Native Hub Mobile Apps | Voters

Native Hub Mobile Apps

in beta

Shawna Thompson

It would be awesome if Hub members could have an app that the creator could send push notifications to when ever new content was added to the Hub or for membership specific events

This would allow you to turn your Hub into a mobile app that your audience could download from the app store on their phone.

February 3, 2021

Will McArthur

Just announced on our Town Hall! Sign up for BETA access here: searchie.io/mobile

Phillis Benson

Will McArthur: Signed up!

Andrew Ferraccioli

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in beta

If you're interested in testing out our native mobile app with Hubs. We're ready :)

Trent Denman

Andrew Ferraccioli: I am for sure!!

Diamond Diamond

Andrew Ferraccioli: Yes please!

Diamond Diamond

Will McArthur would the native mobile app experience include the ability to access content offline as well? If so, that would be huge for my audience practicing mindfulness and deep meditation in the morning, unplugged and without distraction.

Will McArthur

Diamond Diamond: Yes... that would be one of the options on the table for sure. The two biggest things would be offline downloads and push notifications to mobile devices.

Diamond Diamond

Will McArthur: Wonderful. Thanks, Will.

Steve Newton

Will McArthur: This offline content access thingy would work well in my world as well. Newt...

Steve Newton

Would love to have a mobile app builder. I currently use the hub URL and bring that into a 3rd party app builder, which will automatically publish in iOS and Android. If you guys can build this, it will support my product scalability very, very nicely. And I won't have to stray as far outside the Searchie environment. Any way I can upvote this a BILLION times?

Mara Kazantzaki

Steve Newton: which app are you using to do this? Might be a good option until Searchie app is ready 👍🏻

Steve Newton

Mara Kazantzaki: Hi Mara. Currently, I'm using Zapable. There are quite a few different tools out there but this one works well enough for what I'm doing. What I like is that most of the functionality for what I'm doing is built in Searchie and the app just points to a URL. Pretty slick value add/upsell opportunity. Also, what I just realized with the WisdomAI plug-in, there's another opportunity to distinguish my product over what others are doing. When the Searchie team includes the opportunity to search the attachments as well, then that opens up a whole new world for me. I did a test a couple of weeks ago and determined that with niche-focused information, you don't need a lot to train the AI to get a good result back. It contradicts what all the smart kids are saying about needing lots of data to train an AI, but it's pretty clear to me that it works. Hence the comment about attachments. So I will be looking at adding the WisdomAI functionality into any future mobile apps I build as well. Also, I use tags for the WisdomAI. I just produced a series of 87 explainer videos, all within a focused niche. They are all tagged according to the themes that I will want to access them through, and the number of tags for each varies. But every single one of them has a tag called "WisdomAI" and that's how I set the AI search parameters. It works slick.

Jane Harbison

Awesome Will. It means my beautiful people can have their phone/iPad next to their sewing machine when watching my ‘how to videos’ rather than going back and forth to their computer.

Will McArthur

Jane Harbison: Just a heads up: Searchie Hubs are in fact mobile-friendly! So if they open the browser app on their phone or iPad they’ll be able to view the Hub there normally :).

Casey Patch

Jane Harbison: you can also show them how to save the website/hub as a shortcut on their phone homescreen so they just click it like they would an app and it will open up ready to go!

Will McArthur

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in review

Some very promising developments on this front. How big of an impact would this make to you and your audience?

Phillis Benson

Will McArthur: HUGE!!!!

Estêvão Soares

Will McArthur: I am acually leaving Searchie to build our white label app. So this would make us staty.

Will McArthur

Estêvão Soares: I might not get too far in that process if I were you... Keep your eyes peeled for some opportunities to be one of the first to try this out with us.

Estêvão Soares

Will McArthur: I really appreciate the heads up ♥️

Renae

Will McArthur: Fingers crossed for the ability to download video within the app to view offline a la Netflix 🤞🏼

Cláudia Rodrigues

Will McArthur: huge

Tara Hunkin

Will McArthur: oh this would be awesome😱🎉🤞🏻.

Will McArthur: Yay!!! So excited for this x

Trent Denman

Will McArthur: That would be an absolute game changer.

Jennifer

Will McArthur: This would really help to promote my clients to use their education on the go where they many times really need it!

Casey Patch

Will McArthur: sign me up for that pleeeeease haha how exciting!!

Jennifer Holmes

Will McArthur: Awesome! I have been thinking about an app for a few years for my clients to access dog exercise plans from their phone. If this worked with the hub it would be great!

Patricia Rowe

Will McArthur: Huge!

Sofie Marin

Will McArthur: HUGE here too, my customers have said they prefer our education platform and community to be available on the phones rather than on laptops since they spend more time and find it easier to access content on their phones. If you could have mobile availability in different languages too, including push notifications, weekly/daily digests etc...that would be a game changer.

Richard Summers

This would be a GREAT feature and I would be very happy to pay something extra for this benefit.

Estêvão Soares

I would like the option the have a white label App. This usually has additional costs, but usually worthwhile. Taking a hint from passion.io and VidApp that is taking a lot of Kajabi users since they don't have an white label app (but does have a generic Kajabi app).

Janine McCarthy

Is this feature coming? I teach people physical exercises and need a way for them to quickly view the short videos on their phone via an app. Would be great to have a Kajabi-style app where they can access all the course videos and audios - please :)

Phillis Benson

ETA???

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