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Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

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This has been bothering me a lot. I'm a founder of a start-up that's just launched and currently in the 'throwing spaghetti against the wall' phase of acquiring users. The Mixpanel/GA setup I've got is good at product analytics, but tracking exactly where they come from would be an enormous help.

Anyway, signed up (which was super easy btw) and here's hoping for some good conversion analytics.

Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

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GDPR differentiates between cookies and localStorage? I'm skeptical, but if so that's… a really surprising loophole.

It doesn't differentiate. GDPR is about identities and using them for non-essential purposes. It doesn't take a stance on the technologies in use. According to our lawyer GDPR law texts doesn't contain the word "cookie" anywhere. Storing a user identifying random id to any permanent storage (cookie, localStorage, etag, Flash, you name it...) goes against GDPR.

Got it — the difference between Volument’s localStorage and GA’s cookie is the “identifying” aspect of the latter.

Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

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Hey! Cool product! I have run many A/B tests in my career, and agree that it really does take ages to get statistically relevant results, and most results don't really pan out at scale. (Though in my experience, a new button color might drive conversion just by catching the user's eye as something new, but this doesn't stick around). How do you get A/B test results faster? New math? Or just more BS? ;)

The secret is on Volument's ability to measure a bunch of "leading indicators", like the ratio of first-time visitors who stayed on the website more than 7 seconds (which indicates a better first impression). For every key conversion event at the bottom of the funnel (such as "signed up"), there are thousands of leading indicators to take insights from. By utilizing these top-of-the-funnel metrics you'll know whether…

That sounds a lot like multiple comparisons type I error as a service.

Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

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post #6

Founder here (1). Here's a backstory: We launched the MVP two years ago with this HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116 Market demand was there but the product wasn't ready for the load yet. Fast forward two years and now it's all "perfect". The product is now useful — even for people using goaccess or similar. The main reasons include: 1. Understanding of traction and how visitors behave before they…

Just wanted to say that is an exceptionally well-written launch post.

- Solid summary

- Novel solution (omg AIDA in a CRO tool!)

- Clear benefits spelled out vs the competition

- Relatable use cases

- Jumping off points to explore the rest of the product

The product of years spent thinking about the problem I guess! Good stuff :D

Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

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post #6

Founder here (1). Here's a backstory: We launched the MVP two years ago with this HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116 Market demand was there but the product wasn't ready for the load yet. Fast forward two years and now it's all "perfect". The product is now useful — even for people using goaccess or similar. The main reasons include: 1. Understanding of traction and how visitors behave before they…

Just wanted to say that is an exceptionally well-written launch post. - Solid summary - Novel solution (omg AIDA in a CRO tool!) - Clear benefits spelled out vs the competition - Relatable use cases - Jumping off points to explore the rest of the product The product of years spent thinking about the problem I guess! Good stuff :D

Luke — this just made my day, Thank you! In fact, this eases a lot of the angst from all the sleepless nights fearing of not getting any recognition.

Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The secret is on Volument's ability to measure a bunch of "leading indicators", like the ratio of first-time visitors who stayed on the website more than 7 seconds (which indicates a better first impression). For every key conversion event at the bottom of the funnel (such as "signed up"), there are thousands of leading indicators to take insights from. By utilizing these top-of-the-funnel metrics you'll know whether…

That sounds a lot like multiple comparisons type I error as a service.

Can you elaborate this, please? An example would be best.

Re: Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

#30

UI is awesome, i can't figure out what framework you are using or you are doing everything by yourself?

Thanks! Glad you like it. I'm the original author of Riot (https://riot.js.org/) so that's the style of frontend development I'm most comfortable with. We're using our own flavour of the library, which has the original super-mimimalistic feel on it.
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