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INTRODUCING: ZAHNK KICKSTARTER 2.0
Matt Leirdahl
Chief Executive Zahnker & Co Founder [email protected]
Zahnk.com We’re back! As you may remember, a few months ago we launched our first Kickstarter campaign in order to raise money to complete the development of our app. Unfortunately, that project was unsuccessful, but we’ve learned quite a few lessons (I wrote about them here). Now, two months later, we’ve acted upon those lessons and put together a new and greatly improved campaign and we are ready to launch! As a refresher, I’d like to give a brief overview of what our app does. Zahnk connects users to local businesses and their deals on food, drinks, etc. in real time. Zahnk takes all the information it knows about the users and intelligently recommends deals that the users actually want to see. On the flip side, small businesses are able to create deals in under 30 seconds on the app. Those deals show up on the users’ phone in real time – instantly driving customers into that business. They can compete with big chain marketing at a fraction of the cost and effort. I’d like to thank everyone that contributed to our first Kickstarter campaign. We’ve been hard at work over the past few months and I’m really excited to share what we’ve come up with!
NEW USER INTERFACE One of the main focuses of the development team during the past few months was on the user experience. The app looks great; we’ve come up with a whole new framework for how the app looks and I’m excited to share the new dashboard:
NEW FEATURES The development team has also been working hard on bringing us some new features. One of the most notable features is the Vendor Statistics page. Vendors are able to get a clear picture of how their Zahnk Campaign is doing with a series of graphs and charts that display information about the users that entered their establishment. Of course, the vendor will never see any of their customers’ names or usernames.
NEW REWARDS We’ve also come up with a whole new list of rewards to give to our backers in order to entice them to help us out. $1 – Receive special updates from our team including sneak peaks at new features!
$2 – Have your name or business listed on the ‘Thank You’ section of our app and website!
$5 – Have yourself or your business immortalized on our Backer Wall! You can include a brief description of yourself and have a Twitter ‘Follow Me’ button on the page! Your name will also be included in the ‘Thank You’ section of the app! $10 – Submit and vote on features to include in Zahnk when you pledge!
$20 – Free Udemy class on jQuery mobile from our development team which will walk you through the basics of how to use this powerful framework to make your app or website look great!
$25 – Rock this limited edition Zahnk tshirt!
$50 – Hand written thankyou note and the limited edition tshirt!
$100 – Rock this limited edition Zahnk hoodie!
$500 – Meet with our team! We’ll personally walk you through the app, answer any questions you have, and talk about anything you’d like!
$1000 – We’ll come meet you! Again, we’ll personally walk you through the app, answers any questions you have, and talk about anything you’d like! We’ll also let you name one of the features of the app!
WHAT WE NEED While we have accomplished quite a bit so far, we still have quite a ways to go. This is where we need your help. Server Costs: Our current server can accommodate all of our present testing needs, but we will need to move to a scaleable platform before we launch to ensure continuous availability.
Marketing: We need to get the word out! We’ll need a budget to be able to market on campuses and big cities to get people to use the app to drive value for both vendors and users. Without participation of both users and vendors, the app won’t be effective!
Additional Development Costs: Our development team is extremely talented and we need to keep them working to continually improve the app!
CONCLUSION Our app is built to connect users and small business in a way that has never been done before–in real time! Again, I’d like to thank everyone who contributed to our first campaign and I’d like to thank everyone in advance for contributing to our new Kickstarter campaign. Please reach out to us with any feedback that you may have and share with your friends! Share This
About Zahnk Zahnk connects users to local businesses and their deals on food, drinks, etc. in real time. Zahnk takes all the information it knows about the users and intelligently recommends deals that the users actually want to see. On the flip side, small businesses are able to create deals in under 30 seconds on the app. Those deals show up on the users’ phone in real time – instantly driving customers into that business. They can compete with big chain marketing at a fraction of the cost and effort.
