Famewall
Build a wall of fame with social media testimonials
After reaching out to a lot of founders and makers for feedback with Famewall, landed a first paying customer after getting to know about their pain points in the DM
They were happy to subscribe to a monthly plan once they came to know of integrating reddit testimonials
Realized that there are a lot of things which might work when you're building a startup. Being optimistic definitely helps you move forward :)
It's been 2 weeks since I began building famewall.io which makes it easy to highlight social media mentions as beautiful testimonials
While most of the essential features for the MVP are ready, just a few more integrations left 😅
Should launch the beta by this week to get feedback from customers :)
Though it boosts sales, it's quite uncomfortable to prompt users to share testimonials having to travel back & forth.
But social media on the other hand has the most vocal customers who would turn your website visitors into believers.
With that idea in mind, I'm currently working on Famewall - which makes it fun to build custom wall of fame with social media mentions from customers
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How would those testimonials be shown? Integrated within the website?
My main concern with adding stuff to my website is that I have to add third-party code, which leads to security/privacy concerns, especially with the GDPR rules nowadays.
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Hey @XCS So the testimonials will either be shown on your website through an embed code or can be shown separately as a wall of fame.
Regarding the privacy & security concerns since this is publicly available information on social media, there are no issues on that front.
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The privacy/security concerns do not come from the information displayed, but from the fact that the data is loaded and displayed from your site.
For example, recently a site in Germany was fined due to breaching GDPR because they had Google Fonts included, which sends the visitor's IP to Google.
If I include your script on my website, the visitor and traffic information from my site will be sent to your servers. How do you plan to handle this data?
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Right got it. So the wall of fame would be an iframe embed which only fetches the testimonials and will not be a script.
We actually don't store any kind of information when the embed is invoked.
Also if that's an issue there will also be an option to display wall of fame separately on a webpage under a custom domain.
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Congratulations! They say a paying customer is what differentiates between a hobby and a real business. Most of us never cross that line, let alone in such a short time.
I'm going to start cold DM-ing myself and I need to know what to expect. What was your success rate? How many DMs did you have to send before getting an answer?
P.S. I'm validating a landing page analytics tool for early-stage founders, would you be willing to have a 10min chat with me? I'll be happy to give you unlimited lifetime access, of course.
Hey Artem. Thanks for the kind words.
So my success rate was mostly 20-30% as I target customers who are more likely to respond. There's an extra bit of nuance that I also try to engage with their content on Twitter.
Sure will be happy to help you :)
Great, thank you, just DM-ed you on Twitter
Just saw it 👍