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Our first "real" (paid) product: Glossa.cc

Embedded comments for everyone

Hi everyone, and sorry for the last weeks of silence.

What started as a simple functionality we needed for our own needs, grew into its own product. When looking for the easiest way to let users comment on content of our reports, we didn’t find any good solutions, that were easy to integrate. So we started to prototype a solution on our own, and here we are, after 6 weeks of work announcing our first SaaS product:

Glossa.cc - An easy way to integrate user comments on arbitrary content

Today, we are happy to announce the launch of glossa.cc, our new service that allows everyone to include content commenting functionality on every web page, just by including 3 lines of HTML code.

We are totally excited about this product, because it contains a LOT of firsts, that were necessary to bring it to life.

It’s the first product, we actually sell. So we had to set up our whole new backend infrastructure for billing and automatic subscription management. Technology-wise it’s our first project where we rely solely on serverless and built a 100% serverless architecture. The first which contains a web-based user frontend and the first which is not focused on machine learning at all, but can be used by people and business for different purposes.

Glossa.cc comment dialog

If all of this sounds interesting to you, here are some things you can do:

  1. Head over to glossa.cc and learn more about Glossa.
  2. Take a look at our demo.glossa.cc page, which allows you to try out how it integrats into different types of web pages.
  3. Create a trial account at admin.glossa.cc and integrate it into your own web pages to get a feeling if it is a good fit for your needs.
  4. And most importantly: Reach out to us! Be it via linkedin, twitter, email or join our discord. We LOVE to get your feedback on this!

What is coming next?

Glossa and its capabilities sparked a lot of new ideas and opened the door to more services and potential products that we believe could help people. Therefore, we will try a couple of things over the next weeks and see what ideas might be worthwhile and what are just pipe dreams.

In parallel, we will take the feedback we get for glossa, improve and polish a few things that we left on the table and then think about which new features we should integrate. High on our own priority list is a real-time update for new comments, but we’ll see if this is something that people would love, too.

Thanks for all your interest and support, we would love to get your opinion.

Cheers,

Christoph

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2022-03-15