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Re: Show HN: WhatsNew – Show your users new features since their last visit

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post #19

Nice idea. One piece of feedback though: I'd rather see a list of actual features , rather than a list of blog posts. In this implementation, I'd have to click through to each individual blog post to figure out everything that's changed.

From what I can tell, this is just a script that presents whatever RSS feed you throw at it (for a fee, no less! ;)

So presumably the solution would be to point it to something like "rssfeed.php?category=newfeatures" or some such custom concoction.

Re: Show HN: WhatsNew – Show your users new features since their last visit

#23

When I come to a website and see a pop-up box in the middle, I reflexively delete it without reading it. Is it possible to have the feed go directly in the main web page instead?

Hey cabalamat! We will be rolling out our next version in a couple of days which will have different options for showing the updates. One of them will be to embed an inline widget in your page to show the updates. That can be put up on the main page.

Re: Show HN: WhatsNew – Show your users new features since their last visit

#24
post #10

Love the idea. But I prefer to implement it myself to tailor it myself using some implemented functionalities. But thank you!

Do you have anything specific in mind that you find missing? We just launched and we are hungry for feedback to improve. Also, we have a JS API that lets you customize quite a bit - https://whatsnew.io/docs . Thanks!

Can you just release a library? (even a paid one if you feel the need)

This is silly to have as a service.

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