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Growth · January 29, 2013

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My first weekend project-ThreeBar, a welcome bar for content promotion

I've done a lot of standalone apps, but ThreeBar is my first service and "weekend project." I built it to take on a new type of project, but I've actually been using the service myself for a couple of months now on my own websites. ThreeBar is a "welcome bar" service. Essentially, you can customize a small bar with your own message, button, colors, and action to prompt your website's visitors to do "something." The bar will slide down from the top of the page, and your visitor can either click the button to go to a URL or dismiss the bar, in which case it won't be shown to them again. One…

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In the maker’s words, at launch

I've done a lot of standalone apps, but ThreeBar is my first service and "weekend project." I built it to take on a new type of project, but I've actually been using the service myself for a couple of months now on my own websites. ThreeBar is a "welcome bar" service. Essentially, you can customize a small bar with your own message, button, colors, and action to prompt your website's visitors to do "something." The bar will slide down from the top of the page, and your visitor can either click the button to go to a URL or dismiss the bar, in which case it won't be shown to them again. One use case would be an author that wants to promote his or her new book-- you could put a discount code in the ThreeBar for your website's visitors. Or, if you would like to have more Twitter followers, you could promote your Twitter account by asking your visitors to follow you. All of this is hosted, so you just drop a script tag into your website's source code (think Google Analytics) and it just works. You can then update, add, or remove different messages from the ThreeBar dashboard without having to update the embed code. ThreeBar also tracks a bunch of analytics, including the number of times a bar is viewed, closed, or clicked. All of these analytics combined with the ability to rotate different messages or colors schemes could be used for A/B testing. If a bright red bar is being closed at a much higher rate than one that is black, you may want to consider toning the color down, for example. I'm curious to hear your feedback on the site and service. Please let me know if there's something that stands out, something that would make the service more valuable to a user, any feedback on pricing, or if you have any questions! You can see a demo of the bar itself on the ThreeBar website (https://threebar.net) or my own website (http://andrewmunsell.com). Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any comments or questions. https://threebar.net/

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