Its creepy. Creepy enough to never come back. I did that once and i am pretty sure the user never came back.
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#12In most cases creepy, creepy enough to probably leave a site and never come back, especially if it is things like payment details or a service where I store data (so basically, nearly everything that is complex enough to make this service "useful")
Re: Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for?
#13If a "Stuggling with X?" window came up on bottom right hand corner I might not be as creeped out if I thought it was just help
Re: Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for?
#141. If users are NOT aware of being tracked, it is HELL creepy 2. Scalability is now not an issue :) I think your concern should be to find the first customer. 3. not sure 4. I think they would, but you need to make sure users are not creeped out by it. 5. Unsure. You might want to try both ways. Start marketing a specific use-case and see what happens (if it works, etc..).
By the way, what I meant with scalability is that if you have up to say 10-15 users at a time you can keep track of them easily, if it's more you either need more people or the whole monitoring station becomes worthless
Agree but you could still easily gather events and metrics, which once aggregated would provide BI insights. Managers do love this kind of things