Product updates

Product updates (in the sidebar under Grow) lets you write short announcements once and show them in two places: a What's new popup inside your app, in your brand colors and logo, and a public changelog page. Each person sees an update once, and Atlis can measure who actually tried the feature afterwards.

1. 1

   Add the script to your app

   Paste it once, on every page of your app (it's separate from the tracking script and works next to it). Your brand color, button color and logo come from Profile & Brand.

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   <script src="https://www.theatlis.com/atlis-updates.js" data-workspace="YOUR_WORKSPACE_ID" async></script>

2. 2

   Optional: add a What's new button

   Any element with data-atlis-updates opens the list of updates and gets a small dot while something is unread.

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   <button data-atlis-updates>What's new</button>

3. 3

   Write and publish

   Click New update, add a title, a short text, an image, GIF or video and a button, check the live preview, then click Publish. People see it the next time they open your app (the script refreshes at most every 30 minutes).

How new updates appear

• Each person gets at most one popup or card per visit and one every 3 days. Everything else waits in the list.
• What someone has seen is remembered in their own browser, so showing updates costs no tracked events.
• The first time someone sees the script, only updates from the last 14 days count as new.
• On phones the popup opens as a sheet from the bottom. Esc and the close button dismiss it, and the colors follow a light or dark page.
• Add data-show="button" (or popup, card) to the script tag to override the setting on one site.

Who sees it

Don't interrupt people still onboarding is on for new updates: people who haven't activated yet don't get the popup, but the update is still in their list. The script reads id, plan and isActivated from window.AtlisConfig.user if you use it, or you can pass them yourself. On Growth, Scale and trial you can also limit an update to some plans or products.

window.AtlisUpdates.identify({ id: user.id, plan: user.plan, product: "albert", isActivated: true });

Interactive updates

On Growth, Scale and trial an update can do more than announce:

window.AtlisUpdates.on("action", (a) => {
  if (a.value === "dark") setTheme("dark");
});
window.AtlisUpdates.on("preview", (a) => previewTheme(a.value));

• Answers count once per person, and the totals show on each update. Answers saved on a profile need the person's id; if identity verification is on, also pass userHash to identify().
• Images you upload are resized for you. GIFs can be up to 300 KB. Videos can be YouTube, Vimeo or Loom links, or an https link to a .mp4 or .webm file.
• Use a tracked link for the button to count clicks.

Who tried it

Pick the Feature event your app sends when someone uses the feature (Growth, Scale and trial). In the daily update Atlis counts how many people active since the launch have done that event since, and how many of them pay. The update shows X of Y active users tried it, and Email the people who haven't tried it creates a custom segment and opens Broadcasts with it. When fewer than a quarter of 20 or more active users have tried it after 3 days, it's also one of your next best moves.

Schedule an update

On Starter and up, set Go live at and click Schedule. Atlis suggests your busiest hour, worked out from when your users are active, so more people see it fresh.

Your public changelog

Every published update is also on your changelog at https://www.theatlis.com/updates/YOUR_WORKSPACE_ID, with filters for New, Improved and Fixed and an RSS feed at the same address plus /rss.xml. Link to it from your site or footer. On the Free plan the popup shows a small Powered by Atlis link; paid plans don't.

Limits

Script reference