Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I'm building a system that automates onboarding

boardme.app

11–15 of 15 posts

Re: Show HN: I'm building a system that automates onboarding

#11
post #10

Have you thought about how your solution differs to Appcues and Intercom Tours? Just curious, as my team tried to build a solution like this but struggled to differentiate in the noisy space that is visual onboarding tools

Hey thanks for your message! Honestly I don't think those tools are accessible for the common folk. They're building complex and expensive onboarding solutions that onboard your users, make you a meal, massage your feet, and do the dry cleaning for you.

We just focus on launching a fun to use and intuitive app, that does one thing and it does it right.

I'd say just because there's Jira on the market, doesn't mean Trello has no room. Quite the contrary, I think more people use Trello on a day-to-day basis - and probably an average of about 5 features lol.

Re: Show HN: I'm building a system that automates onboarding

#13

Whew, I'm building an app for employee onboarding and your site gave me a heart attack because it's so beautiful. I signed up for early access.

Your comment just made my day man. I really appreciate your support and kind words, it's not easy for an indie out here lol.

Re: Show HN: I'm building a system that automates onboarding

#14
Great work - this looks very cool. We'd be very interested in exploring it. We started looking into https://www.appcues.com/ but their pricing seems prohibitively expensive. They have a nice Chrome extension that allows nontechnical folks to easily create/customize the onboarding/tooltips for your app -- curious how your snippet will guide users through creation.

Really excited for you!

Re: Show HN: I'm building a system that automates onboarding

#15
post #14

Great work - this looks very cool. We'd be very interested in exploring it. We started looking into https://www.appcues.com/ but their pricing seems prohibitively expensive. They have a nice Chrome extension that allows nontechnical folks to easily create/customize the onboarding/tooltips for your app -- curious how your snippet will guide users through creation. Really excited for you!

Oh that's great news! It's definitely going to be more accessible in terms of pricing, not even in the same ballpark as appcues. One additional thing is that we're allowing users to "cheat" our MAU system, by only including the script in pages that will make use of the script. This can cut down cost by more than 90%.

The onboarding setup should be super duper intuitive for non technical people as well! We're planning to release a video demo of the alpha version shortly, I'll be in touch!

Post reply on HN