Honestly appreciate the feedback. I think we have a few things to address, but especially these two:
- Make our "pitch" better adding more info on our login modal, especially on what exact feature set to expect, and what's behind a paid Pro plan (the Profiles feature is completely free though)
- We definitely need to add custom domain support to Profiles, but it was just out of scope for the MVP. I'd love to have it myself, it's high on our list.
Glad to know it’s high on the list. I’d personally be happy paying a small surcharge for it. I’ve looked at making whatever I end up building to solve this need for myself into some kind of SaaS and I’m aware how much of a PITA user provided domains can be with regards to SSL certificates, so I’m not at all surprised it didn’t make the cut on your otherwise nicely polished MVP. (Automatically merging thread / multiple posts definitely isn’t on my own MVP haha)
I hope my feedback didn’t come across too brutal. I’ve just been looking for good replacements for Syte2 as a personal feed aggregator since Atlas mongodb got dropped from the heroku free tier (cause of the mongodb inc buyout) neatly 2 years ago and their and Syte3 got way too complicated with the lambda and dynamo and too much JavaScript for me thanks… I’ve been slowly building my own replacement for literally years since a redirect to Twitter solves 80% of my need (other than visual branding and control) so whenever I come across a product that might solve this, I charge forth eager to hand over money if it’s a good fit, since I know it’s hard work, except every damn one either isn’t ready, is abandoned, is a bespoke enterprise social engagement platform that wants you to “talk to us for pricing. It’s slowly building up a layer of cynicism that’s probably leaking out into how harshly I judge any new product I come across at this point.
But like I said, it is a polished flow to your primary product which looks good but I just have no need for and I’m just a picky customer for your new feature with a specific need you don’t support (yet). The world needs more products to pull some control back from the major social platforms, even if it’s only control over presentation!
That's true. The core difference here is that Typefully will unroll your threads and you can set a title, so in RSS readers they will show as proper blog posts.
Hello, I love that idea, but at this time we want to make the product focused on the experience of Twitter creators, so we feel like it makes sense you make you publish on Twitter and on your Typefully Profile simultaneously.
So yes, it mirrors the content, but you control your Typefully Profile and you get an RSS Feed that you can plug anywhere.
That being said, this is just version 1.0 of Profiles, and we'd love to give users even more control, and possibly allow to publish directly to their Typefully Profile, or export their content easily to other platforms as well.
Hi, Typefully was born as a simple web-based text editor with a preview of how your text will look on Twitter.
While we added many features to empower Twitter creators, at the core it's still a thread writing app, and now users can publish their threads as "unrolled" blog posts.
What makes it fundamentally different is that it's the Typefully user that decides to unroll their posts and share them, and they can preview the unrolled version while writing, so it's optimized for this use case.
based on the materials i didn’t realize you’re also a tweet-writing app
instead i understood the product as a tweet-preview service
maybe you should make clear that typefully is a twitter publishing tool while showing both the editing and the preview capabilities on your marketing page
To give some context, we indeed make these "side projects" hoping to drive signups and engagements to our core projects (Mailbrew and Typefully), but we always do them with the same care of main project, focusing on utility and user experience.
Typefully itself, now an essential part of our business, was born as a Mailbrew side project.
Even Feeds Mage, while it may appear silly to some people, could actually be further developed to become a great discovery tool for the Twitter social graph. In a way these projects are always also long terms bets for us, even when they're small bets that took 2 weeks to build, like in this case.
> To give some context, we indeed make these "side projects" hoping to drive signups and engagements to our core projects (Mailbrew and Typefully), but we always do them with the same care of main project, focusing on utility and user experience.
Doesn't seem like it's done with the same level of care though. I checked the other projects, and although Typefully for example follows almost the exact same aggressive flyover popup thing that obstructs interaction with the background before getting that number counter to flip one more time via a sign up, it still has the "try instead" link.
FeedMage still does not. For a service that was built in 2 weeks, adding a tiny hide button shouldn't take more than 3 days.
While you're free to do whatever you see fit for your business and brand, I'm just letting you know that people pick up on this. IMO tactics and darkpatterns like this are the root of a lot of awfulness on the web (but that's another matter). To me this is really disrespectful to your company's user base and the fact that it's still (checked as I'm typing this comment) doesn't have a close option sort of proves it. Even those aggressive ads have a tiny albeit hidden "x".
Hey, just wanted to let you know I've just pushed a "low-energy" mode that will remove some elements and effects on screen. On my Mac (MBP with M1 chip) it makes the webview go from 40% CPU to around 10-15%.
- Make our "pitch" better adding more info on our login modal, especially on what exact feature set to expect, and what's behind a paid Pro plan (the Profiles feature is completely free though) - We definitely need to add custom domain support to Profiles, but it was just out of scope for the MVP. I'd love to have it myself, it's high on our list.