We are thrilled to unveil our latest feature, Pop-ups, designed to empower you with flexibility and control over your user notifications. With Pop-ups, you can effortlessly create and display banner and pop-up notifications directly on your users' screens, without publishing any posts on your feed or widget.

🔊 Here's a glimpse of what you can expect from the Pop-ups feature:

✅ Seamless Integration: Implementing Pop-ups is a breeze. If you haven't already, simply set up the widget, and you're ready to go. No complex configurations or additional integrations are required.

✅ Effortless Creation: With our user-friendly dashboard, creating eye-catching pop-ups cannot be easier. Customize the style, add engaging content, and preview the appearance in real-time. Enjoy full control over the publish date, expiration date, and redirection URLs when users interact with your Pop-ups.

✅ Versatile Use Cases: Announce updates, notify users about scheduled maintenance, redirect them to a specific URL, or promote your marketing campaign, the possibilities are endless. Use Pop-ups to captivate your audience and keep them informed.

✅ Customization at Your Fingertips: Tailor the look and feel of your Pop-ups to match your brand. Experiment with different styles, colors, and layouts to create a consistent and visually appealing experience for your users.

✅ Perfectly Aligned: Pop-ups seamlessly integrate within AnnounceKit, ensuring a cohesive experience for managing all your user notifications in one place. Stay organized with easy tracking using statuses such as expired, scheduled, live, paused, and draft.

❗Please note that the Pop-ups feature is currently available for our Scale plan customers. Upgrade your plan today to unlock the power of Pop-ups and take your user engagement to the next level!

📖 To help you get started with Pop-ups, we've prepared a comprehensive tutorial that walks you through the setup process and showcases the various customization options. Access the tutorial here.

Thank you for your continued support as we strive to enhance your AnnounceKit experience. We can't wait to see the creative and impactful ways you use Pop-ups to connect with your users. 🙏 🙏 

🔊🔊 Jira is joining our Integrations, making your backlog & feature request management process even easier and more streamlined. No more manual data entry – just seamless integration, right from the AnnounceKit platform. 🙌 

Here is how it works!

1. Go to "Settings", then "Integrations", and authenticate your Jira account.
2. Within "Settings", go to "Feature Requests", and set everything up according to your needs.
3. Generate a ticket. 
4. Lastly, go to the details page under "Feature Requests", and click the "Move to Jira" button. Voila! Your feature request is now in Jira.

If you need more details about this integration, Have a quick look at our article.

Not bad 👀  How can I get access? 

This powerful integration is available exclusively as part of our Scale plan.

If you are not on the scale plan - what are you waiting for? 😄 Not only will you get access to this new integration, but you will also unlock the most secure & effective distribution in the industry, including boosters, email digests, and custom branding. 

If you have feedback or suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team. We'd love to hear from you. 

No more reading lips & guesstimating importance! "Feature Requests" are now officially live for the Growth & Scale plans!

After beta testing, we are excited to release this feature to the public. Throughout the beta period, we improved the feature based on your feedback. We will enable you to gather & manage suggestions from your users even better, which will make sure that your users are engaged and that will be able to tell you what they want directly. We reduce the friction of user feedback and ranking, which makes it easy to always develop the most requested feature and to see what a user has voted for or liked in your backlog when discussing details with them.

What are they talking about⁉ -> Here’s what we offer!

With Feature Requests, AnnounceKit is with you at every stage of your product development cycle!

➡ You can collect requests from your users with the “Suggest feature” feature that can be added to your widgets and feed pages.

➡ You can enable your community to view, vote on, and comment on feature suggestions made by other users.

➡ You can make decisions about your new features with your community and keep them engaged!

➡ You can use the approval system to ensure that only the suggestions you want to appear on the page do so.

➡ You can add highly-voted features to your roadmap.

➡ You can use the “Generate Ticket” feature to have requests from your users analyzed by AI and obtain a meaningful developer ticket.

If you’re unsure how to get started, we’re including some of our articles below.

How to use the Feature Request tool in AnnounceKit?

Use AI to Generate Developer Tickets and Product Details

Don’t forget to announce this feature to your users for a great product experience! Contact us if you have any questions.

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!

We’re excited to announce a new feature for AnnounceKit - integration with Grammarly, the spelling and grammar-checking tool. Starting today, you can use Grammarly to check all of your AnnounceKit posts for typos and grammar mistakes, free of charge.

We know how important it is to have clear, accurate communication with your audience. That’s why we’re offering this integration to all of our plans. Whether you’re just getting started with AnnounceKit or you’re a longtime user, you can now make sure your posts are typo-free and look professional.

We’re always looking for ways to make AnnounceKit better for you, and we hope that this integration helps you create more engaging error-free posts.

Happy posting!

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 👀