Show HN: Dopt – State machines and SDKs/APIs for your user flows Hi everyone, Dopt lets you visually model flows (which are state machines) to power your product’s onboarding and education experiences. We offer a React SDK that lets you create instances of those flows for any user of your product and exposes methods for transitioning the state of the user—effectively moving them through the flow. Dopt then acts as a persistence layer for the users' flow state. Dopt lets you send in data about your users (identify calls/properties) and lets non-devs define rules based on that data for which users should enter the flows. Non-devs can also update content and other custom properties that can be referenced via the SDK. For example, with Dopt’s SDK you can build: - a multi-step, interactive product walkthrough that helps users learn how to use a product by using it https://ift.tt/WpM59KY - a getting started checklist that helps a team get setup and activated https://ift.tt/ZmX6eR3 You can see a short 4 minute demo of how Dopt at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRvAp6Cnls We make iteration on your state modeling easy with flow versioning, and we even handle migrating your users between versions on the fly. Dopt's UI lets everyone easily track how users move through your flows and provides controls for enabling/disabling or resetting them. We’ll work right alongside your analytics and experimentation tools. We started Dopt because we’ve seen the teams building onboarding/education flows struggle with a similar set of issues that Dopt sets out to solve: - Homegrown onboarding is time-consuming to maintain (and it changes a lot!). The logic of the flows is complex and opaque to non-developers and devs are forced to be in the loop for every small copy, targeting, and logic change. - The customer and user data needed to show people relevant experiences lives in multiple places and is hard to build interactive experiences with (e.g. what’s their use case, what plan they’re on, what they’ve done in the product, what other teammates have done in the product, etc…). - Persisting and migrating user flow state is hard. The existing tools aimed at helping people put onboarding into their products frankly suck. They’re not built for developers, only offer boilerplate components, and have brittle integration points that are hard to troubleshoot. They end up producing mostly low-quality tooltip tours. We’re in a closed beta period right now but are looking to find more people building product onboarding and education that are willing to give Dopt a spin. We’re not charging for Dopt during our beta period and are just asking for feedback to help us learn how to make Dopt better. We’ll eventually start charging later this year (by monthly tracked users) when we go fully self-service but are planning on having a “free in-perpetuity” tier for small use cases to make it easy to evaluate whether Dopt’s valuable. We won’t pull the rug out from anyone who’s built with us during the closed beta. You can signup for our waitlist on https://dopt.com or drop us a note at info@dopt.com. If you mention HN we’ll skip you to the head of the line. We’d love any feedback on the site, docs, and examples too! https://www.dopt.com/ January 21, 2023 at 01:38AM
Show HN: Tape It, iOS recording app for musicians Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing. We had a great TechCrunch article covering our launch [3], and we posted it on various music websites. Turns out advertising on Google or Apple Search is a dark art, though. We have some good ideas for developing a good social media presence, but they will take time. Please hit us with feedback, opinions and advice that you think a young ind...
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