David Zeng

Beacons AI 2.0 - Beyond link in bio: full stack platform for content creators

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In 2020, we launched Beacons Link-in-Bio. Today, we're launching Beacons 2.0: the evolution of our Link-in-Bio product into an AI-powered, all-in-one platform with integrated Store, Email Marketing, and Media Kits - all built for content creators.

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David Zeng
Hey everyone—David here, Co-Founder of Beacons.ai. We first launched Beacons Link in Bio on Product Hunt in December of 2020. A lot has changed since then, both at Beacons and in the creator industry. Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of Beacons 2.0, an AI-powered platform that not only gives creators the tools they need to run their business, but uses AI to do work for them. 🚀 ➡️  From 1.0 to 2.0 While building our Link in Bio for over 3 million creators, we realized a common theme: it’s a lot of work to build a creator business, and a lot of it has nothing to do with making content. That’s why we’re going beyond Link in Bio. Today on Beacons, creators can find everything they need to build a business starting right now, with AI-powered tools that scale with them into the future. The new all-in-one platform that we call “Beacons 2.0” consists of our reimagined Link-in-Bio, integrated with native Store, Email Marketing, and Media Kit tools for creators to market themselves and make money. All in one place—with AI features integrated throughout. 🔮 2.0 and beyond: AI for creators Our co-founders met as PhD students at Stanford in AI and machine learning, and we’ve always believed that there would be more opportunities to use AI to help creators. With Beacons 2.0, we’re weaving AI into the platform to help creators at every turn: emails and product descriptions are written in the creator’s tone of voice, image generation is at your fingertips wherever and whenever content is needed, and key information is automatically surfaced. 🤝 Creators and their managers AI is one way for creators to scale themselves, but there are some things that only a human can do. When a creator wants to expand their team, their first teammate is often a manager. And we want to help managers scale and succeed, too. So we launched [Beacons for Managers](https://beacons.ai/i/for-managers): a set of tools specifically to help managers pitch, report, and organize creator data. Beacons for Managers is built on the same data layer as all of the Beacons creator tools, so creators and their managers can work together seamlessly. 🚀 **Creators are the business of the future** We’re already seeing creators and managers succeeding with these new AI-powered tools—we’ve added some of our favorite examples to our new home page, which showcases the entire Beacons 2.0 platform. We believe creators are the businesses of the future, and with Beacons 2.0, we’re building the next-generation platform that this new class of entrepreneur deserves. As a Beacons creator, you can use all the tools for free or upgrade to Pro plans (https://beacons.ai/i/pricing) for advanced features. Get started at http://beacons.ai and let us know what you think. We can’t wait to see what you build! -David
Coco Mao
Super pumped about Beacons 2.0. I found the AI onboarding experience pretty magical: by adding my social media links, it automatically crawled my past content to find other related links (like my Amazon shop) and most viral video to showcase on my Beacons page. But what I'm REALLY excited about is its email marketing service. $20 for unlimited email?! That's INSANE. I've never seen a cheaper email marketing service... and it works pretty well too. Not sure if they're going to keep offering this jaw-dropping price, but so far it's definitely a steal :) Keep up the great work!
David Zeng
@coco_mao2 I'm glad you enjoyed the onboarding! The market has shifted to unlimited email, and we're trying to make this important channel more accessible for creators by doing our best to remove cost as a barrier for their success.
Ben Woytowich 🚀🌳
As a long time user of Beacons (since 2021), Im excited to see all of the new changes and improvements that the Beacons team has put together. The Store is now the cheapest and easiest place to sell digital products online while the Email marketing tool helps creators own their audience which is even more critical in 2023 with platform uncertainty. The future of Beacons is bright for all creators on Beacons! If you aren't using Beacons today, why not?
Lancy Zhang
Much, much needed consolidation for creator tools 👏, it’s such a headache managing all the random software subscriptions and remembering why they were useful 😂 excited about all the new development, what’s the next frontier that the beacons team will tackle?
Vu Nguyen
I'm a user of the original BeaconsAI myself, definitely love it. Congrats on the launch and can't wait to experiment with new stuff!
Shane Yan
I really love this product, it's not only appealing to the eye but also very practical! I'm intrigued about how the AI mimics a creator's tone of voice for email and product descriptions - how does it learn and adapt to this?
David Zeng
@dino123 We connect with the creator's social media data sources to build a corpus to try and finetune the tone, but consistent tone alignment for LLMs still has a lot of room for improvement.
Bryan Kim
@dino123 @davidyzeng Dino, this exact idea is a pet project of mine here at Beacons. Sounds like you might have thoughts on how to do this? Would love your thoughts!
Mulligan the Maltese
SO exciting! LOVE Beacons so much!!! So many amazing tools that have been instrumental in my growth and success as a creator!
Ben Woytowich 🚀🌳
@mulliganthemaltese We love you! Thank you for being an incredible supporter of everything we do, we couldn't do Beacons without you!
James Hicks
Beacons is the truth - I've been using the platform for a while now and these updates are truly creator focused - keep innovating team!!
Genki Daido
Good product.
Congratulations to Team Beacons AI 2.0 on your Producthunt launch! The evolution of link-in-bio into an AI-driven platform is a leap forward. As a suggestion, it would be great to see an AI powered analytics tool integrated for content creators to better understand their audience behavior. Keep up the great work!
David Zeng
@manmohit We're working on adding AI analytics right now! Our first stab at it is in our email product, which tries to realtime evaluate the relative quality of members of your audience so that you can find your superfans!
Kaitlin Macholz
Super exciting- I’ve been using Beacons for over a year and it’s pretty crazy to see what’s been added in that time to the original link in bio (they announce new features every week). My favorite part right now is being able to digital products from other creators within the Store. It’s really cool to have that inspo when I’m creating my own products to sell!! Definitely the best place for creators to sell to make extra income imo and I’ve started to tell my friends about it too ☺️
Jacob Choi
Join the millions of artists, creators, and makers on Beacons! We've loved working with big celebrities like Sia, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer and the newest creators from Day 0 get started. We're supercharging our product with meaningful, time-saving AI to help creatives focus on what they love most, creating content!
Isabel Sachs
Such an exciting day for us & for creators - if you landed here to support us from the Beacons Community, HUGE THANK YOU for being an integral part of this success!
Rami
Can I link to my only fans in it?
David Zeng
@kingromstar Yes! Lots of creators link to onlyfans and fansly!
Lindsay Lauder
Super exciting! Been a Beacons user for a while now and never cease to be amazed at how fast the team pumps out new features 🤯 This launch is truly a game changer for creators - instead of having to manage and keep track of a bunch of different software subscriptions + tools with Beacons 2.0 everything can happen within a single tab! And the new AI features are a huge time saver. Can't wait to see what the team launches next!
alan dweck
I’m flipping through old Loom videos, and it’s incredible to see how far we’ve come over the years I’ve been at @beaconsai ! When I look at what we’re launching today and the team we have – it’s clear we’re the best we’ve ever been. Amazing work, all ❤️. While just a stepping stone 😉, but it’s a big one - let’s gooooo!
Ethan Xu
Stellar work on Beacons AI 2.0, team! The evolution into a full-stack platform is a big leap for content creators. As I gear up for my own product launch next Tuesday, your success is truly inspiring. Hoping to achieve similar milestones. Any launch tips or insights you'd be willing to share?
Leon Ostrež
Very nice, congratulations on the launch!
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Jessica Li
This is so cool! Having all the tools in one place solves so many problems for creators - you don't need to pay for, learn, onboard, update, sync so many different things and you can more effectively own your entire audience from one place.