Rach and Chris jump on the podcast to talk about the brand-new in-app notification system we built and shipped. We’re actively trying to balance a system that isn’t annoying, but allows us to show targetting information to targetted users when we think that’s valuable for both you and us. It started with “We launched 2.0!” and is useful for stuff like short downtime notifications, reminders about PRO features, and all sorts of other things.

The system is designed to be as flexible as it possibly can be, meaning no particular UI is enforced, and can be used on any page anywhere in the DOM, and can have any set of logic applied. The “system” part just comes in with the fact that we track when they are seen so we can not annoy you with too many.

Time Jumps

  • 00:00:53 Our history with in app notifications
  • 00:04:44 Trying to balance helping you without annoying you
  • 00:08:53 Using a checkout ID to help identify opportunities for notifications
  • 00:14:30 The benefits of having data internally
  • 00:17:24 How we built the notification system we use now
  • 00:30:37 Changelogs in our Discord – should they be notifications?

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