Backpage Stepping Off the Startup Treadmill Notifications can become overbearing especially for remote teams. Here's my experience learning to take a step back and focus my time more wisely.
Announcements March 2019 Product Updates It's been a big month for us at HelpDocs. We've started hiring again and already expanded the team (hey team! 👋). We've also shipped tons, as usual. And I hope you love it all as much as I do 🦄✨
Announcements February 2019 Product Updates We're two months into the year already, and we're kicking off in style with some fantastic new updates to your HelpDocs knowledge base. Markdown Blocks We've been asked about writing Markdown in HelpDocs since the very beginning. But we've always been hesitant
Announcements Late 2018 Product Updates Between gigantic moderate portions of turkey, pints small glasses of bourbon, and sleeping until noon other festive frivolities, we've been working occasionally tirelessly over the winter break to bring you some much-updated updates to the platform. TL;DR we added a bunch to the text editor, made multilingual
Backpage Don't Preach to Teach If You Intend to Sell I was reading a blog post earlier from a moderately well known social media company. The post, whilst framed as educational, was almost entirely dedicated to pedaling their wares and establishing the founder as a thought leader. Editor’s note: this post is a bit ranty, and a departure from
Announcements A Powerful New Text Editor and Dashboard for Everyone If you’re anything like us you spend a lot of time in text editors. Email, live chat, writing documentation, sending birthday messages to your Gran on Facebook, and writing letters of complaint appreciation to the tax man. You can’t escape them. And if you’re a HelpDocs user
Announcements Say Hello to HelpDocs Articles Inside the Intercom Messenger Setting up a knowledge base and keeping it updated is only useful if your customers find and read your docs. One way to make that happen is to place them in front of the customer in handy places. That's why I'm happy to introduce our latest
Announcements Our New & Improved Slack Integration: Make Your Knowledge Base a Team Sport Let’s face it, being in charge of your company’s knowledge base can often feel like a lonely job. While getting help documentation up to scratch is essential, it’s not always given much thought despite it being the first line of help for confused customers or lurking leads.
Backpage Why We're Forcing Ourselves to Stop Rebuilding Our Product As a technical founder it's my job to prioritize what to build, what to improve, and what to chuck away. A.k.a managing "the roadmap". When you're working inside the product day-to-day, just how do you decide what needs the most attention? We&
Infinite, Instant & Brand New: October Product Updates This past few months we've been working on some super exciting new HelpDocs features. We're keeping some of them under wraps for now, but I have a few awesome developments to share with you today. 🎉 Subcategory support Yep, we've added support for categories inside
Backpage Why We’re Rejecting Freemium and Building a Sustainable Business Instead Startup pricing’s a touchy subject. Nobody’s quite sure how to do it best [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840282]. And at the end of the day it’s very dependent on your exact situation. But the general consensus is to just double your prices. > Marc Andreessen
Announcements New Features for July 🐣 So, you might remember we recently switched to seasonal product updates (check out our Spring update [https://blog.helpdocs.io/spring-product-update-17]). We made a big deal about not doing monthly updates, yada yada yada. Well, now we're back to monthly product update posts. Or rather irregular posts, anyway.
Announcements HelpDocs Has Acquired Helpman 🎉 I have some exciting news to share with you today. We've made our first acquisition: Helpman [https://gethelpman.io]! The story so far Helpman was a direct competitor to HelpDocs—another hosted knowledge base platform. We've been competing for just over a year now, but after
Support Smarter How Surprisingly Good Support Wins Us Customers At HelpDocs we’re kinda great at customer support. If you’ve ever sent us a support request (or just a hello) you’ll have seen this yourself. Almost all our chats are replied to within 30 waking minutes. Usually way quicker. It’s safe to say our customers love
Announcements Introducing Multilingual Translation I'm thrilled to announce that HelpDocs now has full support for multiple languages. 🎉 Now you can write your docs in as many languages as you can think of, and your visitors can choose the version they want. Until now, making a multilingual knowledge base has been painful at
Announcements HelpDocs Now Supports Internal Docs We've been building HelpDocs for just over 6 months now. We get dozens of feature requests each day, and one of the most common by far is internal docs. In fact, some of our users have been using HelpDocs internally since the start. They've hacked it
Announcements We Added 23 Features in 6 Weeks Wow, it’s been a busy few weeks. Our teeny little team’s been beavering away to make the product better than ever, and I’ve got a lot to share with you today. We’re on a quest to make the best hosted knowledge base product. From integrations to
Backpage How We Took Our Startup from Idea to Paying Customers in 4 Weeks Since we launched HelpDocs 5 months ago I can safely say I’ve learned more than ever before. We’ve taken our fledgling idea from nothing to profitable with over 100 users on paying teams. Getting to this stage, though, has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever
Support Smarter Why Technical Founders Need to Conquer Customer Support When we launched HelpDocs earlier this year there were just the two of us. We ran everything. Product, sales, marketing, support, legal. You name it, we ran it. That’s pretty much the norm for self-funded startups like ours. If you’ve run one, you’ll know exactly how it
Announcements A Brand New Look—What We Shipped in September We launched HelpDocs back in April to help make better knowledge and support docs. Since then we've been spending most of our time making the backend services more reliable, faster, and generally better. That means usually our product updates are pretty darn mundane. Bug fixes. Performance improvements. Nobody
Support Smarter Why Obsession is Essential for Startup Founders I’ve met a ton of startup founders this year, and I’ve learned a few things about how they tick. One interesting trait that they’ve all had in common is obsession. All founders are obsessed with something. The worst are obsessed with material things. Money. Fame. Stuff. To
Backpage Why Sharing Your Startup Ideas Online is Usually a Good Thing Back when I was working on my very first startup, I was terrified about sharing my ideas online. We did the whole stealth mode thing. We tried to shroud our idea in secrecy. > In business, stealth mode is a company's temporary state of secretiveness, usually undertaken to
Backpage Don’t Be Afraid to Make a Good Product With literally hundreds of new ventures being born each day, it’s easy to think that building a startup’s just about slinging together some code and hoping. Throw enough ideas at the wall, and some of them’ll stick. > If you are not embarrassed by the first version
Support Smarter Why Your Startup Needs an Awesome Knowledge Base If you run a startup, I’m guessing you have a public knowledge base. Maybe you call it a support site, or self-service helpdesk, but some way of letting your customers help themselves. But do you remember why you have it? And do you care? If you don’t, you’