1/ Are operator angels the future of investing? 🤔
Here is why we chose to raise $3.3M with a group of operator angels (and why we think you should do the same) – a thread👇🏾
We've been hustling for the last 9 months to ship our V1. We started with a first step, designing a friction-less onboarding:
🌟Import all your contacts sources
👫Get rid of duplicates
🧩Sort them into groups to map out your network
🔍Search for anything, blazing fast
TADAAAAA 🎉
We’re out of the hood after 18 months under the radar!
Excited to keep building the next generation CRM for teams.
Please support us on Product Hunt 😻🙏
Folk is taking on the challenge of reinventing contact management for teams and individuals. It's been months we're polishing the app to provide our users with a delightful experience. You can request access on our new landing page - now live:
⚠️404 CONTEST⚠️
404s are where design and dev teams show their creativity and attention to detail. We love to see how companies play with this boring page so we gathered our favorite 404s to play a game! Like/retweet your favorite 404 in the thread below and we'll see who wins👀
We made it, we've reached Product of the Day on
@ProductHunt
. We can't thank you enough for all your amazing support 🖤😻
P.S.: if you haven’t upvoted us yet, you can still do it below (the battle is still on for Product of the Month 😉)
🤩 Exclusive new drop!
@roxannevarza
, has shared with us her exclusive list of the top 20 woman angels!
Import it straight into your own folk CRM here:
It’s a big day at folk for 2 reasons:
1) We’re releasing MAGIC FIELDS!
Combining AI & the contact data you have in folk. It’s like ChatGPT built into your CRM.
2) We’re on Product Hunt!
Please upvote – your support makes all the difference for us:
🚨 Attention: live on Product Hunt today! folkX, our Chrome extension that lets you build and edit contact lists on the go, is having its debut.
Please show us support with an upvote:
While you patiently wait to get on board with us… Here’s a sneak peek of Folk’s core features!👀
First blocks of our long term mission: to bring your network into one place, and get things done 💪🏼
It won’t be long till you see those live 🔥
Feeling like you need a better solution to manage your contacts? We shared our vision of what a personal CRM should be: an address book on steroids, customized to your needs. We're bringing back the "personal" in personal CRM.
Let's pimp our browsers!😎
Launching our Chrome extension got us thinking about others so we gathered the best ones to boost productivity!
Help us keep this up to date! What's your favorite extension? Tag it in the comments, we'll add it to the article 💪
Watch out for folkX! 😎
Our Chrome extension is constantly updated, to make sure you can use folk's full potential.
Try it now on LinkedIn and Gmail and start building your custom CRM: 💪🏽
Introducing folkx 2.0, a completely revamped and improved version of our Chrome extension ✨
New UX, new design, new actions, to supercharge you network from LinkedIn and Gmail!
folk is Product of the Week on
@ProductHunt
. We can’t thank you enough for that 🖤😻
We are beyond motivated to keep building the future of CRMs.
The battle is still on for Product of the Month 😉, your support could make all the difference:
📢 New feature alert 📢
We have just shipped our LinkedIn extension 🥳
You can now save any contact from LinkedIn to your folk, in one click!
Sign up to folk and download the extension here:
We've just finished our DemoTime at
@efounders
! It's an opportunity to show our product to other teams 💥
Getting out of the woods can be scaring, it's yet super exciting 🔥
Onboardings will go on next week! 🔜
🎉 Exciting news 🎉 folk is now available as a desktop app!
You can now access the power of folk directly on your desktop, bringing a whole new level of speed and convenience to your favorite CRM.
What are you waiting for? Go download it now!
You’ve probably accumulated hundreds of contacts over the years.
Trying to clean and categorize them manually probably sounds like a nightmare.
No fear – folk will automatically categorize your contacts into groups for you.
Try it for yourself and see!
Build custom Kanban views to activate your contacts in folk 📊
From hiring process, to sales workflows, to fundraising or deal flow management, create your own custom pipelines in folk!
We’re now Product of the Month! 😻 Thank you all for the support, this means the world to us.
Find out how we used our own tool to centralize all our relationships for D-Day, engage with them, and follow-up in the right way to get the support needed ⬇️
We’ve just launched our integration with
@zapier
so you can centralize all your contacts into folk 💪
From
@Twitter
followers to
@typeform
respondents, connect all your favorite tools to folk to create, update or find contacts in real-time.
We’ve released a new version of our Chrome Extension 🎉
Add comments, or consult existing ones, when you add a contact from a LinkedIn profile or a Gmail thread. The comments will be visible in your folk extension, for you to edit the folk data from the tools you're using.
You asked, we answered 🫶
Meet folkX for Twitter, the Chrome extension that lets you import contacts directly from Twitter (plus LinkedIn and Gmail)
Build your contacts from Twitter for prospecting, hiring, community management, and more.
