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Tyler Hayes
@thetylerhayes · Bebo
Gonna break it down, based on how I felt at each stage of discovery:
- Read the Product Hunt tagline: "Holy shit yes" (I have this reaction every time I see a new potential personal assistant service because it is a huge pain point for me, and I will never burn out on ones that fail because I know eventually someone is going to nail this problem)
- Read th… See more
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Tyler Hayes
@thetylerhayes · Bebo
Welp, checking back in already. Just signed up and now I see "You're in line, tyler@stayinyourprime.com! We'll email you as soon as your Beta preview of Airseed is ready!" on the site.
Feel a bit bait-and-switched because the expectation was never set that this was a beta invite process. I was really expecting to use the product. And now I've handed over ac… See more
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Love the play-by-play, @thetylerhayes. You exemplify how important micro-copy can be.
On a related note (and not to derail the conversation), I've been thinking about tagging products as (1) pre-launch, (2) launched, and (3) updated (diction, TBD) to better set expectations before clicking through.
Tyler Hayes
@thetylerhayes · Bebo
Niiiice. Could be useful, and sounds like the perfect A/B test
Frank Fumarola
@ffumarola · Product at Pinterest, Formerly Facebook
@thetylerhayes I also hate when there is no clear indication of a pre-launch product and they are just trying to get my email address. Even worse that 99% of the time the company doesn't even follow up. And the 1% that do email me to no end about irrelevant things (We just launched in X! ... well too bad I'm in Y).