Let Your Personality Shine in Your Product
A couple of years ago, the folks at startup accelerator Y Combinator put on a series of lectures called "How to Start a Startup" at Stanford University.
My favorite lecture was lecture 7, "How to Build Products Users Love", which was presented by Kevin Hale, Founder of online form company Wufoo and now Partner at YC.
There is a TON of great information about user onboarding, customer support, and much more.
But the enduring theme that I took out of the lecture was how to incorporate your personality into your product to make it something that your users love to use.
With Wufoo, they did things like include interesting microcopy, like having "RARRR!" pop up when you hover over the dinosaur login button:

Another example was from one of Wufoo's customers who included some hilarious microcopy in their sign-up form:

Every time you open Slack, they'll have an amusing message waiting for you to start your day:

Of course, you need to build a product that provides value to the user, is fast, doesn't crash all the time, has solid design, and has all of the other baseline things that a good product should have.
But these little user experience details count a lot, and incorporating your personality into your product wherever possible can delight users and keep them coming back. It can build trust, put a smile on users' faces, and make them feel loved.
While product designs will differ, many products that do similar things tend to feel the same. There are many online form tools like Wufoo that get the job done. But the microcopy and other details that reflect the company's personality can be the difference in winning or losing that customer.
Have you encountered a product where you saw the company's personality shine through? I'd love to hear your thoughts!