Show HN: Whats New – A hosted way to let your users know what's new

https://whatsnewapp.herokuapp.com

by iwaffles • 8 years ago

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whatsnewapp.herokuapp.com

iwaffles2• 8 years ago

Hi everyone, I've put together Whats New App to scratch my own itch. It's a simple way to let your users know what's new in your app/website by copy/pasting a javascript snippet.

When it detects an existing user (identified by a user id, email, or whatever you'd like to use), it'll show them the new updates since the last time they visited.

It's helped me in a few of my projects keep users up to date. It's very new/beta. If you don't ant to sign up to check it out, here's a slightly older video demo: https://youtu.be/n4vmIsw2N3k

I'd love to know what you all think and I'm happy to answer any questions.

mtmail• 8 years ago

Nice! I've seen something similar called public changelogs with https://headwayapp.co/ Take that as confirmation there is a market.

Try to avoid processing of end-user's email addresses, e.g. ask websites to send you a hash of the email address or such, or immediately hash it after receiving. With GDPR and privacy in general having a database full of email addresses is just unnecessary data collection.

iwaffles2• 8 years ago

Awesome, thanks for sharing and thank you for the feedback!

Whomever implements Whats New into their website/app can pass in any data they'd like as the identifier (hash, email, id, nickname, etc) as long as it's unique. Great suggestion to hash it with regards to GDPR and unnecessary data collection. I should definitely work on encouraging people to shy from using email addresses.

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