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Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by scapecast »

My immediate thought was "man, this is going to be so useful for so many people". I'm saying that as a non-coding founder.

One immediate thought for a feature (you may or may not have already thought of this...). A picklist of options for "how did you hear about us?"

That will help marketing and sales to get more granularity than the usual 80/20 split between "referral" and "direct" in Google Analytics. With all the brand-building efforts like newsletters, videos and podcasts going on - traditional "last touch attribution" tools like Hubspot or even multi-touch tools like Bizible don't capture brand.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

#32

Post by jacobovidal »

scapecast wrote: post #31

My immediate thought was "man, this is going to be so useful for so many people". I'm saying that as a non-coding founder. One immediate thought for a feature (you may or may not have already thought of this...). A picklist of options for "how did you hear about us?" That will help marketing and sales to get more granularity than the usual 80/20 split between "referral" and "direct" in Google Analytics. With all the…

That’s a typical feature you can add to your signup flows: asking where did you hear about us, the user role, etc. To better qualify users and focus on the ones that matter: triggering email sequences, displaying different walkthroughs, etc.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

#33

Post by SkyPuncher »

masa331 wrote: post #13

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it. But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhap…

This is a very traditional development view. "Build it and be done with it".

Signups are the gateway to your product. Often times, you need non-technical team members to be able to experiment and iterate with them. This type of work is often boring work for the engineering team.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

#34

Post by runako »

ollerac wrote: post #23
runako wrote: post #17

Congratulations on the launch! This looks really awesome, and I plan to try it out for a project I am working on. A feature request: I would absolutely love to have something like Arengu that also handles the rest of the boilerplate SaaS stack. Key is a branded user portal with a billing area (I should just give it my Stripe keys and let it generate the screens); user/team management, etc. To give an example: if you…

I believe you're looking for something like Outseta ( https://www.outseta.com/ ) They're a membership platform that supports: - Payments - Sign up forms - CRM - Authentication - Content protection - Email marketing - Help desk - Notifications Pretty amazing if you ask me. I have no affiliation with Outseta, but I do follow the founder on Twitter.

Thank you so much! This appears to be exactly what I am looking for, and then some.

This is exactly why I keep coming back to HN.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

#35

Post by jacobovidal »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #33
masa331 wrote: post #13

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it. But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhap…

This is a very traditional development view. "Build it and be done with it". Signups are the gateway to your product. Often times, you need non-technical team members to be able to experiment and iterate with them. This type of work is often boring work for the engineering team.

Thanks for the feedback, I totally agree with this. We often see this mindset but its a matter of education or push the product from non-technical teams.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

#36

Post by jacobovidal »

scapecast wrote: post #29
masa331 wrote: post #13

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it. But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhap…

Because of the opportunity cost associated with building a sign-up flow. That means I can't spend my time working on a feature that's core to my service / application.

Agree with this statement. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

#37

Post by motoxpro »

masa331 wrote: post #13

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it. But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhap…

I wish my site was simple enough to have one of the most complex and important pieces only take two hours of work. That would be the dream.

I think that "And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs" part is the difficult part. Not so much implementing the "Getting Started" tutorial from Firebase or Auth0.

Nice job on taking on this problem guys

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