TGF - Shots of Things that Work

Your daily shot of clever things no one can refuse.

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Barcodes: these download buttons give users quick access to barcodes to download directly from a mobile phone (Source Binance USA).

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Covid-19 support: Ahrefs makes it easy and unbureaucratic to claim a disaster relief 15 days off, if you need it.

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Amazon email template: what a wonderful template “leaked” by accident and discovered via Twitter.

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DMG made useful: Firetask comes with a “cheat sheet” in order to make your life easier before you’ve even installed the application.

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Contact us: copy to clipboard instead of opening the wrong email client (mailto: link).

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Replaced, removed, unsubbed, deleted, removed, gone, not needed: that’s also a way to visualize how your product replaces X others...

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Dynamic share images: a thorough explanation by the maker of Indiehackers how the dynamic share images work. 

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Need more time? Into the way that Ghost elicits feedback or offers to help get users to use the product after the trial ends.

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Ingenuity/domain hacks: one just has to admire Stripe’s love for detail and making people’s lives simpler. Source. Try invoice.new or subscription.new.

Edit: typing “sheets.new” into a browser creates a new google spreadsheet document.“Docs.new” does the same thing for Google Docs. Source.

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Animation/illustration: this animation in connection with the tagline brings the point home. You’ll immediately grasp what Lazy is about.

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Personal onboarding: Basecamp is as relatable as on day 1. Jason Fried, the CEO, welcomes you, explains the very basics of the business model and offers to reach out to him on Twitter or his personal email, whenever you need help.

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Credit system: Notion allows you to collect credits when finishing certain steps that bring you closer to using it the way it’s supposed to.

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A penny saved is a penny earned: nice play on words in the pricing part of Sendy’s landing page.

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Newsletter onboarding: Nice onboarding email for the Makerpad newsletter. The relevant elements:

1. Setting expectations

2. Invitation to reach out to Ben (the founder) personally, and share ideas for him to work on

3. At the end, he’s trying to learn more about you and what led you to the newsletter in the first place. This way he can learn what is working and attach some actions to that learning.

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Call to actions: Strapi makes it easy to take the right steps after having watched the demo video: 1. Try it! 2. Need more info? 3. Need another feature?

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Shareable badges: Product Hunt makes it as easy as possible to share your successes with the world. Both showing off your own success and then as a consequence extending the reach of Product Hunt itself.

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Exit popup: here’s a nice implementation of the “exit intent popup technique” which offers you 10% off for getting on the mailing list.