Q: Has something happened to the development of your product?
I checked your Roadmap on trello and nothing substantial has been completed in the last few months.
Any major feature dev is planned for either the next "3 months" or "6 months".
Something seems off..or maybe a long vacation perhaps? That would be fine. But my concern is if I purchased, the product may stop working or company may go belly up.
No such worries are needed :) Since the AppSumo deal started we released the Telegram delivery channel, MyPopUps collaboration and various little features. For some other features shown on the roadmap we realized we need to do some architectural changes (to build them on a sound foundation) which should be completed in 1-2 weeks. After that, there will be a significant speed up in new feature deliveries.
In any case, you don't have to worry about us going belly up. follow.it (and its predecessor SpecificFeeds.com) have been around for many years, and we'll keep investing into the platform. We're in it for the long haul.
to send messages independently from your posts/RSS feed, then for now, you cannot do that on follow.it (even though we're looking into that and it will be possible at some point)."
Glad to hear that regular email marketing campaigns will eventually be possible.
Will this be included in this AS plan when released?
Yes, at some point this will be possible (we'll probably enable this when we allow publishers to charge followers for their feeds too). However don't hold your breath - we got quite a lot of other feature requests which we now need to work on first :)
Q: Hi Nick,
- If we still send normal email newsletter broadcasts for our blog updates and also use Followit to ...
alert users, can we customise how the content design look like how we customise html for email newsletters?
- If we hit subscriber limit but don't want to automatically be upgraded to pay the recurring fee. Do we have the option to keep the limit to e.g. 6000 subs?
For now the format is as shown as mentioned above, i.e. https://bit.ly/3487V5x (if you only want to send headlines) or https://bit.ly/2EEWrOf (for "full story view"). Of course, you can replace the follow.it logo with yours, and remove other brandings.
Other publishers also requested more layout option, so we'll look into those too, probably first allowing publishers to define the colors (but keeping the basic structure the same), and at some point allowing more tailoring options too.
Regarding hitting the 6,000 limit: we never block any follower from signing up to your feed. If you go over your limit, but haven't uploaded any credits to your account, you'll only get an email from us, politely asking you to take out your credit card :) At that point, you can either follow our suggestion (thank you), or unfollow some of your followers (to get under the limit again). If both options are no good we may also implement hard cuts at some point, but we're not really fond of them.
Note that we're also working on other features to help you to stay below your limits, e.g. the feature to automatically unfollow followers who haven't opened or clicked any of your emails in the last e.g. 6 months.
Does that answer your questions? If you have other questions, please shoot!
Q: Will I receive emails about published posts, like I did from Feedburner?
Nick_TasteWP
May 15, 2024A: Yes, it's exactly like Feedburner.
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Q: Has something happened to the development of your product?
I checked your Roadmap on trello and nothing substantial has been completed in the last few months.
Any major feature dev is planned for either the next "3 months" or "6 months".
Something seems off..or maybe a long vacation perhaps? That would be fine. But my concern is if I purchased, the product may stop working or company may go belly up.
Look forward to your response. Thank you.
Nick_TasteWP
May 14, 2024A: Thank you for your question SaaSDeals!
No such worries are needed :) Since the AppSumo deal started we released the Telegram delivery channel, MyPopUps collaboration and various little features. For some other features shown on the roadmap we realized we need to do some architectural changes (to build them on a sound foundation) which should be completed in 1-2 weeks. After that, there will be a significant speed up in new feature deliveries.
In any case, you don't have to worry about us going belly up. follow.it (and its predecessor SpecificFeeds.com) have been around for many years, and we'll keep investing into the platform. We're in it for the long haul.
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Q: Hi, You mentioned "...
to send messages independently from your posts/RSS feed, then for now, you cannot do that on follow.it (even though we're looking into that and it will be possible at some point)."
Glad to hear that regular email marketing campaigns will eventually be possible.
Will this be included in this AS plan when released?
Thank you
Nick_TasteWP
May 15, 2024A: Thank you for your question!
Yes, it will be included, as AppSumo users are on the highest premium plan ("Super-cool").
If you have any other questions, just shoot!
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Q: Could I use follow.
it in the future to write the blog itself? so it would have a cname blog just like curated.co has for newsletters
eg: blog.segureo.com -> showing my posts
Nick_TasteWP
May 15, 2024A: Thank you for your question!
Yes, at some point this will be possible (we'll probably enable this when we allow publishers to charge followers for their feeds too). However don't hold your breath - we got quite a lot of other feature requests which we now need to work on first :)
If you have any other questions, please shoot!
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Q: Hi Nick, - If we still send normal email newsletter broadcasts for our blog updates and also use Followit to ...
alert users, can we customise how the content design look like how we customise html for email newsletters?
- If we hit subscriber limit but don't want to automatically be upgraded to pay the recurring fee. Do we have the option to keep the limit to e.g. 6000 subs?
Nick_TasteWP
May 15, 2024A: Thanks for your question Aura!
For now the format is as shown as mentioned above, i.e. https://bit.ly/3487V5x (if you only want to send headlines) or https://bit.ly/2EEWrOf (for "full story view"). Of course, you can replace the follow.it logo with yours, and remove other brandings.
Other publishers also requested more layout option, so we'll look into those too, probably first allowing publishers to define the colors (but keeping the basic structure the same), and at some point allowing more tailoring options too.
Regarding hitting the 6,000 limit: we never block any follower from signing up to your feed. If you go over your limit, but haven't uploaded any credits to your account, you'll only get an email from us, politely asking you to take out your credit card :) At that point, you can either follow our suggestion (thank you), or unfollow some of your followers (to get under the limit again). If both options are no good we may also implement hard cuts at some point, but we're not really fond of them.
Note that we're also working on other features to help you to stay below your limits, e.g. the feature to automatically unfollow followers who haven't opened or clicked any of your emails in the last e.g. 6 months.
Does that answer your questions? If you have other questions, please shoot!
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