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Ask HN: Review my app HelloBar.com

#1
We just released Hello Bar in private beta. http://www.hellobar.com

We wanted to create a fun, unobtrusive, yet highly visible bar that engages users to take action on your site.

It's purposely MVP right now. I'd love to get your feedback on the site.

-What other features would you like to see?

-What do you think of the interaction/UI design?

-Would you use this for your site? If not, why not?

Use the beta key "hn" to create an account. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Review my app HelloBar.com

#8
The site itself is very attractive. A suggestion for the implementation, though: login/signup tab full page turns are jarring (especially with the bar dropping down again after each loads)...maybe just use JavaScript/CSS to swap div visibility?

In general it looks like it's a nice library, but how about some more information before the required registration? Why do I want to use this over a freely available JS library? Does it cost money? Etc.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app HelloBar.com

#9
Probably needs a bit more functionality and an actual problem to solve.

I've also previously used that space for notification bars that hover over where your product would go (for errors, successful actions, etc.) So your product wouldn't fit on my site because that real estate is taken.

The main thing is finding something useful for this. This isn't a solution to anything, its just a piece of javascript. IMO having one of those floating around gets in the way of my user's experience.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app HelloBar.com

#10
The app is well executed, looks create and has a good UI (well, except for the alert box when you update your profile).

However, I agree it is a little to MVP. To be useful I need more control over what is displayed in the bar ... and I probably want to host all the scripts on my own server too.

I want to be able to set the content in the Javascript code that instantiates the bar so the message is relevant to a user action.

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