Comments on post “SmartBribe”
Deandre Durr☀️
@dredurr · Growth Hacker
As a marketer I understand why you are making us submit an email address before trying out smartbribe.
As a Product Hunter I absolutely hate submitting an email before trying out the app. It sends the wrong message to the community.
That you care more about your signup numbers, than demo-ing the product.
If you want positive feedback, you have to open the kimono 👘
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Bryan Harris
@harris_bryan
@dredurr Hey Deandre! I appreciate you checking SB out.
This is definitely something I thought about. But here is the deal...
We thought it would be disingenuous to tell other people to use SmartBribe if we weren't using and demo-ing it ourself. We thought about the best way to do that and decided using it like we recommend others to use it would be the best way.
This is how it works:
1. Find your most popular lead magnet
2. Install a SmartBribe on the TY page for it.
3. Offer some cool bonus content on that page
4. If peeps want in, they share. If not, they don't.
Hope that helps. Rock on!
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@dredurr I feel a lot of people do this more and more recently.
My biggest issue is asking for a phone number and no alternative to see app on App Store (from desktop).
There should always always always be a way to see how the product works.
"Growth-hacking" is hardly a decent way to get users long term, or that matter.
I feel this instance works best for things courses and markety stuff.
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Bryan Harris
@harris_bryan
@bentossell @dredurr There is a video on the landing page showing how it works. Can always watch that to see if it's a good fit.
But there really is no way around asking for your email (we don't ask for phone number), the app requires an account to use (so we can store your bribes and related info), so wether we ask for it on a landing page or the account setup page, it's kinda all the same.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@harris_bryan oh yeah I know I just meant for these "growth hack" style pages that I see and different versions of getting info. :)
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Alok Jariwala
@aaspire · Product Manager, Mobile
@harris_bryan your idea has assumption that people would already have subscribed it will subscribe. The challenge I am facing is how to get initial traffic on landing page and convert to subscribe before app launch . Example: I have app getting ready in mid April called www.choicys.com. It is food recommendation private messenger basically whatsapp + Yelp a layer above Yelp where we find restaurants and dish recommended from our friends. You can send shout out Ask or push reco. I have landing page in place but conversion very less. How do I let people know to visit the page ? Currently, I am taking food photos posting on Fb, Instagram, Fb groups and try to get relevant food lovers traffic. Can anyone here advice ?
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Dan Brooks
@ramtorn · Pro at Onboarding.pro
@dredurr Second that. I would also note that the tagline is catchy, but gimmicky at the same time
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David Carpe
@passingnotes · Thinker & Layabout
@harris_bryan well, then by virtue of feedback here, it sounds like your product may not have mass appeal for the PH types - but seems to work we'll with other groups...maybe a different kind of demo?
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Jimi Smoot
@jsfour · Founder @octaviuslabs
@bentossell @harris_bryan really? Real money and time goes into developing these applications. The least we can do is give our email to the ones that are interesting to us.
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