Shepherd Pro

Guide your users to the a-ha moment of your application!

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Guide your users to the a-ha moment of your application!

113 followers

Built on the popular open source library, Shepherd Pro improves upon the expandability of the library by adding analytics, advanced targeting, and in-app journey creator to ensure that you can guide your users to that a-ha! moment of your application.

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Launch tags:Open Source•User Experience•Developer Tools

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Shepherd Pro

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👋 Hey Product Hunt! We’re thrilled to introduce you to Shepherd Pro, a powerful new tool designed to transform the way you create and manage user journeys and onboarding experiences. 🎉 🐑 What is Shepherd Pro? Shepherd Pro is here to make product tours and user guidance seamless and effective, helping users navigate your application effortlessly. Our tool is built to empower you with the flexibility to create personalized, context-aware user journeys that enhance user engagement and satisfaction. 💡 Why We Built Shepherd Pro The idea for Shepherd Pro originated from our experiences with the challenges developers and product teams face when creating effective onboarding experiences. Many tools were either too rigid, lacking customization, or required frequent deployments to implement and change. We wanted to create a solution that strikes a balance between flexibility and ease of use, allowing teams to craft user journeys that are not only tailored to individual needs but are also easy to manage and adapt over time. By focusing on the real-world use cases we’ve worked on and the user feedback we’ve received, we built Shepherd Pro to be a comprehensive platform that grows with your needs, providing insights and flexibility without the complexity. 🚀 Key Features: 1. Advanced Targeting Options:

User Attributes: Customize journeys based on specific user details, such as email or user ID, to create personalized experiences.

Journey Engagement: Identify and engage users who are new to your platform or have not completed a specific journey.

URL-Based Targeting: Trigger journeys based on specific URLs, ensuring that the user receives the most relevant guidance at the right time. 2. Seamless Journey Creation:

Code-Free Configuration: Manage and adjust journeys directly within the Shepherd app using intuitive JSON configuration, eliminating the need for code deployments.

Dynamic Content Updates: Easily modify text, content, and step sequences to optimize user flows and adapt to changing user needs. 3. Comprehensive Analytics Integration:

User Engagement Insights: Gain deep insights into user interactions and engagement through integrated analytics, allowing you to measure success and identify areas for improvement.

Analytics Platform Integrations: Seamlessly connect with platforms like PostHog and Amplitude to track and analyze user behavior throughout their journey. 4. Open-Source Roots: Open-Source Flexibility: Leverage our open-source library for deeper customization and integration into your existing tech stack. 🎁 Special Offer for Product Hunt As a token of our appreciation to the Product Hunt community, you can use the code SPRO3MONTHSFREE at checkout to get 3 months free! 🤝 How you can help & get in touch: We’d love for you to try out these new features in Shepherd Pro and share your feedback. Your insights are invaluable and will help us continue to improve and expand our offerings. Feel free to drop any questions or comments below. We’re here all day to chat and help you out! If you have more specific questions, or want a live demo, feel free to book some time with me directly. Or, join our growing Discord community to see how other developers are building with Shepherd. Thank you, Product Hunt, for being such an amazing community. Your support means the world to us! Happy journey building! Chuck & the Shepherd Pro Team

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2yr ago

IMO, this is a great product and the homepage has huge potential. Lots of people agree because this project has 13k stars on Github. But, honestly, I closed out the website twice because I just couldn't make sense of it at first glance. I think the BENEFIT is very clear on the home page, but I don't think people get it right away when they land. What does the product ACTUALLY do? How does it deliver better user journeys? The image doesn't help, and many people don't have the patience to get to the features screen and read all the small text. Honestly, I think you just gotta say what this does: open-source, user guide, onboarding. These keywords should be in your tagline. I also think the product visual can be so much more animated. Just a few of my personal thoughts when I landed on a product and got confused what this product does. Congrats on the launch though @chuckcarpenter and team! Hope my honest personal opinion gives you one data point on how a completely new person may perceive your home page.

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2yr ago

Resubscribe

Hey Chuck, love the idea. The 'aha moment' is everything during onboarding. How do you track if the user has had that moment but still chosen not to convert?

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2yr ago

Lancey

This is really interesting. We aggregate user feedback & validate it with product events data. I imagine we could do the same validation with user journeys but perhaps with more context. Would be super interesting to combine the quantitative user journeys from Shepherd with qualitative user feedback that our client's have. Check Lancey out, we also launched on product hunt today.

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2yr ago

awesome idea and critical thing for founders, basically everything what we are trying on demo and oboarding calls is to get that aha moment :) Great job and congrats to your lauch! :)

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2yr ago

Telebugs

Hey Chuck, How granular does it get in terms of tracking user behavior through the journeys? Given the open-source roots, are there any plans to allow community contributions or extensions to the pro version? Congrats on the launch!

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2yr ago

Shepherd Pro

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@kyrylosilin yes, the pro extension is also open source and we'd welcome contributions! The events tracked are when a journey is started, each step clicked through, and whether the journey is canceled or completed.

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2yr ago

Great product, @chuckcarpenter ! Your advanced targeting options caught my eye, and I was wondering just how granular user attributes get. Is there a maximum number we can use, for instance? Also…can we set attributes according to business type and needs? This is where I'd include user subscription type, membership level, or specific product interests, for instance.

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2yr ago

Shepherd Pro

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@hennrunnel This some great feedback and the ability to target custom attributes would be a great enhancement. We don't limit the number of them at this time and it's easy to add more, but something custom per account could be very powerful.

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2yr ago

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User Attributes: Customize journeys based on specific user details, such as email or user ID, to create personalized experiences.

Journey Engagement: Identify and engage users who are new to your platform or have not completed a specific journey.

URL-Based Targeting: Trigger journeys based on specific URLs, ensuring that the user receives the most relevant guidance at the right time. 2. Seamless Journey Creation:

Code-Free Configuration: Manage and adjust journeys directly within the Shepherd app using intuitive JSON configuration, eliminating the need for code deployments.

Dynamic Content Updates: Easily modify text, content, and step sequences to optimize user flows and adapt to changing user needs. 3. Comprehensive Analytics Integration:

User Engagement Insights: Gain deep insights into user interactions and engagement through integrated analytics, allowing you to measure success and identify areas for improvement.