Startup Bell
Chrome extension rings the bell when you have a new visitor
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Branimir

Startup Bell - Chrome extension rings the bell when you have a new visitor

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Receive a *DING* every time someone visits your site. Ideal for boosting the mood if you are a young startup that has just launched it's website.

- rings the bell every time you have a new website visitor;

- shows the number of real-time active users next to the icon.

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Ryan Hoover
Ha! Clever idea, but for many it's going to be insanely noisy. Idea: could you add a setting to only ding every X visitors, @ivbran? For example, if a site gets 5k visitors on a typical day, perhaps it dings for every 1,000th visit?
Branimir
Maker
@rrhoover Hey Ryan, thanks for stopping by! :) This certainly sounds like a great idea for future development. My idea was to be lean from the very beginning, starting with a small target group - early stage websites. That's why there are no settings in this version. :)
Hein Zaw Htet
@ivbran @rrhoover How about sales? ding every sales. it would be useful in Saas too.
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Branimir
Maker
@rrhoover @heinzawhtet This is in the roadmap, yes. In fact, the idea of Startup Bell came from this well-established practice in some of the sales teams, where they ring the bell whenever somebody from the team closes the deal. :)
Pranav
@ivbran @rrhoover @heinzawhtet Yeah! I second that too. Cha Ching! On every sale, that would be great.
Kristofer™
Love this. But will need a sound other than the doorbell so that my dog doesn’t go insane all day long.
Branimir
Maker
@kristofertm I have a cat so this never crossed my mind :D
Graeme
hah what if you can look at the referring site, and play a different sound based on where they come from too..e.g. from product hunt a cat sound
Branimir
Maker
@graeme_fulton ha! Not bad! I thought about different sounds based on different actions and achieved goals on the website, but this is interesting as well :D
Graeme
@ivbran yeah, the bell sound works great too, nice and simple
Ahan Sabharwal
LOVE this. So creative. Maybe allow us to use/choose our own sounds?
Kyle Stephens
This is a super cute idea. Good job :)
Branimir
Maker
@ky1e_s thanks, glad you like it :)
Kyle Stephens
@ivbran it reminds me of the quaint old country grocery stores where a bell would ring the moment you walk in the door (actually, that would be a nice sound to add! it's less of a doorbell sound, and more of a happy chime) I'll definitely be using this with my next product launch. Should help with motivation 💪
Kyle Stephens
@ivbran I'm thinking something like this:
Edward Vasquez
i started my project shuuka.com and for me its that a very interesting extension thank you very much :)
Branimir
Maker
@crowx I am glad you enjoy it, it is addicting, right? :D
Robert Ivanov

Ding dong - time to celebrate. Great little extension :)

Pros:

Works great

Cons:

As others have suggested: different events would be great for v2 :)

Justin Scheetz
Love the simplicity of this. Give me a volume option and I'll be happy! The bell is way too loud when I'm listening to Spotify. Dog keeps barking at me. :)
Branimir
Maker
@justinscheetz Haha, as I am cat owner there was no chance I could think it might be a problem :D. Thanks for sharing the volume option idea :)
Drew Dyksterhouse
This is awesome, perfect for those of us just starting out only getting a handful of site hits a day.
@Anna Shamkova
Great idea! It's really good for the young website, just to motivate - that yes, you have a visitor.. and one more, and more, and more. Very motivating. Actually, we can see the data in Google Analytics, but this Bell has another goal - to keep the website owner feel movement, pulse etc.
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