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Dev tools · October 10, 2023

Frigade

Hey HN! Christian here, cofounder and CTO of Frigade (https://www.frigade.com). Our tool helps product and engineering teams quickly build in-app experiences like getting started checklists, product tours, account upsells, and nps surveys. Basically all the little things that can help boost your product's activation and retention rates, but that you don't really want to spend the time building from scratch. We built React UI components such as , , and and combined them with a web app that you can use to control user targeting, content management, sequencing, and more. These…

Frigade launched on October 10, 2023 with 388 votes, #72 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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In plain words

Frigade is a product onboarding platform designed for React and Next.js applications. It provides pre-built components and an API that developers can integrate into their apps, along with an admin dashboard for managing and measuring onboarding flows. The tool is intended for teams looking to create and optimize user onboarding experiences without building these features from scratch.

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From the sources

Frigade helps you build best-in-class product onboarding for React apps with beautiful drop-in components and an API. It's combined with a powerful admin dashboard to manage, measure, and iterate on your onboarding with ease.

Frigade Assistant is the AI digital adoption platform for in-app user onboarding, product adoption, and feature adoption. It learns your product by using it, then guides users through real workflows in real time. No flow design, no prompt tuning, no docs to maintain.

Other tools read your help docs. Frigade learns your product by using it, so it can answer, walk the workflow live, or just do it. The ticket never happens. Frigade reads the same product the user is looking at, and handles the request from there. Most bots stop at explaining. Frigade picks the right response for the moment: answer it, walk it on the live screen, or do it for the user. Answers come from how your product works today, not from a help doc written two releases ago. When telling isn't enough, Frigade highlights the next click and walks the workflow, across pages and modals. Skills let the assistant run the action itself, inside what the user can already see and do. Send us a URL…from frigade.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN! Christian here, cofounder and CTO of Frigade (https://www.frigade.com). Our tool helps product and engineering teams quickly build in-app experiences like getting started checklists, product tours, account upsells, and nps surveys. Basically all the little things that can help boost your product's…

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