@orenbarzilai Great to see this launched :) Have seen many people use it and had signed up but I don't spend enough time curating articles to share to make use of it just yet. Think it's a great product. What is the most common piece of feedback you have received? At what point in the onboarding/first uses does it usually stick for your users? I know I used it once of twice but didnt again, but this has a lot to do with my content situation and not so much your process :)

@bentossell @orenbarzilai Hi Ben! Thanks for the kind words :) The most common feedback is about the product's seamless experience, and how we can make it better. For example, the big advantage of the product is that it's fully integrated with services such as Buffer, HubSpot and Oktopost, so we get ton of integration requests with more services. Regarding to the onboarding, usually it takes a few mins to finish the flow and in the last step most of the users connect a social media service, and that's it - you don't need to come back every day to our product to use it.

@yuvals @orenbarzilai awesome :) definitely key for a product like this to be seamless and integrate easily. You should speak with @danielkempe to look at an integration with Quuu ;)

@orenbarzilai Congrats on the official launch, guys! StartAFire is such a fantastic tool, it's great that even more folks in the tech industry will have the opportunity to use it!

@jma245 @orenbarzilai Thank you Jennifer!

@bramk Thanks Bram! We really appreciate all the love & support (and awesome GIF!)

@bramk Great hunt. I've also enjoyed integrating StartaFire with my Revue newsletter. Excellent use case.

@urbnist @bramk Thanks for sharing Lucas! Truly appreciate it :)

@rrhoover I agree, it's got to be used selectively and intentionally — not broadly and as much as possible (which is likely how most will)

@rrhoover Agreed. It's a bit irksome to click the 'x' to close the popup in order to have the actual URL saved to Pocket/Pinboard.in/etc. On mobile, the tiny 'x' doesn't seem to even redirect to the embedded page. I think I'd like this more in the context of the experience of viewing an email digest but in the browser - something where part of the user value is keeping the sharer in mind.

@shari_pw Thanks Shari, your feedbacks were very valuable. When we get great insights it's always fun to put it into the product.

@paul_s_kemp Thank you Paul 🙏 - So glad to hear your enjoying start A FIRE! We truly appreciate all your support :)

@meghkeaney Indeed it's a growing ecosystem. We are very lucky to have you from the beginning.

@ohadaviv Thanks Ohad! I appreciate it. Keep up the great work with Muzli.

@mikaelpittam Thanks Jason! We are ready to take on the new year ✊

@danr_4 Hi Dan and thank you for bringing this up. The attribution given to the one that shared the link comes to fix the broken situation in which the content sharer is actually generating traffic for the content owner but gets nothing in return. With start A FIRE what the sharer gets in return is a small and very non-intrusive badge added for attribution. It's very far from being a "branded page". If content owners wish to have their site blocked on start A FIRE all they need to do is send us an email. However in this case the site will lose traffic due to that. Some publishers approached us in the past and after we explained we don't copy the content but act as a proxy, all decided to opt-in. This is why we've put up the About page (as you noted) to explain this better: http://startafire.com/about/ start A FIRE does not act as a sandbox, it is applied only to the content being shared. Every click on any link on the page will take you to the source site. Attribution is only given where it is deserved. As with every changing ecosystem, it takes time until everyone is at ease and get used to the new situation. If once most of the content discovery was driven by home pages and editors - it is now driven more and more by social and our friends finding the best content for us.

@odedgolan @danr_4 I'm not sure it's as broken as you say. Actually, I think your product will make it even more "broken". This celebrates the clickbait generation of the internet. You say it isn't intrusive, but the product is forcing the users to unknowingly browse content owners' website through your proxy. This might not be intrusive for users, but it is extremely intrusive for content owners, even if, as your About page says, it is all transparent. You could have gone the other way - embedding the product on the actual content owners site with their collaboration, so the sharer will get his attribution, but the site will keep it's users. Then what is the content owners motivation? they can now have their badge displayed on your network of publishers. Just a thought nothing more. It will probably be less effective, but certainly more fair, and less broken. In an ideal world, the majority of people are well educated about the internet. I am assuming that educated people will never except this as a plausible situation - surfing the internet through proxies for the sake of marketers. Again, I think this product is brilliant! I really do. But as my title says, I try to be honest, and I honestly think these kind of products do more harm than good for internet experience. on a more positive note, it's great to hear that links take you to the source. What about dynamic pages? (Ajax/SPA) I'm having thoughts of phishing attempts and problems with https, but can't think of anything concrete. can to share your thought about the issue?

@danr_4 Dynamic pages and SPA still have href tags and those are directed to the source site. It was a great challenge (and still is) building this system and maintaining the right behavior for each case, both on the technical and user aspect of it.

@kim617 Thanks Kim :) We really appreciate your positive feedback!

@greaterthan1000 That's awesome Sam 👊! Thank you sharing those insights :)

@alikafridi Thanks Ali! The product will remain free, but in the future we hope to add premium features.

@danielkempe Thank you Daniel!

@erwblo Thanks Erwin :) You rock ✊

@donfontijn Thanks Don! (we didn't forget about your request :))

@dredurr Thanks Deandre! We completely agree 😄 Really appreciate all the support 👊

@planetmitch Thank you for the feedback, that's an interesting idea. Can you please email me the plugin name and your WordPress blog and I'll find a solution? yuval@startafire.com

@igcorreia Glad to hear that :) Feel free to email us if you have any questions or feedback - we'd love to hear them!

@mordodemaru Thank you Mordo! What features are you missing? We're always working on improving start A FIRE for you guys so we'd love to know :)

@nataylor24 @mordodemaru What about some detailed analytics on how it performed?

@mordodemaru That's a great suggestions and we hope to add in more analytics later in the future :) We'd love to hear what kind of analytics you're looking for - could you share :)?