[Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Hey everyone! Along with my launch of Megaphone, I'm launching something new. Cheers! Cheers are a way for teams/companies/individuals in the robotics community to spread their messages.


A Cheer will be sent to anyone signed up to receive notifications for a robot at an event. (Example: If I sign up to get notifications for 2337, and 2337 is attending the Kettering District, I'll get a text message with the Cheers purchased for the Kettering District) Cheers will be strictly robotics (FRC) related, and will be sent out ~9 AM on Fri/Sat/Sun (the two days the events run). If a Cheer is bought that is not robotics related or isn't suitable to send out, I'll contact the purchaser and see if the message can be changed to something more suitable to the audience. If the Cheer is not changed, I'll refund the purchase and the Cheer will not go out.

An example of a few good Cheers is below





Cheers are my way of providing the FRC community with something useful, while keeping the lights on for Megaphone. Revenue generated by Cheers will go to paying for server costs, domain name costs, ssl certificate costs, and offsetting the cost of the text messages. Any additional revenue will go in to doing a round of some high quality stickers.

Enjoy Cheers!

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Great creative way to support your work. Thanks!

Any options to pay with Pay Pal in the future?

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

No plans to support PayPal. Interfacing with PayPal is more of a hassle than it's worth. Sorry!

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

No problem, just checking. Scheduled our first Cheer for this weekend!

Thanks again for an easy and fun way to support your support for FRC.

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Mt. Olive has been Cheered by MidKnight Mayhem! This is a really great feature. Thanks for letting us support Megaphone this way. :)

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Zach, this is really awesome! I noticed you split out the days for events this week, definitely a better way to do it, IMO.

For those of us sending cheers, is there any way to get statistics on how many people the cheer went to?

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Soon hopefully. I added in a confirmation email when Cheers get sent this week. The next step is to start letting people know how many people received their Cheer. Hopefully that'll get shipped for Week 3.

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

What about those of us in Michigan? =(

I don't see any Michigan events.

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Most likely they have all been purchased. Event disappear from the list when someone has bought the Cheers

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

Yep. That's the case. Both the Michigan events were bought earlier in the week by The Robot Space.

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

This is a really creative way to financially support Megaphone. Well done!

When you say 9am, is that local time to the event, or local to you in MI?

Re: [Cheers] Spread Your Message with Cheers!
 

9 AM wherever the event is at. So Michigan event Cheers go out at 9 AM EST, while California event Cheers go out at 12 PM EST (9 AM PST)