Slick.events
Create event websites and sell tickets - from Google Sheets!
It's been a while since I did anything concrete with Slick.event but this weekend I built the payment flow for the app so that I can start asking people to pay for the service once the free trial is over. I also felt creative and created a new event website template that better highlights the actions you want your attendees to take - ie purchasing a ticket for the event.
This service mostly target people that create physical events, which for obvious reasons are not really happening right now. I can just hope that the covid vaccination process picks up and starts running more smoothly.
As of today, whenever someone registers for an event created by Slick.events they will automatically get an invoice! This is sort of exciting and something that really helps the attendees with their accounting for the expense.
I hoped to be able to sort this development out in one evening but it turned out it required a bit more effort than that, then I realised, what good is it do launch a new feature without documentation. So I had to spend some time on that as well :)
Please check it out and share your feedback!
About 2 weeks ago I launched Slick.events and I have already managed to get 20 users - but more importantly received some really good feedback.
"Hey, really like your product, I feel we need documentation ASAP"
"I just tried your app and i didnt really get it at first but when I saw that I make changes to my Google Sheet and my event website is automatically updated I felt that it was really cool".
Thanks to that and some other great feedback we added a couple of things to Slick.events, documentation being the more important one (you can find it on our website).
Some other nice features we also launched are:
- Premium design: Make your event website stand out even more with an ever nicer looking website design.
- Attendees receives email receipts upon successful registration
We are working on completing another really interesting thing, more about that in the next post.
It's sort of exciting - my second launch on product hunt (first time for Slick.events) - expectations are high - as always.
But I'm trying to be realistic...
I believe that Slick.events is quite suited to the audience found on PH so I've set some goals for my launch - it's always good to have goals with most (if not all) things that you do.
My goals for todays PH launch are:
- Get 10 comments on my product listing (so that I can learn what people think and get feedback)
- Get 5 signups (so I can get feedback from people that actually used the product).
I'll write an update after today to summarise the launch and my learnings.
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Cheers
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It did not go as I hoped. :(
I wasn't featured on the first page until later in the day (so was below the "fold" for most of the day).
Did manage to get a handful of signups though and 90ish unique visitors - but no comments so the aim of gathering feedback has not been accomplished.
Today we got Slick.events approved by Google so now we are looking to get the first couple of users.
What is Slick.events you might ask - and why should I care?
When organising events I mostly find my self in having to download a list of signups and share it with other people that help run the event. The lists quickly become out-of-date and sharing personal data in this way isn't ideal from a privacy perspective.
So I started thinking - why can't I setup my event website, registration form and sell tickets from a Google Spreadsheet.
That way I have all my data on one place, I can easily invite collaborators, add comments to registrations, and of course, leverage other services like Zapier or Automate.io to send notifications to my slack channels, add Trello cards etc.
Sounds interesting?
Then head over to https://Slick.events and manage your first event from Google Sheets! I would ❤️ to get your feedback!
It took a bit longer than I initially thought to get this done. One part was that I spent more time with my family during the evenings and weekends and another was that the Google API's where a bit tricky to grasp at first. A couple of late evenings banging my head against the wall finally sorted things out.
There are a couple of things that I really want to get done from my backlog, just release it already :) - aiming to launch a beta in a couple of days.
There are many event website builders out there that let's you create a somewhat nice event website, sell tickets and collect registrations - but all of them keep the data in their application which means I have to download it to do planning and other things ahead of my event.
So I started thinking, what if I could create an event website, define my registration form, setup my ticket batches and collect signups all from a Google Sheet that is stored in my Google Drive.
This started an itch in my head, I haven't built anything meaningful on top of Googles API's before so I started reading up on how the work..
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The kids are sleeping so now its time to celebrate with a glass of wine and some tv or a good book.