Show HN: Easy interactive product tours with Bootstrap theme support
easyproducttours.com
easyproducttours.com
I would definitely use your service for my next client projects.
Feedback:
1. Do whatever so that users will know your app exists in the first place.
First get known to lot of potential users. Let them know your app exists in the first place, then think of Bmodels. Charge little to none!
This kind of app needs more visibility and recognition across the web. Then everyone will recommend and refer your app over-time. It should only get better over time. So don't charge more. Give it at a throw-away price. Reach all top blogs, top/newly launched products and give them to use free, with your branding. ( Your product is the easiest to get known, because of the nature of the app)
2. Long-term: Build a branding around.
When someone thinks of product tours your app name should be synonymous with tours. Always think this way, and do whatever to achieve this. ;)
3. Add a referral service.
If someone recommends and links back, give them 1 month extra? Don't pay back anyone for referring, but let them use your product more and spread the good message.
* And do reach me out, if you need any kind of help. :)
1. Yes, we are planning on writing a few blogs emphasising the need for product tours, which we will be including in our 'cold call' sales emails to newly launched apps.
2. Branding: we chose 'Easy Product Tours' for easy remembrance and google-ability. We think we can build a decent brand around that name.
3. Sounds good. We'll give some thought to how we can implement a refferal program.
1. User-tracking: we track which users have seen which tours and this data is persisted at our backend. So people are mot repeatedly shown the same tours and distracted from using your app.
2. Apart from including the tour player script you dont have to make any changes to your existing page.
3. We support using your aites own custom Bootstrap themes out of the box, so you dont need to spend time customiZing the look of your tours.
2. It seems that if you were building a page to be a product tour, you could build the page to be a product tour.
3. What exactly does that mean? What properties does your product inherit from the Bootstrap theme?
2. The difference is there would be a separation of concerns. The tour functionality should not be part of your app. It should be a separate layer.
3. The tour tooltips will take over the CSS styles of the bootstrap theme you are using. So all the fonts, colors, button styles etc. will be similar to those you are already using on your site.
But the design choices are a little baffling to me. Why are all the corners so sharp on everything? And what's up with the bright blue colors? I know that this is mostly because you're trying to not just use the Bootstrap defaults, but the result is inferior to the default theme. As soon as you can, try to get a designer on board.
If you are not using bootstrap, or if you are using the default bootstrap theme on your site, then the colours and corners would be as defined in that theme.
We made it like this so that you dont have to waste time getting your tours to match the look of your site.