The Latest as a Beamer alternative
In-app announcement widgets put your updates in front of people who are already signed in. This page is about the other half: a page those updates live on.
They solve different problems
A notification widget is built for the moment someone is using your product. The Latest is built for the page underneath it — dated posts, newest first, on a public URL that people can find in search and that you can link from a support reply six months later.
The two are not exclusive. The Latest ships its own one-line embed, so the same posts can appear on your marketing site or inside your app without anything being copied twice.
When a standalone announcement page is the better fit
- You want updates readable without signing in — by prospects, by search, by people on a phone
- You want RSS and an open way to pull the posts out, not just one thing to paste in
- A dismissed popup is not enough: you need somewhere the update still exists tomorrow
What The Latest does
| What you need | The Latest |
|---|---|
| Publish an update | Write, hit publish — the page and the feed update immediately |
| A public page for your updates | your-name.thelatest.page — a public page search engines can read |
| Let readers subscribe | RSS feed on every page, no setup |
| Show the latest posts on your own site | One line to paste. It can’t disturb the design around it |
| Pull your updates into something else | A public API to pull from, no export request needed |
| Keep visitors untracked | No cookies, nothing following your readers |
| Cost | Free to start (20 latest posts), $8 a month for Pro |
This table describes our side only. Features and pricing elsewhere change often, so check directly before you decide.
Trying it out
Write one post, paste the embed line into any page you already have, and see how it looks in place. Free to start, no credit card.