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Life & fun · August 16, 2018

User Onboarding Checklists by Appcues

Scientifically proven to boost activation and retention.

User Onboarding Checklists by Appcues launched on August 16, 2018 with 359 votes, #31 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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In plain words

User Onboarding Checklists by Appcues is a tool for building and deploying guided checklists within software products to guide new users through key features. It allows teams to create, design, and target checklists quickly without coding. The product works by leveraging three cognitive principles: completion bias, reward bias, and consistency bias. It's designed for product managers and teams seeking to improve user activation and retention during the onboarding process.

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From the sources

Push users deep into your product with User Onboarding Checklists. Build, design, and target Checklists in minutes, and start increasing user engagement today. Checklists are effective because they leverage 3 well-researched cognitive biases: bias towards completion, bias towards reward, and bias towards consistency.

Turn first-time users into power users. Appcues guides customers to value with onboarding checklists, product tours, and behavior-based messaging.

Adoption is where attention becomes habit. Appcues helps customers find their footing, hit their first wins, and keep coming back. Building an experience is only the first step. Once it's live, the system pays attention to how people respond, figures out what's working, and puts that to use on whatever comes next. You can dive into analytics, get recommendations, optimize campaigns, or just sit back and relax. With Appcues there's less guessing, less busywork, and better campaigns every time. "We wanted to provide a more tailored approach to onboarding, so we jumped into Appcues because it was a very quick, no-build, easy way to optimizefrom appcues.com

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