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Issue №012026

Turncustomerloveinto socialproof thatships.

Plauditly is a small, sharp tool for SaaS founders. Collect testimonials with a link, approve them in a click, and embed a fast, beautiful Wall of Love on your site with one snippet — no React bundle, no framework taxes, no five-minute setup wizard.

Start free — 15 testimonials
See the wall in motion
0kbEmbed bundle, gzipped
∞Hits on the public JSON, edge-cached
0Lines of React on your site
№ 00 · Featured★★★★★
We collect at every contract close, sent from a Linear template. Muscle memory for the whole team within a month.
LB
Lena BrooksHead of CS · Hammerspace
1/5 · Paper
The tour№01½

Watch how it works.

Ten seconds. Three steps. Approve the testimonials you love, style the embed with AI, paste one snippet on your site.

Try it nowPro features shown

Paste it on your site. Watch it work.

This is a live Pro embed running on this very page. Carousel, autoplay, system theme, and custom CSS — all 11 KB gzipped, isolated in a Shadow DOM, loaded async. Copy the snippet, paste it anywhere, and the carousel below will show up exactly the same on your site.

Paste this on any page
<div data-plauditly-widget="wgt_demo"></div>
<script async src="https://plauditly.app/embed/v1/embed.js"></script>
Live previewCarousel · autoplay every 4.5s · pause on hover · custom CSSPro
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What's Pro in this demo
  • AI styling assistant — like the demo above
  • Carousel layout with 4.5s autoplay
  • Pause-on-hover for accessibility
  • Light / Dark / System theme support
  • Custom CSS (rounded corners + hover lift)
  • Pin & drag-reorder testimonials
  • Embed views & clicks analytics
  • schema.org Review + AggregateRating for SEO

Sign up free, build your own collection link, then swap data-plauditly-widget="wgt_demo" for your widget’s public ID. Everything else stays the same.

Start freeSee Pro plans
The Wall№02

Real founders. Real praise. Real shipped.

Every card below is rendered by the same wall the product ships. The marketing site is the demo. If it loads fast and reads well here, it will on your site too.

№ 01
Style isolation actually works. We use weird CSS resets and the widget just renders correctly. No specificity wars.
Maya OkaforFrontend Lead · Pomelo
№ 02
I tested four of these on a Saturday. Plauditly was the only one whose embed didn't make me ashamed in DevTools.
Devon HillIndie hacker
№ 03
Approval workflow is the right amount of opinionated. Pending, then approved. No five-stage review committee.
Ben SullivanFounder · Routine
№ 04
Dropped the snippet into Framer at four in the afternoon and had thirty collected testimonials by Friday. The link itself is the entire feature.
Anya KowalskiMarketing · Beacon
№ 05
The schema markup gives us a star rating in Google results that competitors can't match without paying for it. Quiet, durable advantage.
Priya PatelGrowth · Cobalt
1/5 · Paper
In the wild№02a

See the wall on someone else's site.

Two fake-customer landing pages, two completely different visual languages, the same Plauditly wall pattern rendered inside each. Live — click any preview to open the full page in a new tab.

Brands fictional · testimonials illustrative · embed real

The Loop№03

Three steps. Twelve minutes.

01Step

Collect with a link

Spin up a project, share the URL with a happy user, and they fill a short form — name, role, company, rating, words.

02Step

Approve in a click

Pending submissions land in your dashboard. Edit typos, approve the good ones, hide the noise. No five-step workflow.

03Step

Embed with one snippet

Drop a script tag plus a div. Style it from a live preview. Done. The wall stays cached at the edge, never blocks your render.

Who it's for№04

Built for the people who ship landing pages.

Plauditly is opinionated on purpose. Four audiences it fits best — and a few it doesn't.

SaaS founders

Lift conversion on the page that pays the bills.

Drop a Wall of Love on your pricing page. Watch the signup rate move within a week.

Indie hackers

Look bigger than you are.

Fifteen real testimonials on your launch day land harder than a paid review can.

Course creators

Show outcomes, not just claims.

Rating + quote + role + company = the format every potential student wants before paying.

Agencies

One wall per client. Pro plan handles it.

Multi-project on Pro means each client site gets its own collection link, dashboard, and embed.

See all 10 use cases
Why bother№05

Built for the way SaaS actually ships.

Six choices we made differently. Each one is a thing a competitor either skips, charges extra for, or pretends doesn't matter.

