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Lou — Get instant user engagement with in-product announcements
Lou makes it easy to proactively engage and retain users with interactive product announcements that take just minutes to launch & look built in-house. You can create beautiful no-code tooltips and announcements with Lou.
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@abe_storey Absolutely! Our free tier lets you publish up to 3 announcements & 2 tours to as many users as you'd like for as long as you'd like. Sign up with our special ProductHunt promo code PRODUCT_HUNT_10 to unlock up to 10 free announcements!
LOU is a fast lightweight tool for building product announcements into your user's workflow. Easy to use and fast to get started.
Hey all,
Kyle, other co-founder of Lou here with a promo code 🔥
I'm excited to see the different types of announcements that you all create with Lou. We have 6 starter templates available to help inspire your creativity, but the customization options are endless. As a product hunt promo you can publish up to 10 announcements on your website for as many users as you'd like and as long as you'd like completely free! Just enter our promo code PRODUCT_HUNT_10 when signing up. Already signed up? Send us an email mentioning product hunt and we'll get your limit increased.
Thanks for the hunt Kevin!
Rachel here, the co-founder of Lou 👋
We're a team of tech startup enthusiasts who believe that the best way to engage and communicate with users is proactively and in-product.
New users and trials expect to see value immediately and Lou helps them reach the 'aha moment' faster by proactively nudging users in the right direction. (In a beautifully designed & helpful way)
Most startups are on weekly release cycles yet keeping users up to date typically requires coding announcement tooltips or modals that will be outdated in just a couple weeks. Other solutions require CSS selectors to be added and have a complicated build process that still takes away from precious dev time.
We created Lou so that product people everywhere can effortlessly engage and notify their users in-product at just the right moment. Lou announcements take just minutes to launch & include custom design options for a built in-house look.
Whether you have a side hustle or $100m in funding, Lou helps engage and retain users.
With Lou you can:
- Launch an announcement in minutes for $0
- Drive adoption of new features and keep users up to date
- Notify users about important updates like a trial ending & what version they're on
- Perfectly time an up-sell message when the user is most likely to convert
- Welcome users to your app, guide them towards activation points, and transform them into power users
- Analyze user behavior in the Lou Dashboard and through our dozens of analytics integrations
Create a free account & try it out!
We appreciate your support. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
Cheers, Rachel (CEO)
@luke_malloy Thanks Lucas! Absolutely, we offer 6 starter templates that have everything you need already set up to solve specific use cases. Some of these use cases include: announcing new features; spotlighting underused features; displaying reminder banners; providing personalized support; and more!
We've been using Lou for a couple of months now and have really liked it! If you're building a self-serve product, Lou is the best way to get your customers to that key magic moment.
Congrats on the launch! @rachel_pardue
Can you point me to A/B testing functionality if you have any?
@eugenehp Thanks! Great question - A/B testing is coming very soon. It's the next feature on our roadmap! Is there a specific insight you'd like to receive from an A/B test?
@rachel_pardue Sounds great. Just CTA performance and basic GA analytics. If you can have all the numbers in the same interface, it will enable the person taking care of engagement to make good decisions on the spot.
@eugenehp Thanks, that makes sense. Would you prefer to have those numbers accessible within the Lou Dashboard or pushed into your third party analytics tool like Google Analytics?
@rachel_pardue Data wise, gathering everything in GA would make more sense, it will end up being in our data lake. From the employee/user perspective some basic numbers one the engagement would help too, I can imaging something like stats for the campaign, etc.
@brian_fritton Thanks so much Brian! We put a lot of time into making it as simple and intuitive as possible. Glad you like it!
Pumped for this launch 🚀 We're thrilled to have signed on 50+ companies in the last week. Excited to see what you guys think 🤩
Looks amazing. We are looking to help our non-tech-savvy users engage better with our product. Is it possible to show different announcements depending on the user (i.e., new users vs. returning users)?
@guillegarciar Thanks Guillermo! To answer your question, yes you can target announcements to all different types of users with our segmentation feature! In fact, we offer pre-built "turnkey" segments for new users, returning users, and power users, that don't require any extra setup to get started with. If you need additional targeting capabilities, you can also define your own custom user segments like "admin users" or "members of Company A" for example.
@ty_filsinger We don't limit the number of team member seats on your account for any of our plans including our free tier. So, you can build alongside as many teammates as you'd like!
So exciting -- love this concept so much! Do you have plans to release for mobile as well?
@genevieve_ryan Thanks Genevieve! Website support for mobile devices is coming soon, stay tuned! Are you looking for mobile support on your website or for a native mobile app?
@conner_writt Thanks Conner! Unfortunately, we currently only support browser-based websites on screen sizes larger than 767px.
Wow, this looks amazing. I totally agree with the premise: in-app notifications and comms are way more engaging than an email shot. I always have a "wow" moment when there's good contextual content on an app I'm using. Kudos!! Going straight on the list of finds I share with our tech team!
@alessandro_valentini Thanks Alessandro, there's nothing like a perfectly timed in-app announcement! Glad you enjoy!
Hey @adityavsc - thank you! This launch includes a whole new feature set of Announcements. Along with those Announcements now comes full design customization, templates to choose from, out of the box user segmentation, and dozens of integrations! We're not quite calling it a 2.0 but our launch last year was for product tours. We shifted our approach towards favoring short-form 'announcements' because they take a fraction of the time to create, can be used more frequently and for a wider variety of use cases, and in many instances users find them more engaging than longer-form 'product tours'.
Lou is so easy to use. I built a new user on boarding flow in less than 30 minutes!
@laura_maiurano Awesome Laura. I'm pleased you're able to engage with the builder so effectively!
So proud of the new launch and everyone on the team to make this happen! Can't wait to see where it goes!
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