Check it out:
Working on our first Chrome extension, got us thinking about the tools that have been dictating the way we work for decades.👇🏾
We believe the future of productivity rhymes with "ubiquitous productivity interface" 🤗
Putting a lot of efforts on design from day 1 shows results ✨Proud to be ranked among the Best Landing Pages in the french startup ecosystem! Check it out here
Thanks
@mozzaio
for the shoutout and to our designers
@MeghanRegior
@DDLaForest
@joy_pepper_
♥
🏆The Best 6 Landing Pages — French Tech Edition 2020 🏆🇫🇷
We asked 13 products designers to share their thoughts and nominate their favorite pages:
published by
@simoelalj
#FrenchTech
#LandingPages
Meet the new and improved mobile version of folk! Now, as well as being able to search, edit, and add new contacts on the go, you can:
👀 View groups and views
🧰 Make use of the sidebar
🏢 Show people & companies
Just go to on your mobile browser 😄
🎉 We did it!
(Again!)
Yesterday we launched folk 2.0 on Product Hunt, and we got over 1.3k votes to make Product of the Day! Thanks so much to everyone who upvoted and supported us 💜
Missed yesterday's launch? You can still show your support here:
Messages in is your all-in-one emailing toolkit, and it just got even better. Now you can:
🚀 Send up to 5k emails in one blast
🤖 Write personalized emails with AI
👣 See detailed analytics at a glance
💌 Follow up easily on every campaign
Check it out!
Get the right contacts in less than a second 💨
You can now find all the contacts that work in the same company through the 'company filter', pronto! 👌🏼
New kid on the block: folkX for Gmail & LinkedIn! 🥳
Having different apps working independently isn't enough to boost your productivity. Collaboration between tools matters. To limit context switching and useless data migration you can use folk directly from LinkedIn and Gmail.
Looking to get your business in the press? 👀
These are all the tricks
@eFounders
uses on folk to get its startups in the media 🗞
Thanks
@tiboel
@sjuliabarron
🙏🏼
You liked it, so we did it again!😁
Our second guide is here and it's all about no-code.
Nowadays you don't need to know how to code to build a great product – there are tools for that!
Want to know what no-code can do for you? Get the guide here: 💌
folkX just got an upgrade 😎
Our Chrome extension now allows you to save a whole
#LinkedIn
search in your folk network, just by clicking on the extension on your Chrome browser!
Download the extension here and start building your network! 🚀
📱 It just got easier to manage your
@instagram
influencers!
Keep track of them all, from the nano to the mega-influencers, with folkX for Instagram 🔥🔥
The extension lets you add Insta profiles to your folk CRM with a couple of clicks.
Try it now:
Our CEO,
@tiboel
, explains here why he decided to launch
@FolkHQ
. With the great team we're building, there are lots of annoucements to come... Stay tuned !
Today, we're officially launching
@FolkHQ
I'll be the CEO of Folk, alongside my role
@efounders
Curious to discover the 5 reasons why I decided just this once to take the CEO-role?
Signatures are the nodes of business 🔗
🧩 Closing a new hire
📈 Finalizing a client contract
🥳 Dealing a partnership
✍🏻 Completing a fundraising
and much more...
Centralize your signatories in a single place using
@FolkHQ
+
@Yousignfr
⬇️
On folk, we were importing all your contacts directly into your personal workspace
We've added an additional step. Your contacts are now first consolidated into a view called "Sort my contacts" that works as a buffer. You can this way choose which contacts to keep and focus on🎯
Don't mess with us when it comes to design👊🏻
At Folk, we're committed to building a brand-new way of interacting with your contacts. We want it to be gorgeous, intuitive and fast!
We're looking for the rockstar Lead Designer that will help in that quest
💌 Brand new in folk: email templates!
With folk you can bulk email entire groups of contacts.
Now we’ve collated the best templates, making it easy to reach out for:
-Sales
-Partnerships
-Recruiting
-Fundraising
-UX research
-Link building
& more
Try it:
From the master of feedback loops
@mboudoukhane
, CEO of
@CycleProduct
, use this email template to close the loop and delight your users.
Perfect to send out in bulk with folk’s Messages function:
It's a simple start: synchronize all your contacts from your mail providers to have them in one-place. In one-click. Like magic✨
Gmail ✅
iCloud ✅
Outlook✅
🗞️Stop press! Big announcement.
You’ve always loved folk for sending ultra-personalized emails in bulk, but now you can do much more!
With Messages, you can view analytics, share drafts, get an overview of all campaigns, and more.
Here's a quick how-to:
Outlook users, we see you! 👀
Everyone’s got a Gmail integration (including us), but we haven’t forgotten our Outlook users! folk is launching a full Outlook integration very soon.
We’re opening a limited access soft launch now - reply “Outlook” to be part of it!
#Outlook
We are using
@ScreenFlow
at Folk, to showcase our new product features with videos & GIF. It's a very smooth and intuitive tool for recording and editing. (See below one example)
What are your favorite tools for product marketing?
Managing your network starts with having a clean, up-to-date repository of contacts. With folk, automatically detect duplicates. Get rid of them to keep your network tidy. Enjoy your address book, now on steroids.
