I’m having a bit of a crisis. Normally I charge into building a new app and I work on it pretty steadily until it’s ready for launch. This time is different.
I’ve been working on Receiver for months. Then, I went on a month-long trip and didn’t write any code the entire time. In fact, I barely opened my laptop.
Now that I’m back, I looked at what I was writing for Receiver and I feel like someone else wrote most of the code. It’s very complicated, and I just can’t get back in the groove yet. And I’m second-guessing exactly what I even want to build into the first version. So I’m probably going to strip it down to the studs and release something that’s valuable and gives me a great base to build on for the future.
So I decided to do something that’s been on my mind and re-write/re-launch Metadater, to get my legs back underneath me, so to speak. We wrote it years ago and ran it for awhile, but had to shut it down because we needed to focus and didn’t have the dev team that we have now.
Metadater lets your customers securely type important information (metadata) directly into their customer record in your Stripe account. You add a Javascript snippet to your app and we pop up a modal over your app from time to time that collects information from your customers. It’s pretty useful! Since you determine the data that’s entered, you can use it to save all kind of things. I’ve heard of people in the past using it to do mini surveys to find out useful things like “How did you hear about us?”
We’ve used it at Stunning to save customer SMS numbers, first names, addresses for receipts, and more. Since Stunning automatically pulls in any metadata fields you add to your customers in Stripe, you can use any of the metadata you collect within your customer emails to make them more personalized. And you can use that metadata in any other system that connects to your Stripe account and lets you pull it in.
This time we’re charging for Metadater so that we can afford to keep it running indefinitely. It’ll still be free to start, though.
If you are interested, sign up here and I’ll let you know when we launch!