, but maybe 25 average.
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Amazing job @andreigaspar!
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Thanks, Troy!
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Really interesting product and beautiful landing page!
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Thanks Andrea, really glad you like it!
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@andreigaspar you are a madman!
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lmao cheers dude!
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