Shoutworks

No code Alexa skill creator for Wordpress

No Employees
Multiple Founders
Founders Code
AI
B2B
B2C
Bots
Communication
Content
E-Commerce
Email Marketing
Growth
Home Automation
Investing
Marketing
Music & Audio
Podcasting
SaaS
Sales
WordPress

With 200+ million Amazon Alexa devices and over 4 billion Alexa-ready devices worldwide, there's never been a better time to use these little devices to extend your reach and engage your people.

May 21, 2020 Just got hunted!!?? Live on Product Hunt!!

Here we were, diligently planning our Product Hunt launch, when BAM we were hunted in the middle of a Thursday!

My first reaction was "nooo" but then I thought, you know what, it's pretty cool to have someone think Shoutworks is worth hunting in the first place. Plus it's kind of like the bandaid's just been ripped off - we may have avoided a bunch of stress!

Anyway, go upvote us! Gogogogo https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shoutworks

April 25, 2020 First paid customer!!!

Woo! It finally happened - we've had 1 person sign up for a Shoutworks account and made our first charge after his 30-day free trial was up yesterday! Feels great! :D

We have been trying to get people on the system for a little while, but hadn't really invested in marketing until recently. Now with our email marketing system up and running, we're driving some small traffic, but looking to boost it some more.

March 10, 2020 Finally finished Stripe integration, ready for $$

We had a few persistent bugs in the signup flow, especially around taking credit card details with Stripe, but after exhaustive testing and a lot of work with our developer we finally have it working. Now to try and figure out how to get people to sign up.

We had launched early with a "free for life" plan while working on the regular sign up flow, but we can finally start putting users through. We decided to make a 30-day free trial the default, and to take credit card details up front. Let's see how it holds up, we may have to change up our strategy.

For background, we have a 9.99/mo Standard plan and a 4.99/mo Nonprofit plan, with billing starting after the 30 day free trial.

Would love feedback! https://shoutworks.com/

March 8, 2020 Got the first 5 strangers to use the product!!

Pretty cool feeling! Also scary. But really cool to see all the dominoes falling in the product... first signup, then starting to use the product, then actually seeing Alexa Skills created and submitted without us touching anything!

I posted about https://shoutworks.com in a couple of huge Wordpress Facebook groups, and so far about 10 people have sent us an email expressing interest. Of those, 5 have started to use the product after we gave them the Free For Life coupon code. (Just send a quick email to [email protected] and we'll hook you up.)

Feeling like that's okay for so little effort on marketing. Of course, we've invested a ton in the product, getting our website to look good, etc.

The best part is the fact that our first few free users found their way through the product enough to get to the Skill Publish finish line within the first day of sharing it with them.

Already getting some new ideas for things to build to make it easier/better!

March 5, 2020 Releasing early to 100 "free for life" users!

Our core team of 4, plus web design contractors, have been working for over 3 months to pull this off, but we're finally ready to get some users on the platform!

Working with the Amazon Alexa platform has not been easy, but we've produced the following:

  1. A WordPress plugin that takes your content and turns it into an Alexa Skill.
  2. A set of APIs and backend script that automates Skill creation, testing, and publishing.
  3. A slick website that manages signup, login, and subscription.

And now we're ready for the world to see it! We are selecting a limited pool of early users who are willing to try it out, give us feedback, and go along for the journey with us.

If that's you, just send a message to [email protected] and we'll answer straightaway :)

November 28, 2019 Came up with the idea

Around the table with 3 of us cofounders, we began talking about what the next big platform shift in software might be. One of us had ridden the wave when personal computing took off, and we were speculating what the next big wave would be. It struck us that voice could be it: Amazon, Google, Apple and others have been quietly integrating voice assistants everywhere. The fact that there are over 150 million individual Alexa devices in the US, and growing, was the thing that tipped us. And they're mostly just used for weather, music and timers, it turned out. Why not more? We had to start looking into what we could do to enable the next shift in this platform. We think Shoutworks might help get more people producing content for it, and with more good content, usage might start to pick up in big and new ways.

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With 200+ million Amazon Alexa devices and over 4 billion Alexa-ready devices worldwide, there's never been a better time to use these little devices to extend your reach and engage your people.