Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects
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Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects
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#2Hey Guys! Congratulations on the launch.
I have a question, if you dont mind. I'm someone, who's been trying to build out simple SAAS business myself and wanted to understand the impact of using price arbitrage as a sales strategy. (which in Castor's case is dramatically underpriced compared to geckoboard and others.)
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#3What makes this different/better from the million of similar products or is this some kind of YC company ?
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#4Hey Guys! Congratulations on the launch. I have a question, if you dont mind. I'm someone, who's been trying to build out simple SAAS business myself and wanted to understand the impact of using price arbitrage as a sales strategy. (which in Castor's case is dramatically underpriced compared to geckoboard and others.)
Just my experience with SaaS, usually they start with ridiculously low price to capture the market. After you have established yourself, you can increase your price and grandfather early customers. You can even force your free users to upgrade to a paid plan by stating that ("upgrade now to lock old price! limited time only!").
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#5Was I the only one who found that website really annoying? Everything animated, chat popping up when I didn't want it.
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#6As an aside, I noticed the above-the-fold design is very similar to [ElementFE](http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US). What's up with that? Did this particular design with the slanted line originate somewhere else or are they the same people perhaps?
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#7Was I the only one who found that website really annoying? Everything animated, chat popping up when I didn't want it.
No you're not. Personally I find it really annoying. I hope this is a fad, along with the photos showing through "holes" as you scroll down a page.
At least this is a landingpage and not a long form article, but even as a landing page I feel it is distracting.
Why can't people just make really good design like you'd have in print, on a relatively static page. I guess it's the medium that calls for it. Hey, we have Javascript and CSS3 oh my! Let's do something cool!
edit: it's one of those things that looks cool, and is ok in moderation. But when it's used too much it's just distracting. It calls my attention, but not for the right reasons. It stops me from being in my own flow and reading the page the way I want to read it.
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#8>If you need more than one dashboard or want to send data directly from you're app or server [...]
s/you're/your
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#9This looks nice! Can anyone recommend an opensource/self-hosted alternative? Would really like to set something like this up in the office but would prefer to host it on my internal network. Plus I like to tinker with things :)
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#10As an aside, I noticed the above-the-fold design is very similar to [ElementFE]( http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US ). What's up with that? Did this particular design with the slanted line originate somewhere else or are they the same people perhaps?
I've seen this style on a few different sites. I think it's just a design fad, not something that was copied from the site you mentioned specifically.