Survais

I haven't made any updates to the current live version of Survais (www.survais.com) in a long time. I've been rewriting it in newer tech stacks, migrating etc. but it might be time to call it quits with what is currently live.

So I've made the current iteration of Survais free to use for all.

I've upgraded all existing users to the power plan, and new users who sign up will also get the same treatment.

We got 25+ sign ups from launching on Product Hunt - granted it was a 'slow news day', we are delighted with the results!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/survais-2-0

Here is what we've been working on in April:

• Released Social Slides from beta 🎉
  • You can now add social slides such as YouTube, Spotify, Twitter, Soundcloud, Twitch, Instagram, and Facebook; directly in your Survais
• Release Survai Pages from beta 🙌
  • You can now generate a link and share the Survai directly, no code changes required! 🥂
• Added new filters for Survai types
  • You can also additionally search / filter based on the slide heading

We have also done a lot of work on the look and feel of Survais across mobile and desktop devices. Here is a list of all the other updates we feel is important.

• Removed Google Analytics from Survais entirely
• Reworked the item list view across Survais for both mobile + desktop
• Reworked sub-item buttons for both mobile + desktop
• Reworked the main navigation
• Added more content to the splash pages, with more to come - with thanks to help from some really great people over at IndieHackers!
• Improved all button groups across Survais for mobile
• Improved overal margins, spacing, and font sizes across Survais for mobile
• Added additional spacing in Survai Settings on mobile for reordering slides
• Improved tables on both mobile + desktop
• Opening the Embed or Survai Page modals will now automagically copy the code snippet for you 🧙‍
• Added a small box of impression details to the impression view - with more to come

April saw a lot of UI updates - which is great, and was well needed. We still have a bit of UI tinkering to work through in May, and we are sprusing up all of our landing pages in May too.

Thanks for stopping by the Survais Blog 😃

---

If would like to have access to Survais Beta features, reach out to us at shane@survais.com

This update was taken directly from the Survais blog, over at:

https://blog.survais.com/survais-march-2019-update

---

Within March, we've tidied up a couple of things and have a new feature coming down the lines too 🙌

• Added gradient style header backgrounds
• Added a new 'All Slides' view ➡ This displays all slides in one place for ease of navigation between them
• Added a new colour picker which makes it much easier to select custom colours 😍
• Added some embed examples
• Updated the Embed slide to be called Social slide (just makes more sense)
• Bugfixed some mobile stuff
• Bugfixed an issue with the Survai flashing twice on page load

We're working on a page style Survai, and we've released it into Beta in March. This will allow you to generate a link to a Survai that can be shared wherever you wish 🎉

We also hope to release our Social Slide, and perhaps even our page style Survai from beta in April.

Our focus for April is to give some much needed TLC to our UI inside and outside the application itself. With special consideration to mobile users 📱 Stay tuned.

---

If would like to have access to Survais Beta features, reach out to us at shane@survais.com

This update was taken directly from the Survais blog, over at: https://blog.survais.com/survais-february-2019-update

---

Here is a list of changes and updates we deployed in February 2019 😊

• Added the ability to change the text of the button that shows the Survai
• Added the ability to continue to show the Survai to users even after it has been completed
• Added a hide on mobile option (Survai will never show on mobile at all)
• Set up and launched this blog 🎉
• Added the thank you ❤ popup when the Survai is completed
• Added color previews across the board to the settings on Slides / Survais
• Deployed a HUGE visual update accross the entirity of Survais 🥂
• Added a new contact/feedback mechanism to the Survais web app (see the contact link in the footer)

Here are some beta features we have released this month:

• Added a new Social Slide that allows you to embed social services directly in your Survais

• Added YouTube Social Slide
• Added Spotify Social Slide
• Added Twitch Social Slide
• Added Twitter Social Slide
• Added Instagram Social Slide
• Added Facebook Social Slide

• Added a new Embed feature to allow you to embed Survais directly in your page content. This enables you to have more than one Survai on the page and is also great if you don't want the widget style Survai 😃

If would like to have access to Survais Beta features, reach out to us at shane@survais.com

It's been almost a year but a lot has happened. Three launches are better than two anyhow.

We've recently finished a complete rewrite of Survais from the ground up. It is now more efficient than ever, and in terms of development it is much easier to build upon (less technical debt going forward).

The homepage may be a bit lacking right now but there will be some content coming soon™.

We would love to get feedback on our current offerings so please do head over to www.survais.com and check it out.

We've decided to shelve live chat for now - but it may be something that we pick back up in the future. Working on the live chat functionality prompted us to relook at how Survais was originally built - and ultimately led to the decision of a rewrite.

We are already reaping the rewards as Survais is now much easier to build upon. We have some very cool social features (YouTube, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch) that are currently in beta, with more to come (Reddit, Imgur).

Survais is not just a surveying tool - although it's damn good at that too.

We took a step pack to analyse the potential technical debt and decided that a complete overhaul was in order.

In order to make Survais extensible moving forward, a change was needed.

As they say, a change is as good as a rest.

---

This post was written after the fact, and it took quite a bit more time than originally thought to get through the process.

Survais was featured in the 10words.io mailing list which provided a small number of clicks that I am very grateful for.

Additionally I took some leave from med school and will be working more on Survais - starting with live chat functionality.

Survais added a new type of slide - the call to action.

Simply provides a link for users to click on the Survais widget.

Additionally around this time:

• MailChimp can now be integrated into email capturing slides
• A bare bones WordPress plugin was released to make it easier to enable/disable Survais across your WordPress site

New features were difficult to add in the old state that Survais was in. The architectural design was not very extensible, and it was difficult to add new features.

So after months of being dormant from a development standpoint, Survais was completely redeveloped from scratch - which allowed for many things to be cleaned up and extensibility was kept in the forefront this time.

The old Survais could only ask multiple choice questions. The new Survais added:

• Email capturing
• Feedback capturing
• Information providing

Stripe was also added as our payment processor (there was none before - but no users other than me so who cared).

Development again goes sporadic after August 2017 as I headed back to med school.