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Thomas Schranz ⛄️

Magnify - Push out beautiful website announcements in 10 seconds.

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⚡Unlock a new marketing channel - your website!

Push out beautiful website announcements in 10 seconds and drive traffic to your relevant subpages.

Announcement examples:

- 📝new blog post,

- 📆upcoming event,

- 🌟new product feature,

- 📒a fresh e-book,

- 👨‍🏫️new webinar,

- 👥careers page...

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Jakob Marovt
Maker
Tnx @__tosh for hunting us today! Hey hunters 👋 For a while now I wanted to drive some of the traffic from our main website to time-relevant subpages. It’s cases when we have: - 📝a new blog post - 🌟cool new product feature - 📒a fresh new e-book - 👨‍🏫️an upcoming webinar - 👥a bunch of positions to fill - 📆or an event that’s around the corner. In all these cases I didn’t want to change the website itself. I just wanted an easy way publish… something. 📣That’s why we created Magnify. No design skills needed. It’s kinda like writing a tweet. A new announcement is up in 10 seconds. Give it a try and let me know what you think. We’re very early, so any kind of feedback on the landing page, value prop and the product gets extra ♥️.
Raman Ksaitor
@jmarovt love the simplicity on all fronts here. Product. Pricing. Language. P.S. on pricing page — make sure that packages are clickable and lead to sign up flows… you want to sell sell sell there! 🤑
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@ksaitor Ah, that's a very good point Raman. Will tweak now, tnx!
Martin J. Tschammer
Looks useful! Do you have any plans for multiple/custom notification styles?
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@mjtschammer Hey Martin, tnx! Current idea is to actually limit the styles as much as possible so you don't have to spend time thinking about it. Just change the text and link and hit save. So in conclusion - might add it, but no plans yet.
Thomas Schranz ⛄️
Hunter
Magnify to me looks like taking the simple & effective idea of hellobar to another level. Well done.
Rasmus Burkal
Awesome, love the idea here - I've seen this work very well on classic booking and e-commerce sites, love the idea about taking this promotional aspect of marketing to a broader online marketing context.
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@rabu81 Tnx! I think (or shall I say hope) it's really widely applicable this one. I think of it as a new marketing channel (besides email marketing, social media marketing). If you have a high traffic website you can now easily steer some traffic from the frontpage to whatever you deem most relevant at the moment (webinar, new blog post, new ebook, etc.).
Peter Mesarec
An excelent product and a good idea of making websites work better!
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@preseren Thanks Peter! ♥️
Mikkel Malmberg

Put Magnify on a few pages as soon as I saw it. Nice little product!

Pros:

Easy to set up and use.

Cons:

None yet.

Joakim Green
Awesome work Jakob & Gregor! I find Magnify very useful because of it's speed. I’ve been testing it a bit on our website lately and it's without doubt the fastest way we can drive traffic to different parts of our website without doing an extra deploy. In our case it's perfect to drive traffic to a landing page that explains our product in a general way and the show an industry specific feature (we just wrote about in our Intercom-powered Help Center) via Magnify. Also, we used to promote our open positions via a Intercom chat bubble. But honestly, that actually lack a clear CTA. The whole Magnify widget is a large and clear CTA which does the job much better! Best of all, all this can be done by a marketer. Even the installation via Google Tag Manager can easily be done by a marketer. Keep it up!
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@joakimgreen Thanks Joakim. You pitch Magnify better than myself. 🙏
Snow_Crash
Is there a way to test out notification on local env like port 127.0.0.1:8000 ?
Gregor Belcec
Maker
@ishaanbhola At the moment you can't use IP directly as "Targeting page", however it is possible to test it in the local environment using e.g. https://ngrok.com/. Once you have ngrok's public URL, you can use the app in the same way as on public sites.
Martin Jensen
I love magnify 🙏
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@martin_jensen1 Haha, the love is mutual ♥️
Simon Sylvest Rasmussen
Will this be the new rockstar in the world of doormats, pop-ups etc? It is likely... Love the idea of simply offering an easy-to-access intro to "company news" - has a nice honest tone to it. Will you be able to show different kinds of information dependent on different kinds of characteristic of the visitor?
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@simonsylvest Yeah, currently we made it super simple so no advanced targeting options. But definitely coming. Based on how fast @gbelcec ships, that might be already next week ;) 🚢
Carl Worricker

fantastic idea! so simple. I created and added an announcement to my site in less than 3 mins.

would be nice to be able to choose the position of my announcement i.e. bottom left, bottom right, etc.

Pros:

easy to use, easy to implement

Cons:

lack of positioning options

Jakob Marovt
Maker
Thanks for this Carl - will think about positioning. For now we just intentionally removed all options ;)
Carl Worricker
@jmarovt out of curiousity, why is that? for simplicity?
Jakob Marovt
@carl_worricker Yes. But I agree that of course we'll have to find a solution for it.
Andreas Duess
$40/month for a simple pop-up. That feels optimistic to me.
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@andreasduess Thanks Andreas, appreciate the feedback. The pricing is a part of the test too ;)
Andreas Duess
@gmail @celine_winchair_gomaz How can you possibly not trust somebody like this. I shall send him the fee so he can send me my inheritance by return mail.
Andreas Duess
@jmarovt especially when I can buy a lifetime license for topbar pro or any number of similar pop-up generators for $26.00 and under.
Elizabeth
Nice UX - question though - why use this over @intercom or @drift? @__tosh @jmarovt @gbelcec
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@intercom @drift @__tosh @gbelcec @elizabethhunker Thanks Elizabeth! Chat tools can in theory be used for this purpose with a bit of creativity, but that's not their main use-case. I think Magnify with its super minimal use case is a great complement to those tools.
Joe Speiser
Love the product and ux. Trying to contact you @jmarovt to acquire it. LMK!
Sune Theodorsen

Used it to help promote our launch in Paris and it's working out great.

Pros:

Drives traffic, super easy to setup, exciting roadmap

Cons:

None yet

Joakim Green

A more nifty way of promoting things to website visitors. For me Magnify replaces the traditional top bar and some intercom popups (when I rather want a clear CTA instead of chat)

Pros:

Easy to setup, Minimalistic design with clear CTA

Cons:

Lack of possibility to target pages based on "URL contains"

Gregor Belcec
Maker
Hey Joakim - possibility to target pages based on "URL contains" is now live ;) Thanks for this suggestion!
Jakob Kristensen
Love the simplicity of Magnify, great work - there is definitely a need for a tool like this focusing just on announcements instead of capturing emails etc. Super excited to use this tool and looking forward to see even more features being shipped!
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@heyjakobcom Thanks Jakob, really appreciate it!
Gonzalo Sanchez

It does one thing, and it does it beautifully. Love this kind of products.

Pros:

Super easy to set up.

Cons:

Not that I can see.

jlozano

Its use is ridiculously simple, that's why I use it.

Pros:

In simplicity is his genius.

Cons:

Nothing.

Victor
Very cool and looks slick. Products like this are great because they nudge you to push announcements more frequently due to easy of use. Great work!
Jakob Marovt
Maker
@vriparbelli Thanks Victor, that's exactly our goal: lowering friction to updating small bites on your website. Now everyone can do it in 10 seconds.