Tech Platform
- Ecommerce web app platform: Shopify
Useful components
- Elfsight.com - Cool widgets, can test them out for freee
- Eg Vimeo Gallery embed
- Job Board, stylable, mobile friendly
- REview
- File Embed
- Audio player
- Podcast player
- Wish they had:
- Wishlist; can’t add an idea outside these topics
Site Sections
Calendar
- Loxi.io - calendar embed
- Status: Used in production, good
Job board
- Elfsight.com
Video Gallery
- Elfsight.com
- Vimeo gallery embed
Reviews
- Elfsight.com
File Embeds
- Elfsight.com
Map
- MapBox?
- Need to evaluate
- ThemeForest –> Map Directory
- Need to evaluate
Chat
- Tawk.to -
- Based out of Australia
- Chat widget: Sends chat to a person
- Complicated UI
- Status: Used Website chat in production, good Knowlegde base
Forum
Discourse. Mechanically fantastic, bad UI for non-techy people
Job post to pre-seed with passionate experts, have them ask & answer questions in the form;
- “Find something you disagree with and make a tactfully make a point or give advice”
- Hire several people to stay engaged
- Job posts in different cities
While job post is running, Run Facebook Ads “This is X, Go to it”;
- Incentivize people to engage.
- “Everyone who asks a good question, answers a question, & gets the most likes, gets free pair of shoes.
- Incentivize people to engage.
Now: Forum Knowledge base & forum is built
Social media
- Buddy Boss: “Facebook in a box”
- Example: “[Location]’s online community for [Topic]”
- Status: To Evaluate; Just used in Sandbox
Knowledge base
- Tawk.to
- Free Knowledge base that you can white-label, custom domain
Podcast Player
- Elfsight.com
Content flow
(Chat –> Forum –> Knowledge Base –> Expert Opinion? AMA, etc)