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triumphantomato

This is super cool work, congrats! I've been looking for a good low/no-code tool to build a static website to sell some assets I've developed, wondering if TypeDream can fit the bill.

How easy is it to:

+ A/B test pages (e.g. for conversions)

+ Measure user interaction to understand incoming referral, bounce rate, time on page, user journey, etc.

+ Integrate with other automation tools like n8n.io

I'm new to this so apologies if some of this is better served by other tools (suggestions welcome!).

For example, in addition to the stuff above, i'd like to:

+ send transactional emails to customers who buy a product

+ send update emails to customers when the product gets an update

+ add orders to Airtable/Google Sheets to track sales (these could be handled with some automation integrations like n8n)

On the site itself, is it possible to:

+ allow comments (simple way to do this might be to include a twitter post with the article URL, displaying the twitter replies as comments on the TypeDream website)

Thanks and really cool work!

Oh that's really cool. To answer your questions:

- A/B testing: not supported yet, although we are thinking on building this. Would love to learn more from your use case! - Incoming referral, bounce rate, time on page are available through our built-in analytics. If you're familiar with Plausible https://plausible.io, we're using their self-hosted version to offer the analytics feature, so you should get everything they offer. - Not familiar with n8n.io, looks like it's similar to Zapier. We don't have any integration like this yet, but most functional components that you can add to your Typedream site (like forms, waitlist, etc) can be done using HTML embeds. For example, to add a form, you can embed an Airtable form in your Typedream site. This means that any automation supported by those tools can be used.

With that said, interactions such as allowing customer to buy a product, sending emails, and adding orders to Airtable/Google Sheets can be done by using a third party service, like Stripe Payment Links to allow users to buy a product, then use Stripe's functionality or Zapier/n8n.io integrations to send emails or add orders to Airtable/Google Sheets. This is also the case with comments, for example you can embed https://commentbox.io/ into your Typedream site to enable comments.

Hope this makes sense!

thanks for the reply! will have to check out Stripe's email/orderflow integrations, didn't know about those :)

does TypeDream support custom email domains? (example: myemail@mysite.com)

re: A/B testing - my use-case is pretty simple. i have some assets i'd like to sell and want to A/B test what landing page converts the best (could also be useful to A/B test what landing page converts to the highest price/longest subscription if someone's selling subs).

alternative use-case -- A/B test what article titles lead to the most search engine (or other inbound referral) traffic. let's say i have a set of content i've created, i'd like to have test same blog post with different article titles to know which one performs the best

does that help?

Here's a link to the Stripe payment links https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links.

For email domains, we don't handle your emails. You could use any email provider that you want, like MailChimp, Sendgrid, etc. Since connecting custom domains doesn't require you to point your nameservers to Typedream, you can add MX records, etc. that is usually required for you to set up your email provider.

Thanks for your explanation on A/B testing, that makes sense and we have had a couple of similar requests as well! This is definitely something we're looking to add as a feature.

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