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The times are 🔁 they a-changin’?

Fresh off the PLG press 🗞️: Shopify's quarter, Slack’s 🕸️ notification flowchart, God uses Jira? & PLG drops its guard down

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Hey, you 👋

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve had something super exciting brewing ☕️ back at the ToplyneHQ.

We’ve been hard at work building our next-big-growth-lever 👩🏻‍💻 : Community 👯‍♂️

We’re building nothing short of the Best PLG Community In The World - and would love to hear from YOU on everything you’d want in an ideal community.

It’ll take less than 2 mins, we promise.

Help Us Build The Best PLG Community

Now, back to the regular programming 👇


Into the Twitterverse 🐦🌌

  • The times are 🔁 they a-changin’?

    After a wild couple of years since a notorious virus turned the world upside down… things seem to be reverting back to “normal” (?)

    And we’re not just talking about the masks coming off, lockdowns coming to an end, and office buildings filling up again...

    Shopify announced its quarterly results yesterday and boy were they sobering. The company reported 16% YoY growth 😬 with its subscription revenue (aka SaaS) growing 10% 🥴 and merchant solutions revenue (aka payments) growing 18% 😐

    Twitter avatar for @jaminball
    Jamin Ball @jaminball
    Shopify quarter: - $1,295M rev (+16% YoY) vs $1,334M consensus (3% miss) - $366M subscription rev (+10%) - $929M merchant solutions rev (+18%) - $46.9B GMV (+11%) - 51% GM - (11%) FCF Margin $SHOP
    2:28 PM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
    94Likes9Retweets

    Why? Well, nothing explains it better than Tobi’s letter to Shopify employees:

    Shopify has always been a company that makes the big strategic bets our merchants demand of us - this is how we succeed. Before the pandemic, ecommerce growth had been steady and predictable. Was this surge to be a temporary effect or a new normal? And so, given what we saw, we placed another bet: We bet that the channel mix - the share of dollars that travel through ecommerce rather than physical retail - would permanently leap ahead by 5 or even 10 years. We couldn’t know for sure at the time, but we knew that if there was a chance that this was true, we would have to expand the company to match. It’s now clear that bet didn’t pay off.

    Source: US Census Bureau
  • Pfft 😒 how hard can that b...

    The nightmarishly complex labyrinth under the seemingly simple everyday occurrence that is “the Slack notification” 👇🏻

    Twitter avatar for @mengxilu
    Mengxi Lu @mengxilu
    Found this gem of "How Slack Decides to Send a Notification" flowchart. This is a perfect example of "how hard could that be..."
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    4:33 PM ∙ Jul 22, 2022
    1,653Likes206Retweets
  • The story of how God could’ve taken a Sunday off if he used Shortcut instead of Jira 😬

    Twitter avatar for @danielsanwarner
    Dan Warner @danielsanwarner
    Six days with @useShortcut
    Twitter avatar for @martyrdison
    Madison Campbell @martyrdison
    do you think god used jira to create the universe in 7 days that’s a really fast sprint
    5:43 AM ∙ Jul 16, 2022
    13Likes3Retweets

🔎 The PLG hunt

  • Meet your personal savings assistant, Pogo👋🏼


    In an age where corporations benefit from your data; Pogo is on a mission to flip the script and put the power back in consumers’ hands 🙌🏼


    With an impressive list of backers (Chainsmokers 🎶, Harry Stebbings from 20VC, Founders @ Clearbit and Stripe, etc.); the company has helped thousands of families in America save millions of dollars and boasts of user retention on par with the likes of Twitter and Instagram 🤯

    Twitter avatar for @domwong_
    Dom Wong @domwong_
    Thrilled to share that Pogo has raised $14.8M! This past year, we’ve launched an app used by hundreds of thousands of families, consistently generating millions of dollars in earnings and savings. Our goal is simple: to make you more money by unlocking the power of your data.
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    3:44 PM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
    546Likes58Retweets


    What hot and upcoming PLG company are you most excited about? 👇🏻

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Growth Stories 🚀

Hey there, Gorgeous 🥺

With over 9,000+ customers and well over $25M in ARR Gorgias is successfully empowering e-commerce businesses to deliver a top-notch customer experience by using hyper-personalized growth levers.

The Takers? Steve Madden, Olipop, and 9,000+ other DTC brands.


Fundraising, Venture Capital and Exits 🤑

  • 15five bags $52M to help HR leaders thrive. ❤️


    A trailblazer in building technology to manage talent, 15five helps with manager effectiveness and employee engagement.

    HR teams at Spotify and Pendo swear by it. 👩🏻‍💻

Twitter avatar for @15Five
15Five @15Five
🎉 We’re so excited to announce that we’ve received $52 Million in Series C funding, led by Quad Partners! 🧡 Thank you to all our 15Five customers, employees, and partners. Without you, none of this would be possible. Read more on the blog: hubs.li/Q01hbLLF0
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1:00 PM ∙ Jul 21, 2022
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  • Tecton raises a 100M Series C! 💻


    Pioneering the emerging function of “MLOps” (feeding and managing massive volumes of data created by AI/ML technologies each day)—

    Tecton helps companies build and manage their AI/ML features much faster with less data engineering effort.

Twitter avatar for @TectonAI
Tecton @TectonAI
What a day! Earlier today, we announced our $100M Series C funding round led by @kleinerperkins, Tiger Global, & @BainCapVC w/ participation from @SnowflakeDB @databricks @a16z & @sequoia. Read more from Tecton CEO @mikedelbalso here: bit.ly/3azDVqw
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9:05 PM ∙ Jul 12, 2022


Launches, events, and releases

  • Give your Slack the superpower it needs ft. Slackmin! 💫

    Slackmin enables you to do all your robust admin functions within Slack, from analytics to content management, to responding to customer queries or issuing refunds.

    Brb, on our way to save some 💸&⏰ with Slackmin!

    PS: You should too! 👀

Twitter avatar for @PLGWorks
PLG Works @PLGWorks
We've just launched Slackmin on Product Hunt! The Superpower for Slack enabling you to easily perform robust admin functions. Check it out now. producthunt.com/posts/slackmin Don't forget to upvote & leave your feedback. #slack #CMS #productivity #NodeJS #opensource
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7:02 AM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
29Likes17Retweets

  • Notion Mobile gets a better motion! 🚀


    Faster, smoother, and bugs fixed, we love every bit of this (much-needed) upgrade!

Twitter avatar for @NotionHQ
Notion @NotionHQ
Your mobile app just got a (well-deserved 😅) upgrade. It’s now: - faster — 2× on iOS, 3× on Android - redesigned using native components - easier to navigate, with a new home tab And we’re just getting started!
This GIF shows a side-by-side of two mobile devices set against a blue background. Text designates the left as "Before" and the right as "Now." Both devices open the Notion mobile app and navigate to the Marketing home page. This takes the left device ~5 seconds, and the right device ~2 seconds.
4:04 PM ∙ Jul 20, 2022
6,464Likes559Retweets



Nerding out on PLG 🤓
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To be gated, or not to be gated, that is the question.🤨


Kyle Poyar of OpenView shows us that by simply letting our proverbial guard down, SaaS websites can drive up double-digit engagement. 🤯

Go on, Cheggit.


Blazing Hot Meme Zone ⚡️


In a parallel world, where Toplyne doesn’t exist…

Picture courtesy: ProductHunt

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