Collab Spot

After nearly a year of working on the project in my free time, Collab Spot has finally launched! Collab Spot is a platform that allows teams to iterate 5x faster on any website. With it, you can turn any website into an interactive canvas where your entire team can leave comments, create and assign tasks, and visually edit the design. To put it simply: Collab Spot does for website editing what Google Docs did for document editing.

You can check it out here: https://www.collabspot.io/

On Tuesday, August 2nd, Collab Spot was introduced to the world via our Product Hunt launch. While this didn't result in a massive influx of users, it did give us our first pieces of critical feedback that will allow us to make Collab Spot better for everybody. The first thing we are revising: pricing.

The initial launch had a fairly minimal free tier that would allow users to create a sample product, but placed limits on the ability to leave comments on inspect the website. The new free tier is far more broad: it allows users to have 3 active projects at once, invite unlimited collaborators to join them, and enables the ability to leave as many comments on your website as you like.

This preserves the collaborative experience on the free tier, while also providing a strong incentive to try out Collab Spot's paid plans, which unlock features such as the creation of to-do lists and the ability to visually edit your website (which automatically generates code on the fly for rapid implementation). We are going to continue to build out the free tier and add powerful new features as they continue to be requested.

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