Shoutout

Shoutout

Turn your free users into your growth engine

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566 followers

Activate your free users to power your marketing. Motivate them to create reviews, drive user acquisition, generate UGC and more! Reward them with free subscriptions, discounts, and cash credits. Slash your marketing spends and boost your reach effectively.
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Launch tags:MarketingGrowth HackingSaaS
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Vaibhav Sinha
Hey Product Hunters 👋 I'm Vaibhav, the creator of Shoutout. I'm super excited (and honestly, a bit jittery!) to introduce Shoutout to you all today—after months of caffeine-fuelled nights and brainstorming sessions, it feels great to finally hit "launch." The idea for Shoutout grew from a simple frustration: After launching my previous startup, we saw an immediate influx of users because it solved a significant pain point. However, our free-to-paid conversion rate was consistently under 5%. This got me thinking: how can we get more value from our customers? So, I decided to incentivize them to post about my product on LinkedIn by offering a free subscription for 15 days. Building this incentivization platform internally was quite a task, and that’s when I decided to turn it into a product itself. And hence, Shoutout was born. Shoutout does exactly that: 🎉 Customers engage by writing reviews, creating user generated content, pulling in new users. 🎉 Customers get motivated to take certain actions like - Book demo’s, upvote your product, fill form responses, engage with your team. 🎁 In return, they get free subscriptions, extended trials, exclusive discounts, or even cash credits. 🚀 It's a win-win: users get more from products they love, and businesses achieve more acquisition & engagement from customers. The best part, this all happens on auto-pilot. Why I believe Shoutout outshines traditional marketing: → Authentic voices resonate louder than polished ads. → Itʼs cost-effective—spend less while gaining more. Engagement boosts community spirit and brand loyalty. Iʼm hopeful that Shoutout will help businesses redefine growth and forge stronger connections with their customers. I will be here all day to answer any questions and soak up all the feedback you've got. If you want to take a quick walkthrough, I’d love to give you a demo. Can't wait to see how you grow with Shoutout!📣
Vaibhav Sinha
@jiteshghanchi Thanks :)
Paul Hill
Congrats on the launch, Vaibhav! 🎉 Shoutout addresses a real pain point in converting free users to paid customers by leveraging authentic user-generated content. The automatic incentivization for actions like booking demos and engaging with the team is brilliant. The win-win model of rewarding customers while boosting business engagement is innovative. Can't wait to see Shoutout help businesses grow! 🚀
Vaibhav Sinha
@paulhill8 Thanks. Glad you could relate with the problem statement.
Joy Ogide
@vaibhav_sinha1 Getting things done on autopilot sounds very good. I like the ease this platform would bring to businesses.
Vaibhav Sinha
@joy_ogide Thanks Joy.
Stefans Keiss
Great job on the launch, Vaibhav! Could you share more about how you track and analyze the effectiveness of the incentives offered through Shoutout?
Vaibhav Sinha
@memphys_sk Thanks :) Since we can run different kinds of campaigns on Shoutout, the way to measure effectiveness is slightly different. Acquisition campaigns: Here we look at the number of content pieces published by customers about your product/brand. The content pieces could be reviews, posts, videos, etc. Onboarding campaigns: Here we look at how many users complete the onboarding on your platform, and what percentage complete the incentivized steps in the onboarding. For example, let's say you have a product which supports Hubspot integration, and you ask the users to connect their Hubspot account to experience it, but it is not mandatory. To encourage more users to connect their Hubspot, you could incentivize this step. Once a user connects Hubspot, you just need to send an event to Shouout using our SDK and the users would be rewarded instantly. Engagement campaigns: In case of engagement campaigns, such as get getting your customers to fill a NPS survey, we look at the response rate.
Chinmay Relkar
Imo this is by far the fastest way to ship payment offers for SaaS. 🚀🚀🎉
Vaibhav Sinha
@chinmayrelkar Thanks Chinmay. Glad to have you as an early customer.
Gaurav Singh Bisen
@chinmayrelkar Thanks Chinmay! You can surely recommend us the next time folks come to you to create payment offers!
Andreas Sohns
I love the idea of rewarding users for sharing their experiences. It's a smart way to boost engagement and grow your customer base. Excited to see how this helps businesses grow!
Vaibhav Sinha
@andreas_sohns Thanks. Glad you find the concept interesting.
Gaurav Singh Bisen
@andreas_sohns Thanks a ton for supporting us!
Gaurav Singh Bisen
Hey Product Hunters 👋 I'm Gaurav, one of the co-creators of Shoutout. I'm here all day to chat and answer any questions. If you'd like a quick demo to see Shoutout in action, I’d love to show you how it can transform your business growth. Book a demo: https://cal.com/shoutout/shoutou... Let's connect and make growth happen! 📣
Prashant Chauhan
@thepmfguy Congratulations on the launch! Optimizing the sign-up to activation funnel is a challenge every startup faces, and I see that Shoutout is definitely addressing this need. 🙋🏻‍♂️ I have a question? Are you incentivising power users differently than new users? Power users are the best advocates for your product, and they can bring in high-intent users through word of mouth. Hence, treating them differently can help in driving better results for your product. Looking forward to seeing Shoutout's impact!
Gaurav Singh Bisen
@prashaaantin1 Hey Prashant! Thanks for supporting us. With Shoutout, you have the functionality to set the audience whether you want a particular offer to be visible to them or not? In case of power users, you can specific offers that are exclusive for them. Would love to give you a quick walkthrough of the product and help you in setting it up if you need. 🤝
Kehui Guo
Congrats on the launch! Through my experiences working in multiple startups, I feel the pain of low conversion rates from free to paid plans. Incentives are definitely needed and businesses need an easy way to hand out and collect profits from those as well. Really hope this can help smaller businesses to maximize their marketing campaigns!
Vaibhav Sinha
@kehui_guo Thanks Kehui. We hope for the same :)
Gaurav Singh Bisen
@kehui_guo The way we have thought about Shoutout is to make sure that incentives are in control based on the revenue company generates. That's why if you notice we have rewards which connects product benefits to customer actions. That's how we make sure that marketers don't have to spend outside the ecosystem and can run campaigns by attaching product benefits!
Alex Dulub
Hey Vaibhav, Congrats on the launch! Shoutout sounds like a fantastic way to drive engagement and growth. How do you see Shoutout evolving in the next year?
Vaibhav Sinha
@alex_dulub Thanks Alex. We have a few major features in the pipeline: 1. Custom rewards: Companies will be able to reward users with their platform specific currency, such as their own credits system, or by unlocking some features for the user. 2. User referrals solution 3. Analytics integration: Ability to send analytics events to your analytics solution of choice 4. A lot more widget customization options 5. Mobile SDK: To show rewards within Android and iPhone apps.
Sankalp
@vaibhav_sinha1 These are a useful set of features!
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