I'm so excited to announce our newest feature: Instant Custom Apps. Instant Custom Apps allows you to create a custom branded app for your business instantly, using nothing but your natural language. These custom apps live on your own domain, and take advantage of the custom subdomain you've already set up to host your widgets on your website. Instant Custom Apps put your schedule, payments, account management, on demand video and AI powered chat search all in the hands of your students for quick, immediate access to everything your studio offers.
Instant Custom App is available today for all our customers on every plan.
How it works
The first thing you do when you create your Instant Custom App is decide whether you want a background image, or more of a code-designed background. For both, we've integrated with OpenAI's API's: Dall-E2 for images and GPT4 for CSS code. Image backgrounds are great for complex imagery, while code only backgrounds work great for things like gradients and animations. We’ve used both of them during our testing to make hundreds of beautiful versions.
Once you've generated your background it's time to perfect your landing page. Customize the title, footer menu and icons to your liking and you're all set.
Next, it's time to detail the internal pages. This will update colors for the schedule, payment form, etc. You can get pretty detailed on this page, customizing both the header and footer, icon colors, primary and secondary font colors and link colors, and you can control the opacity for all three of the background, header and footer. This allows you to make full use of all the different imagery the AI may provide you with.
The combination of all these elements allows you to create an app for your students that's uniquely you and your business. And, which you can easily and quickly change as often and as quickly as you like.
Oh and don’t forget to upload your logo! That’s what we’ll render on your student’s home screens when they save your app to their home-screens.
Years of effort, coming together today.
It's been over a year since we announced our departure from app stores, instead favoring the open web. While we didn't know exactly how things would play out, the commitment I made - to myself as much as our customers to be totally open - is that ultimately we would come out with something not just sufficient, but competitively better. We believe we have achieved that with this update.
In an instant you can create, customize and publish an app that lives on your domain, works on every device and which can be updated constantly. We have written about how app store business models are outdated in a hybrid world, and how they break the hybrid opportunity independent operators in the industry have, by fracturing their schedules and their passes.Our
Tula customers are able to provide thier customers with a unified schedule, passes that give access all types of classes, a full on demand library and AI powered search chat - making years worth of videos instantly available.
Thank you to our customers!
There are businesses on our platform who have been customers for over ten years. Every day, we work hard to bring you the best the internet has to offer, so you can bring your customers the best that you offer.
This is our best work, and we couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you.