I don't think it's quite there yet.
I was very excited to try this out, however I don't think it's quite ready yet.
The sign up process is quite unclear, and wasn't made clear that you have to effectively add yourself as a sub account to your own account to access the software.
The templates don't work too well in displaying images, and I struggled to make it look anything like the demo. Putting the featured image beside the prize specifications, instead of lost at the bottom of the page would be great.
The floating logo header doesn't work properly on desktop.
I really wanted this to work with Instagram, however, there's no ability to encourage people to follow a certain account on Instagram to gain another entry. This would have been a massive selling point.
The whole thing does feel a little spammy. If I received an email from a friend asking me to enter a competition, I wouldn't. If I got a message through social media, I probably would. This is a feature that should definitely get implemented.
So close to being perfect and I look forward to future updates.
TravisKetchum
May 9, 2024Jack,
Appreciate your candid feedback.
Sorry to hear you felt a bit confused about needing a sub-account when using an Agency account in order to start building a contest. An Agency account without sub-accounts does give you big call-to-action on the home view to create a sub-account, but perhaps we can add additional context here.
RE: Images, we give suggested image sizes in all the areas that support images (Logo, Featured Image, Share Page Images, Facebook Preview image). When following the specificied sizing the images should fit pretty nicely. A common issue with the logo is that people upload huge images, even though we give a recommended max height value.
For desktop, if you prefer a featured image to be along side the content as opposed to below, either of our classic templates fulfill this exact need.
In terms of Instagram, there is no contest platform on earth that can actually award points for a successful follow on Instagram because that platform has significantly hampered what's available to developers. We absolutely could, and frankly should, add a standard call-to-action button to go follow your IG accounts though, so that's great feedback.
As far as the email invite portion, if you feel strongly against having that feature turned on, you can simply leave the email refer-a-friend disabled (which is how it's set by default). But keep in mind roughly 1/3rd of all successful referrals come from the email portion as it vastly outconverts social referrals for the same number of clicks.
Again, I sincerely appreciate your feedback. We hope to continue improving the product moving forward and we are thrilled to have you here along with us for the ride.