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Show HN: WebEngage Notifications

28 points by acharekar 14y ago

gecco 14y ago
Great! how do you plan to price it?
- avlesh-singh 14y ago
  To begin with, we'll roll it out for all our customers with restrictions on the number of clickthroughs for each of our plans - http://webengage.com/pricing http://webengage.com/pricing .. later, we plan to roll out each of our products separately with their own pricing as well. The basic paid version of Notifications will be priced in the range of $10/mo.
il_ 14y ago
Suggest you fix some of the typos in your screenshots, i.e. discountine = discontinue. Otherwise looks good!
- avlesh-singh 14y ago
  Fixed. Thanks.
  - bmelton 14y ago
    Also "that let's you create notifications" -- should be "lets you". Also, next screenshot has a title of 'baby cots', but the message below it advertises 'baby cotes'.
    - avlesh-singh 14y ago
      Fixed both. Thanks :)
sonicaa 14y ago
I liked the "attach a screenshot of this page" feature. Keep up the good work.
aerotrain 14y ago
Is there any javascript API to use your layout to show simple messages instead of any pre-created notification? Basically I would like to use one messaging UI to show your notification with all targeting specified as well as my custom messages (like error/sucess messages)
- deleted 14y ago
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- avlesh-singh 14y ago
  Yes, there is one. We'll build smart notifications on top of the API. Once we gain some confidence using our own API, we'll make it publicly available.
nischalshetty 14y ago
I can think of quite a few use cases for use in our products. I especially like the idea of broadcasting a downtime if we intend to go down for maintenance. Also, apart from sending emails to our users about new feature launches, we can use this to make sure our users don't miss out on the new features. Wish you luck, this seems useful to any website that wants to keep its users informed!
swatantra-kumar 14y ago
How is this (technically) different from tool already running on mashable.com | blogs.hbr.org ??
- aerotrain 14y ago
  Aren't those simple wordpress plugins giving relevant suggestion from the database? Not sure if they allow us to customize those messages.
  - avlesh-singh 14y ago
    Yeah, for the blog use-case you can call us similar. But yes, we will let you tweak the snippet (title, description etc) for the notification once generated.
- avlesh-singh 14y ago
  In a couple of ways - 1. WebEngage notifications can be "targeted" - it means you can choose to pop the message only to visitors meeting certain criteria. E.g. only to visitors coming from Google search, only to visitors spending 30 seconds on pricing page etc. 2. Smart notifications will automatically fetch updates from your Twitter/Blog/FB etc and create a notification out of it. 3. WebEngage notifications will have a definite call-to-action and the analytics will be focused on proving you a lot of BI around clickthrough rates.
- acharekar 14y ago
  Well, so you are able to create notifications from your twitter/fb/linkedin etc. Few use-cases are well discussed in the post and I am sure their are many more. Also, it mentions "We’ll be adding complete customization capabilities (colors, targeting etc) to Notification." So there is going to be a layer of targeting. (see this http://webengage.com/features/survey-and-lead-generation http://webengage.com/features/survey-and-lead-generation | first para talks about targeting) Analytics around notification displays, clicks etc are going to be very insightful, I am sure.

28 points by acharekar 14y ago

gecco 14y ago

Great! how do you plan to price it?

avlesh-singh 14y ago
To begin with, we'll roll it out for all our customers with restrictions on the number of clickthroughs for each of our plans - http://webengage.com/pricing http://webengage.com/pricing .. later, we plan to roll out each of our products separately with their own pricing as well. The basic paid version of Notifications will be priced in the range of $10/mo.

il_ 14y ago

Suggest you fix some of the typos in your screenshots, i.e. discountine = discontinue. Otherwise looks good!

avlesh-singh 14y ago
Fixed. Thanks.
- bmelton 14y ago
  Also "that let's you create notifications" -- should be "lets you". Also, next screenshot has a title of 'baby cots', but the message below it advertises 'baby cotes'.
  - avlesh-singh 14y ago
    Fixed both. Thanks :)

sonicaa 14y ago

I liked the "attach a screenshot of this page" feature. Keep up the good work.

aerotrain 14y ago

Is there any javascript API to use your layout to show simple messages instead of any pre-created notification? Basically I would like to use one messaging UI to show your notification with all targeting specified as well as my custom messages (like error/sucess messages)

deleted 14y ago
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avlesh-singh 14y ago
Yes, there is one. We'll build smart notifications on top of the API. Once we gain some confidence using our own API, we'll make it publicly available.

nischalshetty 14y ago

I can think of quite a few use cases for use in our products. I especially like the idea of broadcasting a downtime if we intend to go down for maintenance. Also, apart from sending emails to our users about new feature launches, we can use this to make sure our users don't miss out on the new features. Wish you luck, this seems useful to any website that wants to keep its users informed!

swatantra-kumar 14y ago

How is this (technically) different from tool already running on mashable.com | blogs.hbr.org ??

aerotrain 14y ago
Aren't those simple wordpress plugins giving relevant suggestion from the database? Not sure if they allow us to customize those messages.
- avlesh-singh 14y ago
  Yeah, for the blog use-case you can call us similar. But yes, we will let you tweak the snippet (title, description etc) for the notification once generated.
avlesh-singh 14y ago
In a couple of ways - 1. WebEngage notifications can be "targeted" - it means you can choose to pop the message only to visitors meeting certain criteria. E.g. only to visitors coming from Google search, only to visitors spending 30 seconds on pricing page etc. 2. Smart notifications will automatically fetch updates from your Twitter/Blog/FB etc and create a notification out of it. 3. WebEngage notifications will have a definite call-to-action and the analytics will be focused on proving you a lot of BI around clickthrough rates.
acharekar 14y ago
Well, so you are able to create notifications from your twitter/fb/linkedin etc. Few use-cases are well discussed in the post and I am sure their are many more. Also, it mentions "We’ll be adding complete customization capabilities (colors, targeting etc) to Notification." So there is going to be a layer of targeting. (see this http://webengage.com/features/survey-and-lead-generation http://webengage.com/features/survey-and-lead-generation | first para talks about targeting) Analytics around notification displays, clicks etc are going to be very insightful, I am sure.