This site brings Chrome to a standstill on my new-ish core i5 laptop and windows 7. The pop up tracking hides the close button and the escape key doesn't close it as I would expect a modal pop up to do. I am sure it was a fun exercise to do, but the user experience is not so good here.
How do they make money?
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Re: How do they make money?
#42Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
Either they've fixed it already or it must be resolution based.
I see the same problem on my MacBook Air :).
Re: How do they make money?
#43The UI seems hugely wasteful in terms of both screen real estate and user interaction. Why not a table with columns of checkboxes? Then we'd be able to sort and filter and count and compare. You could select a row and there could be a sidebar with lots more information about that company.
What's the point of the circle icon indicating the number of revenue categories? Until you look at a few it'd be easy to imagine it's a pie chart. All it indicates is a cardinality, so why not simply display a number? Except even that doesn't make sense because (a) we can already see at a glance how many revenue-bubbles are highlighted, and (b) how is that a meaningful number anyway?
I shouldn't have to click on the "x" to dismiss a popup info card. That's a small target, which slows me down when I want to click through a bunch of the "bottle caps". Clicking anywhere outside the card should dismiss it. This is a common idiom on the web. Better yet, clicking on any "bottle cap" should immediately pop up the "baseball card" for that company, without my having to first dismiss the previously shown "baseball card".
Re: How do they make money?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
the problem with amazon is that even though it is not a profitable component, it costs more in shopping on average than what the program costs, but they have found that the prime users purchase more on the program
There are also secondary benefits of Prime, they are shifting packages from ground residential, which is traditionally a low-margin business to 2nd-day air. I'd expect the increased leverage over their shippers when renegotiating rates is significant.
I wonder how much of their 2-day is actually sent 2-day? Several times I've hit the $4 for overnight and it still came ups ground. I'd imagine at least half of the products ordered are within 2 day ups ground from an amazon warehouse.
Re: How do they make money?
#45Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats ) what will we see there? 319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
Credit card fees are in the range of 2-3%, so that's potentially more than half leaving the bank from the start (or rather going to the bank :P).
Not sure if Kickstarter is charging extra to cover those fees, it's certainly against Visa/MC rules to do so.
Re: How do they make money?
#46Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.
Either they've fixed it already or it must be resolution based.
I see the same problem: In the third row, the "modal dialog" has its lower boundary aligned with the lower boundary of the third row. The top (containind the 'x' button) is then hidden behind the red banner at the top.
Guess: They display the "dialog" either with its lower boundary aligned to the row of icons you click, or with its upper boundary aligned to the row of icons you click (depending on which direction gives more vertical space for the dialag), but if the total vertical resolution is too small, part of the dialog may still be hidden.
Re: How do they make money?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually do not like mouse hover to popup but at least they should have made the background clickable to hide the popup.
I was pretty surprised that clicking the background didn't cancel it out, regardless of this bug (which also stopped me from using the site)
+1
Re: How do they make money?
#48How did this get voted so high?
Some of their source-links have no connection to the topic, and some of their facts seem wrong. Also, their site does not work very well, since some bubbles do not close when clicked on.
Re: How do they make money?
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Groupon isn't going to give its (recent) investors a return on what they put in, but they've always been profitable ; their overheads are tiny, and they take 50% of the revenue from each deal for themselves. I have no idea how Grooveshark ever made or plans to make any money (heck, when I worked at last.fm we were celebrating our most successful year ever in which we'd only lost $1m. 5/6 of our income had come from a…
I didn't know Kickstarter was a non-profit organization, I didn't find it on their website, would you mind pointing it to me? For Groupon, for me a profit is making more money than you spend and as you said they keep 50% of each deal but then they have to spend money to pay everything and also need a lot of advertisement. Therefore afaik they have no actual profit, which would mean returning money to the investors.
Kickstarter received Venture funding from USV (Fred Wilson et al). Since Non-profits don't generally have shareholders I would assume this means that Kickstarter is a For-profit corporation.
Re: How do they make money?
#50Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats ) what will we see there? 319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M. Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
Credit card fees are in the range of 2-3%, so that's potentially more than half leaving the bank from the start (or rather going to the bank :P). Not sure if Kickstarter is charging extra to cover those fees, it's certainly against Visa/MC rules to do so.
The 5% is separate from the payement fees, so the total is around 8%.
"Kickstarter collects a 5% fee from the project’s funding total if and only if a project is successfully funded. Amazon (our payments processor) also charges credit card processing fees that generally work out to 3-5%. "