Hey PH fam 👋 Today, I'm super excited to bring Turf to the wider tech & startup community around the world! 🌎 Let's zoom out for a bit. Don't you agree that we're living in the golden age of SaaS, with new products popping up daily? And when throw AI into the mix, the sheer number of software products being created around the world is off the charts. But here's the million-dollar question: when building a product gets this easy, how do you keep your users retained/engaged and coming back for more? Enter Turf: the in-app community platform built specifically for SaaS companies. 🚀 Why am I so hyped about Turf? Because I don't think I've seen a community product with THIS MUCH FIREPOWER in recent years. The feature set included is just impressive. You'll have to see for yourself. The best way I can describe it is: Imagine having a Swiss Army knife for user engagement. From forums to feedback boards, knowledge bases, roadmaps, change logs, academies - Turf's got it all. And the fun part? It's all wrapped up in a super simple embeddable widget that lives right inside your SaaS app. This was a very novel execution to me when I first saw it. And there's one additional power feature that stuck with me. Turf isn't just about building communities - it's about measuring their impact. 📊 Turf gives you the analytics to tie community engagement directly to your bottom line. Churn reduction? User activation? Revenue growth? Turf's got you covered. I recently got a sneak peek of Turf's demo from the founders and it was incredible. The team behind it really gets the unique challenges SaaS companies face. They've been there, done that, and now they're solving a problem we've all been grappling with. Big shoutout to the Turf team (Olivier & Tim) who are here today 😀 Check out the tool and feel free to drop any comments, questions or suggestions below ⤵️

Been looking at Turf and it's purely designed for SaaS companies. Fb groups are dead, I tried discord and grew to 15K but 0 analytics. It's just people with funky gaming names. - My CEO asked. I couldn't do anything and I wish I found Turf back then. Good job Turf team and yes, community is the future!

I'm impressed by the private channels feature. It's perfect for creating exclusive spaces for different user groups on internal teams.

Hey everyone!! 👋 It has been a long time in the making but I am super excited to finally share Turf with all of you on Product Hunt. Turf is a community platform for SaaS companies, that allows you to create: 🌸 Community forums 🌸 Customer feedback boards 🌸 Knowledge bases 🌸 Roadmaps 🌸 Change logs 🌸 Feature request boards 🌸 Bug reporting forms 🌸 Academies 🌸 Technical documentation hubs 🌸 Live chat help desks 🌸 Online events All in one centralised hub that is completely embeddable inside you SaaS application or website with our in-app widget. SaaS companies build communities to either increase customer engagement & lower customer churn, reduce support costs, or increase user acquisition. To experience those benefits you need to be able to get your users to participate and consistently be active in your community environment. When we started out 2 years ago we noticed SaaS companies were having trouble getting their users to participate in their community environment and to measure the ROI and business impact of the community once their users were actively participating. We set out to solve this. While solving this, Turf turned out to also be a great way for smaller SaaS companies to cheaply and easily launch all their must have customer facing modules. Whether you are looking to launch a community or just want to easily build for example a knowledge base or customer feedback board, we would love to get your feedback so make sure you give it a try! 🤙🤙 I am incredibly proud of what the team and I have been building and am excited to finally share it with all of you! We will be available to reply to all your questions and messages, so make sure you post them 😁

It was quite a journey, to say the least…😁😅 Starting this together with my amazing and talented co-founder Olivier 2 years ago. We were discussing some community building initiatives with other SaaS, while working at our agency, and saw an opportunity to service this market on a bigger scale. In the beginning, we were dealing with a crazy fast-moving economy, then some macroeconomic changes, Covid came in and, in the meantime, community building keeps evolving. Nowadays, we are riding the AI wave and this will inevitably change the community part, but the question “how” and “why” is something we discuss weekly with a variety of relevant professionals. The beautiful thing about all this: our goal remains the same: helping SaaS companies reap the benefits of community building. That's why I'm very excited about the launch on Product Hunt. Every feedback or request to connect further in more detail is super super valuable!! Would love to hear from you!! Tim

Congrats on the launch! How does Turf handle user data privacy within the community platform?

All signed-up using your gift code — thanks! The product looks very clean and beautiful so good job there. I would like to see API access on all paid plans (it's a deal breaker for me and probably others in the NoCode / LowCode community if experience is anything to go by). I'd also like to suggest adding Webhooks alongside the API please 🙏 I'm impressed that you have allowed for unlimited members on all paid plans so thanks for that too. Other platforms use member numbers to drive people to the next paid plan which never made sense to me 🤷‍♂️ We run digital courses as part of our business and so I'm keen to see how well Turf will support these sorts of features in the future: multiple courses, cross-sells, user permissions, course payments etc. It looks as though the Academy is the start of this side of your platform perhaps?

This product is absolutely valuable for SaaS companies looking to boost user engagement and retention. With a comprehensive suite of community-building features and powerful analytics, it's a must-have tool for any serious SaaS business. I will definitely try it.

Congrats on your PH launch @tim__pouw @oliviervandenhoogen. I have already had the pleasure of working with the product and the team behind it and Turf is a very serious competitor in the space for startups creating communities. I wish you all the best with your launch and as ever you have my full support should you need it

This looks really cool, I use canny.io for customer feedback and roadmaps but this looks like it has so much more.

Congrats on the release! Love the all in one aspect of it and finally a community that's purpose-built for SaaS. Might give that a shot when we're closer to launch 😄

Looks clean and fresh, like it!

Gratz on the launch, great product, tons of features, good job by you and the team. Just out of curiosity, why u chose Turf for as your name?

Congrats on the launch, Olivier and Tim! Turf seems like a comprehensive solution for SaaS companies looking to build strong communities. I love the range of features you offer. Questions: - How customizable is the in-app widget for different branding needs? - Do you have any plans to integrate with popular CRM tools? Excited to see how Turf evolves!

Very comprehensive! Feedback, help center and much more all I want are available. Currently, I'm using Feature to manage the feedback and roadmap of my product. I'll try iTurf to see if it can replace Feature. Regarding the community function, I'm worried that users won't actively open my community. It might be that discussions in the IM tools that users usually use would have a higher frequency.

This looks pretty cool. It's super helpful to have all our customer stuff in one place. Can it link up with knowledge bases like Intercom?

Well done Olivier and Turf team 🙂 Congrats on your launch! What a momentous day ✨

TURF is an awesome and much needed product. Can’t wait to implement

Hi everyone! 🌟 I'm really proud of the platform we've put together. This journey has been incredible, and after countless sleepless nights, it means so much to hear that people not only appreciate the UI but also the core features we've shipped. 🙌 We're constantly releasing new features, so if you're missing something, please let me know what you'd like to see next. 🚀✨

Love the unlimited seats approach, sounds promising 🚀