🚀 Beta Launch Communication Progress

[SantosGuillamot]

We are planning a launch strategy to reach as many people as possible when Frontity beta is released. If you have any feedback or other ideas, feel free to share them!

Roadmap

• Old plugin

  • - Remove links to old website in dashboard and readme
  • - Add a warning at the top that the plugin is no longer mantained in dashboard and readme.
  • - Add UTM campaigns to all links pointin to new web
  • - Change copy of old readme.txt on Github
  • - Remove brand assets from old plugin
  • - Upload new version

• Old docs

  • - Change domain to WP-PWA
  • - Redirect URLs
  • - Change assets
  • - Remove business model page

• Prepare website

  • - Redefine Homepage
  • - Change newsletter section
  • - Prepare new landings
    • - Battle-Tested
    • - About us

• Prepare docs

  • - How is Frontity organized?
  • - Contributing section
  • - Features
  • - F.A.Q

• Prepare community

  • - Change menu
  • - Change welcome message
  • - Change greetings message
  • - Define a place to get feedback from users
  • - Define a place to let users share how they are going to use Frontity
  • - Display the current objectives of each category

• Change Github readme

  • - Update dates
  • - Notify that beta is launched
  • - Adapt copy

• Design user onboarding

  • - Define all user journeys
  • - Change messages/emails sent to users
  • - Adapt frontity.org to user onboarding
  • - Adapt docs.frontity.org to user onboarding
  • - Adapt community to user onboarding
  • - Adapt blog.frontity.org to user onboarding
  • - Adapt CLI to user onboarding
  • - Adapt Github to user onboarding

• Spread the word!

  • - Write a blog post when beta is launched to explain its features
  • - Notify subscribers and beta testers by email when beta is launched
  • - Social media announcement
  • - Share posts in interesting platforms when beta is launched:
    • - Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19990981.
    • - Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/frontity/
    • - Betapage - https://betapage.co/startup/frontity
    • - Product Hunt
    • - JS / React forums
    • - WP and React
  • - Contact Key Opinion Leaders to see if they’d like to test Frontity
  • - Contant WP Agencies
  • - Plan newsletter content, updates and frequency

• Community

  • - Define a way to reward active users
  • - Define interesting events to attend & organize
  • - Create interesting topics to discuss
  • - Define other ways to collect feedback

[SantosGuillamot]

I have been working these days specially on changing the old docs and preparing a place to play around with Frontity: test.frontity.io.

On the following days, I will be preparing a page explaining how to contribute and getting the docs ready for the beta launch

[Reyes]

Hey! these days I’ve been working on updating the readme.txt of the WP-PWA plugin. I also wrote a post explaining what Frontity is, how it works and main differences with Gatsby. Will be soon published!

[Pablo]

I’m going to be focused on preparing the new iteration of our site, so we can launch it when the beta is finally ready.

[SantosGuillamot]

I have prepared a first version about why to contribute to open source and Frontity and how to do it. The copies and the content are not finished, but it is an initial version to share our insights. These are the links:

https://docs.frontity.org/contributing/why-contributing
https://docs.frontity.org/contributing/how-to-contribute

[Pablo]

Hey Mario,

Good job

I think it is a bit confusing that the “contributing” parent page is blank https://docs.frontity.org/contributing. Could you add a brief explanation there as well?

[SantosGuillamot]

Yeah, totally agree. I didn’t realize Gitbook generates an automatic list. I will add a brief explanation as you say. Thanks!

[Pablo]

- Redefine Homepage

I’ve finished this part

[Reyes]

Today, I’ll be working on the new website. More specifically on the copy, benefits/why Frontity section and the new “About us” page.

[SantosGuillamot]

• - How is Frontity organized?
• - Contributing section

The first version of these tasks is finished. We will iterate through them and review the copies but they are ready for the launch.

I will continue working on preparing the community

[SantosGuillamot]

I’ll keep working today on the community and think and design how is the user onboarding.

[Reyes]

Hey!

Someone asked on Twitter how Frontity is tackling server side rendering: https://twitter.com/antesepic/status/1125494208859594756.

I think we should address this question in the new website. We can probably use the info we already have on GitHub (https://github.com/frontity/frontity/#-how-does-frontity-work). @development-team, is there anything else that you’d like to add or that we should keep in mind?

[luisherranz]

I’ve opened a new topic to discuss how we explain Server Side Rendering:

Server Side Rendering

We can use this topic to talk about how we explain Frontity’s Server Side Rendering. This is the info we have right now in the Github repository: » How does Frontity work? Frontity is a React app that lives in Node.js, separated from WordPress. It uses the WP API to retrieve content and generate the final HTML. It is also capable to generate AMP pages with the same React code and CSS. [Frontity & WordPress explanation] Why a different Node.js server? React is a JavaScript library. In order…

[Reyes]

Great, thanks Luis!

[Pablo]

I’ve been working on the site, I’ve included in the homepage all the features and benefits, it’s almost ready.

Today I’ll be working on the About us landing.

[SantosGuillamot]

I am working on improving the docs. We are going to add a page to collect the main features of the framework and make a first version of the faq. I hope I can finish it today and I will continue focusing on having everything ready for the beta

[Reyes]

I’m working today in the blog post to announce the beta launch, as well as the email we’ll send to all subscribers. Beside this, I’d like to review some parts of the docs with Mario.

[SantosGuillamot]

Prepare docs

• - How is Frontity organized?
• - Contributing section
• - Features
• - F.A.Q

I have made a first iteration of the Features and the FAQ. We still have to review the copy and check if everything makes sense, but I think that is enough for a first version. Any feedback is welcome !

I don’t like that much the style, but Gitbook is a bit limited, maybe it is better to invest more time once we migrate docs to Frontity. And maybe I used too many emojis . Any feedback here is also welcome.

These are the links:

Features >> https://docs.frontity.org/frontity-features
FAQ >> https://docs.frontity.org/faq

[Reyes]

We still have to review the copy

I’m on it!

Is it ok @SantosGuillamot if I make the changes directly on GitBook?