During the day there are countless of decisions to be made.
Like what to wear (๐ or ๐), what to eat (๐ or ๐), what to drink (โ๏ธ or ๐ต), what to buy (๐ฎ or ๐), where to go (๐ฌ or ๐ช), or simply what to do (๐ or ๐). Swell is a fun app that gives you 100s of opinions from friends and strangers within in a few seconds.
@__tosh thanks for hunting us!
Check our invite-only experience with the code: NARWHAL42 - valid for 1000 users!
Swell is the fastest way to ask your friends for feedback, no matter where they are. Itโs an evolution of our app dvel, we successfully launched on PH a couple of months ago.
I'll be here to answer your questions the whole day and at SXSW from tomorrow!
@__tosh not yet. I give you some figures within the next couple of hours including number of sign-ups and early activity, since it's our pre-launch day today ๐ณ
Thanks @peterbuch for building Swell!
Its amazing how quick you can get decision on basically everything!
Love your colors and the friendly whale โฆ this really stands out.
@nicolas_gg glad you asked! Great question. Swell is focused on fast decision-making while Wishbone is about comparing anything to get opinions. Please do my a favor and try both at the same time with the same question. You will see how fast you get votes on Swell :)
@eholzbauer Hey Erich, thanks for your question. The main differences are:
- the design
- the location based feed (swell shows you questions nearby first)
- the neccassary re-branding for the US market
- the feature to tell your voters what you decided after the duration time of your card (dvel/swell). This closes the decision-making process and involves the voters even more
@stefan_fleig@eholzbauer we pitched dvel to around 200 people in the US over the last month and almost every single one had troubles with the name. 'dvel' doesn't work well in the U.S. market as it's pronounced either d-vel or devel, now swell ๐ณ
@stefan_fleig@peterbuch@eholzbauer on top of that, we wanted swell to be much more friendly and approachable especially for a bit younger crowd. To interact with swell should always be delightful & fun.
Simple concept, as many things that go viral. I'm seeing a lot of non user-generated content (generic google images) on the feed and repeated comparisons (such as Apple vs Samsung), what are your plans on keeping it fresh? Does it rely more on keeping Swell open to a close group of friends or is the idea leaning more towards an open focus group?
@phips28@smalzner Amazing design, awesome job guys! @peterbuch As you mentioned it's the evolution of Dvel. So how do you plan to migrate all of your users to Swell over the next few months?
@valscholz@phips28@smalzner great question, we didn't make a final decision yet. With Swell we focus on the US market, whilst dvel covers the rest of the world (we are out in 82 countries and 20 languages with dvel now).
It depends really on user behaviour in the US
@peterbuch dammit ;( I'm in trouble. I accidentally logged out instead of tap on Clear cache ๐ and now I can't login , it says wrong password or email. And I can't restore pass cause it's saying "we couldn't find your email" damn ๐ how I could fix it? Thanks in advance
@andrewmettinger for some reason people love to vote within' our app. So the people who are willing to provide their opinion are no problem at all. Right now we already have a couple of thousand users, did you give it a try?
Well done. I have this idea sitting in my notepad from 5 years ago, however you executed it much better than I would have. Nice idea creating a waiting list!
@marsh931 Hi Alex! Sorry for the late reply. The word swell is an old word, mostly used in the 50ies and of course in surfing. So we thought we attach a more teenage, young-ish attitude with the .wtf domain. A little controversy
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