Performance

Eleven kilobytes. Shadow DOM. Async.

Vanilla JavaScript loader. No React on your marketing page, no Tailwind colliding with your styles, no five-megabyte chunk in your bundle.

Rich results

schema.org JSON-LD — included.

Star ratings in Google search results. Competitors gate this behind their highest tier. We ship it on the first paid plan.

Drop-in everywhere

Next, React, Framer, Webflow, plain HTML.

If your site can load a script tag, it can render Plauditly. We test against the eight frameworks your stack is most likely built on.

Privacy on by default

Author emails never leave your account.

We collect emails for follow-up and verification, then strip them from every public response. Public widget JSON is a typed view.

Approval, not bureaucracy

Pending, then approved. That's the workflow.

No five-stage moderation queue. No tagging committee. Edit a typo, approve, ship. The model assumes you trust your taste.

Edge-cached, cache-busted

Fast for them. Cheap for you.

Public JSON sits behind a five-minute edge cache that busts on approval. Your database is quiet even when your customer's traffic isn't.

Drops in№06

If it loads a script tag, it renders Plauditly.

One copy-paste snippet. No framework adapter. No build step on your end. The embed is vanilla JS in a Shadow DOM — it can't break your styles and your styles can't break it.

Next.js
React
Vue
Svelte
Astro
Framer
Webflow
WordPress
Carrd
Plain HTML

For locked-down site builders, an iframe fallback ships with every widget.

Pricing№07

Honest tiers. No seat math.

One billing seat. No per-testimonial overage. No annual lock-in. Cancel from the customer portal in two clicks.

Plan

Free

For the first wall, the first link, the first proof.

$0per month
  • 15 testimonials, total
  • 1 Wall of Love widget
  • 1 project
  • Hosted collection page
  • “Powered by Plauditly” badge
Start free
Most signed up
Plan

Starter

When the wall starts pulling its own weight.

$19per month
  • Unlimited testimonials
  • 3 widgets per project
  • 5 projects
  • Up to 5 video testimonials per project
  • Light / Dark / System theme
  • schema.org rich results
  • Embed views & clicks analytics
  • Pin featured testimonials
  • CSV import
  • “Powered by Plauditly” badge stays
Choose Starter
Plan

Pro

Multi-product, multi-brand, multiplying outcomes.

$49per month
  • AI styling assistant — describe the look, get the CSS
  • Unlimited widgets
  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited video testimonials
  • Carousel layout with autoplay
  • Custom CSS + branding
  • Drag-and-drop reorder + Twitter/X imports
  • “Powered by Plauditly” badge removed
Choose Pro
Compare every feature

Stripe handles billing · cancel anytime in two clicks

Honest answers№08

Things people actually ask.

Is the free tier actually usable, or is it a trap?

Fifteen real testimonials, one Wall of Love widget, your own collection link, and a hosted form. The “Powered by Plauditly” badge shows on free; that's the only ask in exchange for keeping the tier free. We don't sunset accounts and we don't bait-and-switch limits — but legally we can't promise &quot;forever&quot;, so the Terms reserve the right to discontinue with notice (§6). Realistically: you'll know months in advance if that ever changes.

How fast is the embed?

About 11 KB gzipped, loaded async, no React, no build step. Tested on Lighthouse-optimized sites — score doesn't move.

Does it work with my stack?

If your site can load a <script> tag, yes. Next, React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Framer, Webflow, WordPress, plain HTML — all confirmed. Locked-down site builders get an iframe fallback.

Will Google show stars in search results?

Yes — schema.org Review + AggregateRating JSON-LD is emitted to the host page's <head>, outside the Shadow DOM, so crawlers see it. Included starting on Starter ($19/mo); competitors gate this behind their highest tier.

What about video testimonials?

Live on Starter (up to 5 per project) and Pro (unlimited). 5-minute / 50 MB hard cap per clip. We accept MP4 and WebM — iPhone .mov files use a codec (HEVC) that Chrome and Firefox can't decode, so we ask iPhone users to switch Camera → Formats → Most Compatible before recording. Direct browser upload from the collection form, no separate workflow.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes — Stripe Customer Portal, two clicks. No annual lock-in, no per-testimonial overage, no sales call to escape the contract.

№ 09 · Last page of the issue

Stop hoarding the praise. Print it.

Free for the first 15 testimonials. No card. The widget on your site ships in the same afternoon you sign up.

Start free