Sunday, April 3rd, 2022. Today Seamless Collab goes live! Before I tell you more about Seamless Collab (my very first SaaS project), let me give you the origin story. My background is in web design, I first started designing websites about 12 years ago as of today. Any web designer will tell you that the hardest aspects of the web design process is getting content from your clients. The content creation aspect of the project always took the longest for me and often delayed the project and ultimately prevented me from taking on new work. If you're reading this as a web designer I'm sure you can attest to this. I could tell that my clients were often overwhelmed with the thought of having to creating content for their website (if they elected to create their own content). I understood the concern because:
What inspired Seamless Collab? The problems with the traditional way of creating content
- Most people don't like to write
- Most people are not good at writing
- Admittedly, content creation is a lot of work
If the client did provide content, there were still a few questions that we'd go back and forth on- they'd always ask:
- What exactly do I need to write about? What should I put on the about (as an example) page?
- How long does it need to be? Do I write one sentence to describe a service or one paragraph?
- Can you give me some examples, please?
As the web designer, after getting content, without fail I would end up:
- Editing the client's content to better fit their website layout.
- Creating content to supplement what they provided.
- Asking the client to send the content in one file or email (I'm sure most can related).
- Spending hours going through emails searching for content that I thought had already been sent to me (inbox management has never been my strong suite).
There had to be a better way of doing things right? A seamless way - well, now there is - enter Seamless Collab.
What is Seamless Collab?
Seamless Collab allows web designers and their clients to collaborate on content creation without the back and forth. No emails or documents to wade through. How? The tool generates a Collab version of the website you're building, so rather than entering content into a word document or through emails, clients can enter their content directly into a fully functional website design. After laying a website out, the lorem ipsum or placeholder text is editable by client. With Seamless Collab, the client visually understand exactly what they need to write about, they see how long content needs to be, and the entire web design is the example! Perhaps the best part of Seamless Collab is that it's 100% free to use!
How to use Seamless Collab?
Using the tool is as simple as:
- Designing your website
- Generating the Collab version of the site
- Sending the Collab link to your client to populate!
Our explainer video below explains it visually, I think you'll love it.
Developers of Seamless Collab
I am the Front-End Developer of Seamless Collab, while Ferdinand Yeboah is the backend developer. React JS, AWS and a few others tools (that I won't disclose ;)) were used in the building of Seamless Collab! The tool is live and is receiving great feedback. We're working to improve it each day, check it out at: https://seamlesscollab.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikV3k179v4o