Mindstamp
Create Engaging Interactive Videos in Seconds
#2 Product of the day on Product Hunt for October 23rd, 2018!
~3.1K traffic, ~130 new trials, and lots of great feedback ✨
⭐️ https://producthunt.com/posts/mindstamp
⭐️https://twitter.com/balindenberg/status/1054715289236070405
A user was referred to Mindstamp after another existing service was shut down. After a few days of emails discovering their use case and needs, they decided to become a customer!
Note: they will use Mindstamp for group training exercises involving video. These exercises happen ~4 times a year, so they won't need a continuous subscription, only a month or two at a time starting in October.
An early user's trial ran out and I asked them if they might be willing to pay. Turns out they already entered their payment info and considered themselves a customer 😎
Most of the code / structure was reused from Aech. Combined with Rails' awesome gems like Devise, I was able to get a basic alpha up pretty quickly.
After launching Aech, a social video annotation app, in August of 2017, I learned two things:
- Social is hard. A social web app in 2017 is even harder.
- The most interested parties saw the potential of video annotation for business rather than pleasure.
In January of 2018 I started doing user research to find out what a professional-focused video product would be comprised of and Mindstamp was born.
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