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Re: Ask HN: Review my new A/B testing and analytics startup

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Post by dflock »

oni0n56 wrote: post #17
mmelin wrote: post #9

I like how your support options progress from "Online" to "CEO's iPhone" :) I'd like to read more about how it works, maybe see an integration guide, but it seems you only have the one (beautiful) page right now?

Thanks. Yes it is only one page right now. I had originally planned a whole site with different sections and pages but it seemed a bit wasteful since the current integration guide is: • have jquery on your site • add a line of code linking to your JS file But behind the scenes how it works is that JS file (ie. usecharm.com/mmelin.js or something) returns different code depending on the cookie of the visitor and the c…

Yes. Currently it looks great, but nowhere does it actually explain what it does - in specific technical terms.

Re: Ask HN: Review my new A/B testing and analytics startup

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Post by oni0n56 »

thenduks wrote: post #19

Looks very nice, design-wise -- unfortunately I can't actually try it out because I'm not willing to put your javascript directly on my production site without experimenting first. I get that your app needs access to do it's thing, so I'm not sure how you'd fix this... but it's a real stopper for me.

Well you could install it on a development site or something first. You can't currently add in a domain that's not live (since it verifies its existence by pinging)— but contact me and I can add it in manually and you could try running it locally or on a private site.

Re: Ask HN: Review my new A/B testing and analytics startup

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Post by oni0n56 »

jeffmould wrote: post #4

Looks great! Congrats on your launch. A few things that stick out for me: 1. I like the free option, and would most likely start there to get a feel for everything. But...if I wanted to start with a premium plan instead, there is not enough information on the website to tell me how this product is different (besides look/feel) from products such as Google Optimizer, Google Analytics, or Optimizely. Sell me on the ben…

Thanks! I think I just fixed #2, I am guessing it was a Chrome/Win bug with rounded corners. Though I can't see it myself.. is the problem still there?

Re: Ask HN: Review my new A/B testing and analytics startup

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Post by thenduks »

oni0n56 wrote: post #22
thenduks wrote: post #19

Looks very nice, design-wise -- unfortunately I can't actually try it out because I'm not willing to put your javascript directly on my production site without experimenting first. I get that your app needs access to do it's thing, so I'm not sure how you'd fix this... but it's a real stopper for me.

Well you could install it on a development site or something first. You can't currently add in a domain that's not live (since it verifies its existence by pinging)— but contact me and I can add it in manually and you could try running it locally or on a private site.

Yea the ping-ing thing is what stopped me. I need to test it as un-live as it gets, on my local development instance, before I start pitching this stuff to my boss.

I'll shoot you an email. Thanks. edit: Or, I would, but you don't seem to have it listed in your profile.

Re: Ask HN: Review my new A/B testing and analytics startup

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Post by SupremumLimit »

I like the landing page and the screenshots look nice, but I would appreciate an explanation of how A/B testing works from the technical standpoint. How do I set up a test? What if multiple pages are involved? Will returning users get the same page consistently?

It's definitely an interesting service though, and I'll be happy to pay for it if it saves me time compared to setting up my own A/B testing framework.

Re: Ask HN: Review my new A/B testing and analytics startup

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Post by oni0n56 »

aonic wrote: post #26

Love the user interface screenshots. What did you use for the graphs? Custom library?

It's pretty much all CSS-based at this point. Javascript is used for tiny things like the centering of the confidence intervals.

We were looking into some of the canvas libraries out there but that really only becomes necessary when doing pie-charts and other non-rectangular shapes.

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