Paul Jarvis

YourPack - Create beautiful & simple directories for your community.

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Ben Tossell
This looks pretty awesome! When I get $400 I want to sign up for the founding membership. Loads of things I can think for this!!! Landing page may be a bit confusing. Would suggest making it easier for people to checkout the demo video.
PA
@bentossell have you seen this? We use it at my coworking space: https://slackdirectory.herokuapp...
Ben Tossell
@prestonattebery I havent - my reservation with that is that slack communities are difficult to do well with lots of people. This is interesting way to see who is in the collective group - not necessarily needing a slack group with it. Lots of groups can lead to an overload for sure. I have like 10 on my slack - look at 3 max (2 are work related)
PA
@bentossell Fair enough. We have a slack community for our entire building. Slack facilitates the day-to-day conversations while we have a directory for info reasons only. It's less of a way to "build community" and more of a way to organize info about the existing members.
Ben Tossell
@prestonattebery yeh for sure.. I think im thinking of it in terms of little projects I have ideas for - building out targeted, specific, communities around X
PA
@bentossell True, in that case. I would just create a basecamp and invite everyone involved.
Jason Zook
Hey PH'ers! @pjrvs, @zackgilbert, and I created YourPack for anyone who has a community and wants to give that community a place to meet, search, and further connect with other members. This isn't a social network. We aren't trying to compete with Slack. It's a simple tool that let's authors, online course creators, bloggers, vloggers, SaaS companies, Hummingbird Club Organizers, etc, bring all their fans/followers/customers together in one place to learn more about each other and connect. We didn't enjoy hanging out in Facebook Groups or on forums, so we built a product we'd want to use for our communities. We just launched Founding Memberships and will soon be moving to Monthly Memberships. You can view a Demo Pack here: https://demo.yourpack.co/
Jason Hitchcock
I'm looking for a free version of this. Anyone know an alternative?
Jason Zook
@jasonhitchcock what a weird question to ask here. but also, that's why we made YourPack, because nothing like it really exists :)
Jason Hitchcock
@jasondoesstuff seems like the perfect place for the question. It's a comment forum about your product and everything related, which often includes biz strategy and competitors. I see people ask questions like this all the time and I'm glad when I see an answer. Good luck with YourPack. Don't let my desire for a free version weird you out.
Jason Zook
@jasonhitchcock I understand and agree with you partially. The other part of me thinks, it becomes a bit of a highjack and takes away from the chance that this product has to get in the hands of people. But I also hear that argument that if something better exists, it should get acknowledged. We just could never find anything as simple and beautiful as what we've tried to build with YourPack (hence why we're charging money for it).
Amrith
@jasondoesstuff @jasonhitchcock but let there please be a free plan? will there be one?
Ryan Hoover
I'm very intrigued and dig the design, but the landing page leaves me confused as to what this is for, to be honest. 🤔
Joe
@rrhoover Same here. I also don't really see a feature list worthy of the cost.
Jason Zook
@rrhoover we wanted to zig a bit on the landing page... not go the standard route of icons, feature list, etc that all SaaS companies go. Plus, we can always adjust based on feedback like this :)
Nick Clement
I like this a lot, but $400 without a trial seems a tad punchy
Brendan Hufford
@nickclement It'd seem like it, but my thinking is that if you have an online community that provides you enough income to support your lifestyle, $400 isn't much considering the added benefit.
Jason Zook
@nickclement Hey Nick! Yep, we'll have monthly memberships and a free trial down the road, but we've found a fun way to launch our software products: Founding Memberships (giving our audience a great one-time deal) >> Once they're gone, close down membership and learn from users >> Once we've learned and added more features >> Monthly Memberships w/ trial yadda yadda :)
Nick Clement
@brendanhufford Or an online community that doesn't make much money but is a bit more altruistic?
Nick Clement
@jasondoesstuff Cool, nice idea.
Brendan Hufford
@nickclement Good point. My mom runs a nonprofit and she has people opt into a Google form and has a master sheet with contact and other info that everybody is then shared on. A great option if it's not a community that pays for itself.
Brendan Hufford
I got early access to this and have already started playing around with it. I think it's the future of how to connect your community online. Facebook groups aren't cutting it any more and even Slack has its limitations. This is FANTASTIC.
Joe
@brendanhufford Are you even able to communicate member to member through this? If so, it's not documented very well on the website (or the product video). It seems like it's _just_ a directory.
Brendan Hufford
@itsjoeturner yeah I don't think it's meant to be anything else other than that right now. Jason's reply above should be helpful. However, I've found that getting in touch with people in a community is SUPER easy. For example, I had a client slot available so I went into a community I'm on on YourPack, searched a few keywords that marked people I'd want to talk to, and then sent them emails about working together.
Jason Zook
@itsjoeturner @brendanhufford Hey Joe, we plan on having some member communication in the future, for now, it's just a super simple to create directory requiring ZERO technical skills or plugins to install.
Darshan Gajara
Kudos on launching a new product Paul and team.
Jack Smith
I've signed up to the mailing list. very interested in this and will try the trial when you're up and running. would like to know more about what features you have available.
Wes Vance
Love it! I created a pack for freelancers looking to connect, subcontract, and learn from each other. https://freelance.yourpack.co/ZF...
Victory Napitupulu
Interesting, looks like a globalised meetup.com that distances itself from the hometown concept.
Yuri
Potentially good. I want this. Price is expensive but understandably fair.