Congrats
@Spendesk
on raising an additional 100€m and officially becoming a unicorn! 🎉🦄
We're incredibly thrilled for the whole team! For us, it marks the 2nd eFounders company to reach unicorn status (after
@aircall
)
⬇️
folk has been named one of the Top 100 Cloud Challengers by
@NotionCapital
! 🙌
We’re honored to be included in this annual report on Europe’s top 100 early stage, B2B SaaS/Cloud companies.
🤗 Good news! It’s now even easier to add new contacts into your folk CRM: you can now do it in-line, just like in a spreadsheet.
There’s a reason they call us “simple as a spreadsheet, powerful as a CRM”!
Try it for yourself:
Thanks are due 🙏🏼💙
Last week was a big week for folk. We presented our vision to the world and we unveiled the results of our seed round of funding.
The amazing support we have received got us all emotional 🥲 so we wanted to give a shout-out to the amazing coverage we got!
What’s the link between product releases and Looney Tunes characters? ;)
Each of them are unique but are only one piece of the puzzle. That’s why we’re naming our versions after the Looney Tunes.
Our V1.0 is named Porky Pig and now Granny is in the works for V1.1. Stay tuned!
Got a CSV file of contacts to upload to folk? The experience just got a whole lot easier 🤗
-Import companies as individual contacts
-Create custom fields during the import
Try it out for yourself in folk!
🔥 Table views on folk just got even better!
Traditional CRMs are known for being clunky and hard to edit – but not folk.
A light and easy-to-edit interface is our top priority, and we’ve got the chops to prove it…
2nd gen Productivity goes much further, is not constrained by the real world and completely revolutionizes the way we work
🧮 XLS ⇒
@airtable
📋DOC ⇒
@NotionHQ
📊PPT ⇒
@MiroHQ
📇VCF ⇒
@FolkHQ
1st gen productivity tools simply mirror the way we used to work in the physical world🙊
🧮Spreadsheet ⇒ XLS
📋Paper ⇒ DOC
📊Slide ⇒ PPT
📇Rolodex ⇒ VCF
what about the second generation?
In the past 3 weeks, I've done a total of 50 interviews for
@eFounders
and
@FolkHQ
Folk. It's been an incredibly efficient process. Here's what I've learned :
The devil is in the details 😈
We've just reworked our views list. You can easily drag and drop views to order them by importance, and easily create new pipelines or table views— for people or companies.
In case you missed it, we’re on Product Hunt today, launching v2.0 of folk, including Magic Fields! These are custom fields that use AI to generate... whatever you want 🪄
Please take a moment to give us an upvote, your support means a lot to us:
Working in real estate means dealing with👇🏾
👷🏾 Contractors
📐 Architects
👔 Estate agents
👩🏾🎨 Designers
💰 Clients
It's a lot to handle 🤯
This is how
@hellolumeeo
makes buying, renting and selling properties a piece of cake thanks to folk 🍰
Another one 🎤
New feature: folk's Strongest Connection field lets you know who on your team is the closest connection to a contact. Take the guesswork out of:
👥 Who should ask for intros
📩 Choosing the best sender
🧩 Deciding on a relationship/account owner
Live in folk now!
With
@folkhq
, connect all your email inbox and synchronize all your contacts to have them in one place. Then you can organize your network into groups, collaborate with teammates on your contacts & activate your contacts!
Introducing Triggers on
@zapier
!
Unlock the full potential of your data on folk… whenever something happens on folk, you can trigger an action on Zapier
Imagine the possibilities....
Close a deal? Send an instant Slack notification!
Add a new contact? Automatically send them
We're currently looking for a Head of Product Design at
@FolkHQ
. The challenge: help us reinvent the way people and companies manage their contacts. Link below 👇
Last year we launched folkX, a Chrome extension that allows you to add new contacts directly from LinkedIn and Gmail. Now, we have a question for you! 🤓
Which platform would you like to use folkX with? Share your choice in the comments! 🙏🏼
Did you know that you can use folk on mobile??
With the mobile version of the app you can:
🔍 Find contacts in seconds
📝 View and take notes on your contacts
🆕 Add new contacts
Just open folk on your mobile browser and have your contacts to hand wherever you are.
💜Sharing is caring! New in folk: share a list of contacts publicly.
Generate a URL to share a view with anyone, even with no folk account. Great for sharing lists of: investors with founders, candidates with a recruiter, leads with sales teams & much more.
Live now in folk!
Another week, another bunch of updates 🔥
⚡️ New design to sort your contacts blazing fast
🔍 Easily associate companies to contacts with the company suggestion
➕ Create new contacts manually (people & companies)
More info here:
New in folk: Magic fields 🔮
Combine the power of AI with the contact data you have in folk and create… whatever you want!
Check out how it works in video with Julie:
Also: we’re live on Product Hunt, please upvote today!
'Comments' is one of our users' favorite features of 2021 🤗
Assign teammates, write notes after a meeting, follow-up on a call... We've pimped comments on folk so you can use its full potential! 💪🏽 Head over to to try it!
🪄 New list alert!
@davidcapple
, who headed up Customer Success at Typeform and Notion, has made a list of the most prominent Customer Success leaders.
Import it straight into your folk here: