Today, we are super excited to give you access to a new version of AnnounceKit - more powerful, more intuitive, and even easier to navigate than before. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - that was our goal when we designed and built our new UI. And we hope you will notice that the next time you log in to your account ☺ 

🔎  What has changed? 

1. Slick New UI: It's not just a facelift; it's a whole new level of simplicity. 
2. Say Hi to the Left Sidebar Menu: You asked, we listened. Meet our new left sidebar menu that makes navigating very simple & quick. 
3. Smooth Sailing Ahead: Though some of the changes might be subtle, we've worked hard behind the scenes to ensure your experience continues to be smooth. 

😇 No Worries

We get it – change can sometimes seem daunting at first. If we compare AnnounceKit to a sportscar, then the exterior has changed, but the engine remains unchanged. The same powerful features you love, now wrapped up in a simple, intuitive UI.

🚀 Getting Started 

Upgrading to the new AnnounceKit experience is simple. Log in to your account, and poof 🪄 – the new UI will greet you with open arms. 

👂 We Want to Hear From You

We care about you and your experience with AnnounceKit. If you have feedback, ideas, or suggestions, then leave a comment under this post, reach out to our support team at support@announcekit.com, or use the Feature Requests function. 

🙌 Thank You

A massive shout-out to our AnnounceKit community. Your feedback & support makes this whole journey a lot of fun 💙 

So, sit back, relax, log in, and experience the new version of AnnounceKit 😎 

🔊 You asked, we listened. Today, we are excited to announce a new feature for AnnounceKit – the ability to immediately display your feature request form when someone opens your widget! 

➿ With this new improvement, you can easily highlight that you are collecting feature requests. We hope that this will boost the amount of feedback you receive, increase user engagement, and strengthen your community. 

We’re adding two options to the widget configuration settings to make Feature Requests even better. Now, you can create separate widgets and use one of them to collect feature requests! 

➡ Public Feature Request: The widget will display the Feature Request List when your users click on it. They will be able to see the other requests and upvote & comment on them.

➡ Suggest Feature Form: The widget will open with the "Suggest a Feature Request Form" so that you can encourage them to share some feedback with you. 

We hope you’re as excited as we are about this new improvement and we hope it takes your user- & community-driven product development to new heights. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We're always happy to hear from you. 

*Feedback from our community*	*Engineers at AnnounceKit HQ*

A week ago, we released Pop-ups. Today we are excited to announce the release of a powerful enhancement to our Pop-ups feature: Segmentation! With this addition, you can send your Pop-up notifications to specific users based on their attributes, as well as choose where your Pop-ups appear on your website or specific widgets.

Key Features and Benefits:

📍Advanced User Targeting: With the Segmentation feature, you can leverage a wide range of user attributes to create highly targeted segments. This includes default attributes such as User ID, User Name, User Email, Widget, Country, and URL. Additionally, if you have user tracking enabled, you can utilize custom attributes to further refine your segments.

✈ Tailored Messaging and Offers: Segmenting your Pop-up notifications allows you to deliver relevant and personalized messages to different user groups. Customize the content, call-to-action, and offers based on the specific attributes of each segment, maximizing the impact of your notifications.

🎯 Targeted Display Options: Choose where your Pop-ups appear on your website or specific widgets. Specify URLs or widgets where you want your Pop-ups to be displayed, ensuring that they are visible in the right context, for the right audience.

📈 Improved User Engagement: By sending targeted notifications to specific user segments and displaying them in the right locations, you can enhance user engagement and increase click-through rates. Users are more likely to interact with notifications that are personalized, relevant, and displayed in the appropriate context.

Getting Started

If you are not familiar with our segmentation feature and are going to use it for the first time, the following article may be very useful for you. Do not hesitate to ask us any questions you may have!

User Tracking&Segmentation

This improvement is based on feedback we received from our community. We encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts, ideas, and success stories with us. Together, we can shape the development of our product so that you have everything you need to deliver exceptional user experiences.

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!

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 😏