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Whatโ€™s your opinion? ๐Ÿณ
Thomas Schranz โ›„๏ธ
Swell โ€” Whatโ€™s your opinion? ๐Ÿณ
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Thomas Schranz โ›„๏ธ
During the day there are countless of decisions to be made. Like what to wear (๐Ÿ‘• or ๐Ÿ‘”), what to eat (๐Ÿ• or ๐Ÿ”), what to drink (โ˜•๏ธ or ๐Ÿต), what to buy (๐ŸŽฎ or ๐Ÿ“”), where to go (๐ŸŽฌ or ๐ŸŽช), or simply what to do (๐ŸŠ or ๐Ÿ€). Swell is a fun app that gives you 100s of opinions from friends and strangers within in a few seconds.
Peter Buchroithner
@__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. Itโ€™s 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!
Thomas Schranz โ›„๏ธ
Do you have some metrics that you can share with us?
Peter Buchroithner
@__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 ๐Ÿณ
Mike Heininger
Thanks @peterbuch for building Swell! Its amazing how quick you can get decision on basically everything! Love your colors and the friendly whale โ€ฆ this really stands out.
Peter Buchroithner
@mikeseeh thanks Mike, highly appreciate it. I'm happy to have such an amazing designer in my team @smalzner
Mike Heininger
Peter @peterbuch what are the most trending topics on Swell? Any experience with using it for brand decisions like logos, designs etc?
Peter Buchroithner
@mikeseeh currently it's Fashion, Food, Traveling and Fun. But we already see the first brands testing their styles (t-shirt designs) or logos
Nicolas Galera-Giron
What's the difference with Wishbone? Cool design btw.
Peter Buchroithner
@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 :)
Marcus Karoumi
I had this idea in May 2015. Well, ideas aren't worth a shit. Great executed! :)
Peter Buchroithner
@mkaroumi thanks Marcus!
You guys also made the cool dvel app. So what's the main difference of swell compared to dvel?
Peter Buchroithner
@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
@peterbuch @eholzbauer what exactly made the re-branding necessary?
Peter Buchroithner
@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 ๐Ÿณ
Stefan Malzner
@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.
Pedro Ruรญz
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?
Stefan Malzner
Feel free to ask @peterbuch, @fredstrasser, @phips28 or me anything about swell. If you happen to be at SXSW let's grab a โ˜•๏ธ
Val Scholz
@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?
Peter Buchroithner
@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
Ghost Kitty
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Artem Boiko
So fun! I like it)) design is awesome! Btw what is this counter on top of my avatar standing for? ๐Ÿ˜„ sorry)
Peter Buchroithner
@artboiko thanks so much Artem! The counter shows your points/score We don't want to tell what you earn those points for yet ;-)
Peter Buchroithner
@artboiko haha, exactly ;-) cheers
Artem Boiko
@peterbuch dammit ;( I'm in trouble. I accidentally logged out instead of tap on Clear cache ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ 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 ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ how I could fix it? Thanks in advance
Peter Buchroithner
@artboiko @phips28 can you help Artem please?
Philipp Holly
@artboiko just send me your email address to phil@letsdvel.com I will fix it for you! ;)
Andrew Ettinger
Often an issue with user driven apps, how do you seed Swell with people ready to provide their opinions?
Peter Buchroithner
@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?
Mr. Wilson
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!
Peter Buchroithner
@cmwilson15 thanks man :)
Alex Marshall
What made you choose .wtf as your domain extension? Seems like an unusual one to choose in this particular case. Love the idea though! ๐Ÿณ
Peter Buchroithner
@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