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hellolist.com

10 pointssevenadrian10 comments

I was building the MVP for another product, but after seeing tons of other pre-launch startups starting to gamify their waitlist (by letting users move up the list by referring others to sign up) I decided I want to take advantage of that too so I started building that out.

Then I thought, "hell, why don't I try to actually turn this into something?"

Three-ish weeks later, HelloList.com was born.

Take a peek! Going to try to make this something that nearly anyone can use to build a waiting list, so would love to hear any feedback on how to make it more useful.

It will probably be cool if you let users be able to customize the reward for inviting folks. For example, if I'm launching an app, it doesn't matter if you're number 1 on list or 1,000. Everyone will still be downloading at the same time when the app is released. Perhaps some users will want to customize such that when you invite 20 friends, you get x, when they sign up, you get y.

Good concept though.

Thanks man!

HelloList can definitely do that (need to make that more obvious), mainly because it's just a simple platform. People sign up and promote it and such, and on the backend you get an ordered list of all the entries including info like who referred them, number of referrals, when they signed up, ordered by their rank (can dl it as a CSV too). Whether you let just the top 100 in your beta for free, give everyone who referred >3 people something, give the top 500 people a "badge", or etc., is entirely up to those building the list.

Cool idea, simple and effective! Wish you good luck.

One thought about pricing: limits are very bad. Let's say I pay you for the plus plan. Once I get over 1000 what happens? Do I loose mails? You don't want that to happen to your customers: provide recovery options of some kind, or change revenue model.

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awesome catch, thanks man!

Getting 'Email can't be blank' error. Also, https barks at me...

I like the idea, keep pushing...

weird, was this on the example on hellolist.com, or on a list you had somewhere?

Can you provide an example page?

Yup, there's actually an example right on the home page right under the hero. Enter an email to sign up for "PicExample"

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