Mightybell - Build a community and a business on mobile

@samcole_digital @ginabianchini you can - gina (at) looking forward to it!

@helencrozier Thanks, Helen! Let us know how it goes and how we can be helpful. We're passionate about successful communities and have learned a ton along the way :-)

@masters212 thank you, Rachel! We couldn't agree more.

@bruno_rms Bruno, thanks for the kind words and giving Mightybell a spin. We love your evangelism. Two quick responses on the UX front: + Changing roles. It's definitely on our list of small tweaks to make. + For the newsfeed, three things to keep in mind: First, the Discovery page (click in the top search bar) is the quick overview of what's trending now for those who don't want to scroll. Second, the newsfeed is personalized for each member by Topics they care about and members like them. This means they don't have to scroll through everything to find things that are relevant. With mobile attention spans, we have to ensure the feed is instantly relevant to each member. And we do. :-) Third and finally, the vast majority of activity and traffic is happening on mobile - web and apps. For the ipad and laptop experiences, there is whitespace, but significantly less on smaller screens. Given this, we chose to keep the UX consistent across devices, so you learn it once and use it the same way everywhere. Appreciate the feedback and look forward to more, as you go. Thanks!

@ginab Thanks Gina! Awesome. Last question. Is it possible to change the language? We're from Brazil and would be great to change every text or button according to our country. Many of our community don't speak english very well! Wish you the best! ps: 99 month to 3k month O.o Big step haha

@bruno_rms Bruno - it's on the roadmap, but we don't have a date target yet. Thanks!

@marissadipasq Thank you, Marissa. We appreciate you being a part of the journey.

@chrispirillo I hope so because that's why we built @mightybell :-) (And great to reconnect, Chris!)

@ginab @mightybell - I'm looking to set a working "test" up today.

@ginab @mightybell - Signed up! Not quite sure you understand how you're promoting a key feature that prompted me to sign up, though (domain mapping implies complete domain mapping not just something tantamount to simple forwarding - which can always be done from the DNS registrar level). I clarified with support, learning that full branding is a premium feature. That isn't obvious right now. I'm not sure this is a service for nascent communities; if the domain is nothing more than an instant redirect to subdomain.mightybell.com, then even after a network owner possibly decides to make the leap to enable paid subscriptions to cover the cost (assuming they didn't outright), the domain and all of its links that were promoted and used over all that time (to build value and attention for the network owner / domain) aren't the network owner's own. Effectively, I went from being excited to try this to stopping in my tracks. I *am* considering it for other projects, but only when a paying subscription option is on the table up-front.

@chrispirillo @mightybell Chris, thanks for bringing this up. It's not a business model issue, it's a technical one, and something we're actively addressing (so, if you continue reading below, I have good news). First, we have a paying subscription option available today as part of our Indie plan. If you want to make your community paid, you can right now. It's up to you as the Host to decide what to charge and what you will include in their network that members will pay for. Obviously, you or any Host know your community better than we do. :-) As for domain mapping, here's the situation: we have full SSL across Mightybell. SSL domain mapping is not the simple masking feature that happens on Tumblr or was the case on Ning. In fact, until April 8th, no free service offered custom domain mapping with SSL. Only now has Wordpress - the largest service for hosted blogs - *just* announced the option (here: https://en.blog.wordpress.com/20...). In other words, what you are asking for is not common. Our team is small, and at launch, we included full SSL domain mapping in our paid plans because of the manual work involved in coordinating and provisioning everything needed to support it. It wouldn't have scaled at free. From there, though, we've been working on automating the flow from (1) getting someone's SSL certificate to (2) provisioning the proxy servers to support SSL domain mapping and (3) coming online. We don't yet have the UI for it, which is why you got the answer you got from our team, nor do any of our materials reflect this change because, well, we haven't launched it yet. However, now that we have this backend in place, if you were to reach out to us with your own SSL certificate, we can do the full SSL domain mapping at no cost. It's going to take us a bit to add the UI and update the site and materials to reflect the change, but for anyone reading this, drop our support team a note. As long as you bring with you your SSL certificate, we can make it happen.

@srebalaji Thank you!

@samir_doshi Sam - thanks for the feedback. As to what makes Mightybell unique, it's bringing together everything an entrepreneur needs in one service to create a community *and* a business on mobile. The alternative today is custom development or pulling together a frankenstein combination of different services and hope they work together. That's why we emphasize there's no coding or capital required to creating a thriving community and make it sustainable on Mightybell. Hopefully that's a bit clearer. And thanks again for the comment!