ToDoBot
Manage all your TODOs right in Slack
About a month ago we decided to turn on monetization for ToDoBot. There wasn't any specific trigger making us do that aside from the overall cost of all the projects we run getting to high. We came up with a rather relaxed "freemium" model where you need to upgrade only if have more than 10 open to-dos at one time on your list. We didn't have much hope for big revenue based on the usage stats we saw, but immediately after we turned on monetization, some teams did upgrade. Almost a month later, and ToDoBot already pays for its own hosting 🍾 Hope the trend continues 🤞
Hey, Indie Hackers!
We launched ToDoBot for Slack almost 3 months ago and saw tremendous growth since then. Almost 3000 teams signed up and created 30000 to-dos. Today we’re extending ToDoBot beyond Slack and introducing our new Chrome extension.
- View your Slack to-dos right in your Chrome
- Turn anything you see on the web into a to-do
- Instantly share it with your team
- Complete tasks wherever you do you work
Check it out on Product Hunt today!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/todobot-for-chrome
We've grown to 1700 signups with an ugly website and now it's time to change that!
@andrewfan spent 3 days digging through Webflow to build this beauty: https://www.thetodobot.com/
(Just for the reference, here's what I'm comparing it to https://www.dropbox.com/s/0aqo8phc3df8v9i/Screenshot 2020-03-17 23.00.10.png?dl=0)
Jokes aside, this page is very fresh and I'd warmly welcome any feedback and criticism. Please let me know if there are any typos or the messaging is confusing. Thank you!
P.S.
Special shoutout to another Indie Hacker @hlucas for building kampsite.co which we use for tracking feature-requests at ToDoBot
It started as a side project, we didn't put anything into marketing and we didn't expect it to spread this fast, but here we go!
Viral loops seems to be working well and we saw a company where 72 people tried out ToDoBot just 4 days latest after someone signed up.
We're going to keep adding small features here and there and see how it goes.
This weekend we added pagination and the ability to filter todos by channels so, you can manage reasonably large projects with ToDoBot.
Check it out at https://thetodobot.com
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Well done @maxim_leonovich! My colleague and I installed at work after I stumbled across this update - have a feeling this is going to be popular in my company. 220 people here, will spread the word for you :D
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Thank you so much, @wiggy! Please definitely let me know how it goes!
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Well done Maxim! There is no better source of traffic than referrals.
What's the engagement rate on these new users? Do they create todo's as soon as they create an account?-
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Thank you, @marcinem!
We actually just added Mixpanel last Friday and I'm yet to see two-week retention :)
On the surface it seems like a lot of people are using it, but the hard-proof isn't there yet
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This is exactly the kind of story I want to hear about, WELL DONE.
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Thank you!
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Happy for you!
So how are you spreading the word about?
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Thanks, Welly!
We've originally launched it on PH (not much effort, finished somewhere in the middle). About 150 teams came from there
Then someone posted about it on the Japanese equivalent of HN - quite a lot of people from Japan signed up
Then I published two articles, tried to spread them on hackernoon/Reddit, got ~1K views on each one
Now this update on IH :)
Also, I think, the name is quite SEO friendly and a lot of people find it directly in the Slack store-
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Curious what the Japanese equivalent of hacker news is?
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I think it was dev.classmethod.jp
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing, Maxim.
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Congrats! Trying it out. How are you going to monetize?
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Thanks, Noah!
Monetization is a big open question right now :)
We have several ideas and we need to test them all- simple freemium (just charge for the number of tickets after some threshold)
- integrate ToDoBot with bigger systems like JIRA and then charge for integration
- just funnel people from ToDoBot to onebar.io and monetize OneBar
If you have any ideas, please share! :)
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Awesome
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That sounds great.. All the best!
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Thank you!
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That's awesome man, keep up the good work!
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Thanks, Alex!
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He, IH!
ToDoBot is gaining extreme adoption both internally (for our own team) and externally - for our users. We added Mixpanel tracking just last Friday and the numbers look good - 350 active users over the weekend! We're yet to see what the weekday usage looks like :)
Also, we've moved most of our internal project management from Trello to Slack, added a few features to the ToDoBot to support that and wrote a post:
We were sitting in my living room, coding as usual when suddenly our notifications channel exploded. People were signing up for ToDoBot every few minutes and, what's strange, almost all of them were from Japan. Quick googling revealed the root cause - someone posted about us on https://dev.classmethod.jp/etc/todobot/
We don't understand Japanese, but I guess it's some sort of HN or PH but in Japan. Anyway, in two days we got almost 100 website visits and almost 100 signups - not bad at all! 1000 more and we'll start learning Japanese ;)
Hey, IH!
It’s been a week since we launched ToDoBot and it seems to be getting some traction!
We’ve been getting a steady stream of signup throughout the entire week, and got over 200 of them so far. The Product Hunt “afterglow” is fading but we still have some ideas on how to keep the fire burning ;)
One of the key features of the ToDoBot is built-in virality - people can easily share TODOs with each other and the app is supposed to spread within the organization this way. We saw some people doing that, but we’re trying to boost this behavior a little bit by bringing in some things from a game design.
Today we added a “hidden” feature to the ToDoBot - something that you can unlock either by tweeting about the app or sharing a TODO with at least 3 different people in your company. You don’t know what the feature is upfront, but once you complete the task, the feature reveals itself. (It’s a useful one, something you’d expect every TODO manager to have).
We launched it just a few hours ago and already got several people tweeting about us or unlocking it the other way. We’ve never done anything like this before so, super stocked to see how it plays out :)
Help us by spreading the word on twitter: https://twitter.com/todobot_slack
Thanks, all!
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Curious to know how this turned out — did the hidden feature bring in new customers?
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It's a bit hard to say, but people definitely tweet and we see traffic from Twitter on our website. I just assume some of it converts into signups, though not that much maybe
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Cool, do you know how much of your traffic comes from Twitter? I ask because I'm interested in featuring this tactic in IH Growth Bites (with a link back to ToDoBot) but need a little more info first. Thanks!
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https://d.pr/i/cowr9b - these are people who clicked on the referral link on Twitter. I'd say there are some but not too many.
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This is a story of how we got an idea on Sunday evening and had the app up and running, featured on Product Hunt by Friday.
I'm not a native English speaker so, forgive some roughness and point out at dumb mistakes, please! ;)
https://hackernoon.com/how-we-built-todobot-for-slack-in-3-days-jv6y364g
Hey, IH!
OneBar.io team here. Please meet a small side-project of ours - ToDoBot for Slack!
We were working on implementing the Home Tab for our main product and suddenly realizes that it would be so cool to put all our TODOs there. Slack is already supported on all platforms/all devices, UI is nice and we spend most of our days in it anyway. Said - Done!
Three days of hacking later and ToDoBot is approved in the Slack Directory. It can
- Add anything you DM it to your TODO list
- Show your TODO list in the home tab
- Let you check off items right from the home tab
- Let you use /todo to add new items
- Let you share TODOs with your teammates by simply mentioning them
And... it's FREE! (We hope that it'll drive some traffic to onebar.io though ;) )
Please let me know what you think about the product and support us on Product Hunt today!
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This is so cool and a pretty useful add on! Upvoted :)
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