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Tell HN: We'll write your lifecycle emails for you if you sign up for Userfox

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As a side note I love the logo. The fox as an envelope is perfect - especially for this concept!

my buddy Sean Farrell did it. incredible work. incredible, see his portfolio: http://dribbble.com/brandclay/buckets

he did this one - that we never used, but i felt like it had so much potential that it sits on my desktop waiting for a usage - http://cl.ly/MOYS

FYI, your "Learn More & Sign Up" button links to https://userfox.com/, which gives me a SSL cert mismatch error. https://www.userfox.com/ works fine, however.

gross. thanks i'll fix it.

Great idea, as is this growth hacker marketplace. Question, though: in your showcase/marketplace, will you be able to show how much of an impact said growth hacker or tactic has had in the past?

yes. absolutely. i want to turn growth into something that is reproducible, and early tests show that you can reproduce what works for one business, for another, assuming you have the data to create boundaries. (a high level learning for example is that we've learnt sending emails multiples of 7 days after a user signs up, provides superior conversions than multiples of 6 or 8.)

wouldn't it be ridiculously awesome if you wanted to hire a copywriter, and you saw their before and after stats on their work? talk is talk, but data is data.

advertising/adwords is something where results increase as you spend more money, and i want to do the same with application growth. or something.

Yes, I've wanted something just like this for awhile. I even bought the domain tactical.ly with the aim of building something like it. I just wouldn't have had the data to back up whether specific tactics would work or not. Obviously your plan is to use your platform to back up their assertions.

great Saas idea. I was toying around with this idea like 9 months ago w/a friend. obviously we never did anything with it, glad you guys did.

There are a lot of people in this space, and some have now fallen by the wayside.

You have:

- Customer.io

- Intercom.io

- Mixpanel

- userfox

- Pipewise (deadpool)

getvero too.

Yep, and others I'm sure I've forgotten or never discovered.

I was thinking JUST the transactional/retention emails as a service, which is what this seems like. the others are more on the analytics side (at least mixpanel is)

"This is a limited time offer, we're not Color or anything. But hopefully it'll whip Hacker News into a frenzy."

I see what you did there.

Making it easy for business to spam customers.. no thanks.

making it easy for businesses to tell a story of why your product is valuable to a user that has explicitly signed up

From the landing page:

  Day 1
  Welcome! ...
  
  Day 4
  Check this feature out... ...
  
  Day 7
  It's been a week: 
  how are we doing? ...
  
  Day 14
  Become a power 
  user like Zach... ...
  
  Day 30
  Your free trial has expired ...
  
  Day 45
  Want to extend your trial?

This is spam. Usually, I give my e-mail as a way to identify myself to a website. I accept that they send me a confirmation e-mail to see if it's a genuine user. But after that, it's all spam.

> "I accept that they send me a confirmation e-mail to see if it's a genuine user. But after that, it's all spam." It's ok you feel that way, but not everyone thinks like you.

I think the whole point is making your customers not feel spammed.

So don't send them e-mail.

How long is this deal going on for? I still gotta get my act together.

until we get swamped. few days or a week probably.

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