Happy Thursday everyone!

🚂<- this is the GPT-4 hype-train

🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏾💨 <- this is us running to put fuel into it!

Our fine-tuned GPT-4 model will generate your developer tickets for you directly based on customer feedback!

Isn't it time-consuming and tedious work to refine the idea backlog and turn unstructured feedback into structured developer tickets?  We agree! This is why we have fine-tuned an AI Model based on GPT-4 to generate developer tickets for us.  

Since you’ve been using AnnounceKit since last week to successfully gather feature requests from your customers, you know how long it takes to create the perfect ticket for your developers. Well, now with this new feature, you can generate tickets with the click of a button. That's right - no more manual ticket creation!

Sidenote: If you are not using Feature Requests yet - check out our previous announcement (here).

Our AI knows all the details about your product and user persona from your last updates & website so that it can create the best tickets for you. All you have to do is hit the Generate Ticket button, and the AI will do the rest. Test it! Even we were surprised by how smart it is.

This new feature gives you more time to focus on building great products and giving your customers the best experience. So what are you waiting for? Here is the How to use AI to Generate Developer Tickets and Product Details.

We're excited to announce an exciting new feature on our product, AnnounceKit. We've just added more options for filtering posts on our Posts page.

With these new filters, you'll be able to easily sort and manage your posts. You can now filter by post status, created by, and labels. This makes it easier for you to find the posts you're looking for and to manage them quickly and efficiently.

Also, We're adding two buttons to you will be able to quickly access your feed page and theme designer with this improvement.

We're always looking for ways to improve your experience with AnnounceKit, and we think this new feature will help make your workflow smoother. If you have any feedback or questions, please let us know. We'd love to hear from you.

Happy announcing!

Did you ever struggle with users not telling you what they need? Do you only collect feature requests internally or via user interviews? 

With this new feature, AnnounceKit users will be able to set up a page for their products and services where customers, users, and followers can directly suggest new features and improvements. The tool is designed to make it easy for users to submit feature requests, as well as for product managers and developers to manage and prioritize those requests.

If the feature request is unclear, you can leave clarifying comments and once the feature has sufficient votes you can simply add it to your roadmap.

Wondering how to get started?

The feature will be available for everyone in beta, but in the future availability might change depending on the plan

-> If you're interested in trying out the feature request, please comment "I’m in!" below and we'll share the beta access link with you

Check out our guide on "How to use the Feature Request Tool in AnnounceKit"

Pro Tips: 

1. You can also create a feature suggestion and see how users react to it & how many votes it receives from the audience. 
2. The more users you drive to your "feature request" page the more representative the votes will be & the more effective the suggestions. (We will make positioning easy in the future, but for now, we leave it up to you to tell your users where they can leave suggestions)
3. If you have wishes for the AnnounceKit Platform, you can find our Feature Requests here 😏

Another year has passed, and this time of the year is when we look at ourselves and realize how we made it. At AnnounceKit, we seek ways to “always do better,” so we want to reflect on how far we came for you to do better this year!

In this year-end roundup, we’ll take a look back at the significant updates and experiences that have shaped 2022– all created to better your customer engagements.

Taking a moment to reflect on the past year and share some exciting updates and experiences

It was a year full of significant improvements, fantastic growth, and much joy between you and us. No joy can come out of zero. To bring success and joy to you, we started the year with one– the goal of expanding the powers of our product. As a result, we gathered three infinity stones to complete a significant part of the customer feedback cycle.

1. Listening to customer feedback 👂
2. Outlining a public roadmap 🗺
3. Writing outstanding announcements 📣

Key Updates

Concentrating our main goal of expanding the powers of our product, our effort to improve your experience was our main motivation. With that in mind, our team has grown our feature set with several major updates. And our efforts and motivation finally resulted in a new product concept of creating a centralized place for the customer feedback loop.

1. Product Feedback and Idea Voting

To complete the first step of the customer feedback cycle, we introduced our product feedback and idea voting feature in beta this year. With this development, you can easily create a centralized place for customers to submit and vote on the feature requests they’re most interested in seeing.

And for you, this can help guide your product development and ensure you build the features that matter most to your audience 

2. Public and Internal Roadmap

Without completing each step successfully, we wouldn’t be able to reveal and expand the power of the customer feedback loop. The second stage is the second leverage— keeping your customers informed about what’s coming next for your product and building transparency with your audience.

This new addition to the product creates a better atmosphere for your audience where you keep them informed, engaged, and excited.

3. AI Writing Assistance

And finally, the last (but not least) step of the customer feedback loop— making announcements and product updates. Product updates are the phase where we are the strongest and the reason you are with us today. With that in mind, we sought ways to improve your experience with writing product updates. And our little friend is the result of this brainstorming! 

Hence, we were more proud than ever to introduce our AI assistant this year. He is not only a major improvement in shortening the time you spend writing product announcements, but he also is a milestone of what will happen in the future.

This is something we have been excited to launch for a while, and now, we're thrilled to share the roadmap feature is officially here 🤘

Some of you have been using the roadmap in beta, so we want to thank you for all your contributions to making the final touches 🤝

Now, with the roadmap, you can outline your upcoming announcements on your feed and widget and keep your audience updated on what's coming next!

You can check our Roadmap Guide to get started or ask questions by commenting here. We can't wait to see what you all create with it 👀

We're more than excited to announce that the roadmap feature in AnnounceKit is now in beta! 🎉

This feature allows you to keep a public roadmap of upcoming announcements and keep your audience updated on what's coming next.

If you're interested in trying out the roadmap feature, please comment "I’m in!" below and we'll share the beta access link with you 🐣

Announcing a new functionality that you've been asking for some time - post previews! Now you can preview your post on your feed, widgets, or boosters before you publish it to make sure it looks just the way you want it to  👀

Post preview functionality will help you to avoid any last-minute surprises. Create your post in the post editor, and hit the "Preview" button to see how it will look on your feed and widgets once it's published. Then you'll be ready to go live 🕺

We're excited to announce our new and improved post editor which has been completely redesigned and is now available in beta! 🥳

With some major improvements, we tidied the post editing section for it to be more eye-catching so as to make creating and editing your posts easier. 

We're still working on some final touches, but we wanted to give our users a sneak peek of what's to come! You can switch to the new version to start exploring and let us know what else you would like to see in the editor 🤘

Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that if you have an existing emailing list and would like to send out product updates and announcements to them via email, you are now able to import your user list to your AnnounceKit project 💌

To get started, simply head over to the People tab and select "Import". From there, you can upload your CSV file and select which columns correspond to user attributes.

For a successful user list importing experience, see the steps🚶and beware of the requirements❗️ given in our User List Import Guide.

Great news, fresh from the oven! 🧁 Your users are more likely to pay attention to the emails when they come from your email address. From now on, AnnounceKit will allow you to set up your company email to send product updates and announcements from your own domain address!

To start sending an email from your own domain, you can change your email provider to a custom provider like SMTP or Mailgun at Email Settings first and follow our instructions for setting up verification.