I don’t often talk about business on my personal blog (well, at least I haven’t in a while!), but I wanted to give friends and family an update of why I’ve been so busy over the past few months.
We’ve been building some pretty cool things over at our startup and we’re getting close to releasing our first product. For more, read on!
We’re happy to introduce Rafflecopter!
What is Rafflecopter? Rafflecopter will be an application that that will help publishers create, run, and organize giveaways on your blog. It’s a service that will allow you to place an embeddable widget that displays the specifications and entrants of the giveaway you’re running.
When a user of Rafflecopter signs in to their account, they’ll see a dashboard of past, current, and future giveaways. They can create a widget for a new giveaway by entering the giveaway specs: start and end dates, ways to enter, rules, etc. You’d then take the widget embed code and place it on your blog, much like a youtube video.
Publishers will benefit from this in several ways. Rafflecopter’s main objective is to save the publisher’s time by allowing them to manage their giveaways from a single location. We hope to improve the entire flow of the giveaway process, from identifying false entries to selecting and presenting a winner. The widget is also designed to allow the entrants to fill out more entry options by providing them the giveaway options in a format that makes it simple and convenient to enter.
We’ve received a lot of feedback from publishers interested in trying out Rafflecopter, but we’re always looking for more. We’re also completing our hunt for private alpha users, so please feel free to get in touch with us if you’re interested in trying it out! We’re looking to release our first product privately sometime in April 2011. So if you’re interested, feel free to e-mail me at greg@rafflecopter.com.
We look forward to helping you!
- Greg
If you’d like to hear more as we go, sign up at Rafflecopter.com
