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What we learned from dogfooding call a BOX

17. November 202017. November 2020Martin Treiber 1902 views 3 minutes

Google used the term dogfooding (“eating your own dogfood”) in 2009 to describe the practice of an organization using its own product. We did recently a very similar thing with call a BOX, a self-storage service. After we finished the implementation of the webapge and the progressive web app for our customer, we simply used...

Jitsi for the win

16. April 202016. April 2020Martin Treiber 1928 views 1 minute

Everybody seems to make video calls all the time these days. The usage of Zoom has skyrocketed and so have the privacy issues with this videoconferencing app. As alternative we recommend Jitsi. It’s open source (yay!), it uses a good level of encryption (yay!) and you can install it on your own server (yay!). And...

Chatbots on Smartphones: It’s not a love story, but it’s worth trying

2. November 20192. November 2019Martin Treiber 761 views 2 minutes

It’s easy, you might say. In fact, there are several ways to use chatbots on messenger platforms (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) or to integrate them on the mobile website or apps via widget. However, these methods have several problems: 1. Mix of business and private. If you use a messenger platform for your business, you...

Wie bringt man einen Chatbot auf das Smartphone?

2. November 20192. November 2019Martin Treiber 919 views 2 minutes

Ist doch ganz einfach, möchte man meinen. In der Tat gibt es mehrere Möglichkeiten, Chatbots auf Messenger-Plattformen (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) zu verwenden oder auf der mobilen Webseite bzw. in Apps per Widget zu integrieren. Diese Methoden haben allerdings mehrere Probleme: 1. Mix von Business und privaten. Nützt man eine Messenger-Plattform für sein Business, konkurriert...

Why News-Pull is no Solution for WhatsApp Newsletters

1. November 20191. November 2019Martin Treiber 781 views 2 minutes

With the approaching end of WhatsApp newsletters, companies are looking for alternatives to prevent the loss of their WhatsApp newsletter audience. One solution is the switch to News-Pull. Here the subscriber must open WhatsApp, switch to the newsletter channel and send a message (for example, a letter). Only then will the subscriber receive the newsletter...