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Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by ebzlo »

kposehn wrote: post #30

Ok, so a lot of people are commenting you are charging too little and your general reply was you felt you didn't deliver the value to justify a higher price. In that case, I think you need to search for value. What can you do to make a higher price worthwhile? Here are my thoughts: - Analytics! What are people viewing? Plug it in and tell me what is working and getting mouse time or clicks (or conversions) - Split te…

Split testing sounds like a really neat idea! We'll talk about working that in later down the line. :)

Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by hendi_ »

therealarmen wrote: post #8

Cool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a…

Great idea! But 3$ is really way to cheap, even at the current 9$/month I'd just have signed up without thinking twice! Why? Because I know how much value a tour provides my app/my revenue!

I already have a simple tour in Bunker App but it is really a PITA so I've postponed doing improvements to it. I have hopes that your software helps me, and if it does, it's totally worth some money for me!

I've just signed up for your mailing list, I hope I'll get into beta to test it soon. My app is a JS-heavy, single HTML page app so I'm curious to see how Taurus works with my app.

Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by knes »

ebzlo wrote: post #40
knes wrote: post #36

what's the different with using Bootstrap tour ( https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour ) or Joyride ( http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-p... ) for example?

When we worked on a previous project, bootstrap was something we based our product tour off. Joyride, similarly, accomplishes the same deal with a little more fluff. However, there were a few things that were tedious. - Keeping track of who has seen what tooltip, when they should show up, backend type stuff. - When things moved around, layouts modified slightly, they were a pain to update. Granted it wasn't always th…

Thanks for the reply. You should put that on your website because from what I saw it wasn't really clear that there's a backend to manage my tours and to see some metrics.

Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by ebzlo »

knes wrote: post #43
ebzlo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When we worked on a previous project, bootstrap was something we based our product tour off. Joyride, similarly, accomplishes the same deal with a little more fluff. However, there were a few things that were tedious. - Keeping track of who has seen what tooltip, when they should show up, backend type stuff. - When things moved around, layouts modified slightly, they were a pain to update. Granted it wasn't always th…

Thanks for the reply. You should put that on your website because from what I saw it wasn't really clear that there's a backend to manage my tours and to see some metrics.

No problem! Will do. :)

Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by ebzlo »

davidtyleryork wrote: post #20

Looks like Kera.io, great project. I'd love to hear how you guys differ btw :)

This is pretty cool. We're less intensive than this, but we try to make the whole product tour setup very WYSIWYG. From what I saw, they do a neat job of delivery the full product-tour-package, but at the cost of engineering effort.

Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by ebzlo »

hendi_ wrote: post #42
therealarmen wrote: post #8

Cool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a…

Great idea! But 3$ is really way to cheap, even at the current 9$/month I'd just have signed up without thinking twice! Why? Because I know how much value a tour provides my app/my revenue! I already have a simple tour in Bunker App but it is really a PITA so I've postponed doing improvements to it. I have hopes that your software helps me, and if it does, it's totally worth some money for me! I've just signed up for…

We've given the popups the ability to trigger JS events and we will be adding the ability to trigger popups with JS events as well.

Could you send me an email (ebzlo@ebzlo.com)? I'd be more than happy to send you an invite immediately if we could work together on making this work for you, single page apps are definitely something we want to be viable for.

Edit: Bunker looks really cool. If I start freelancing again, I might just have to try it out. ;)

Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by [deleted] »

hendi_ wrote: post #42
therealarmen wrote: post #8

Cool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a…

Great idea! But 3$ is really way to cheap, even at the current 9$/month I'd just have signed up without thinking twice! Why? Because I know how much value a tour provides my app/my revenue! I already have a simple tour in Bunker App but it is really a PITA so I've postponed doing improvements to it. I have hopes that your software helps me, and if it does, it's totally worth some money for me! I've just signed up for…

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Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

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Post by hendi_ »

ebzlo wrote: post #46
hendi_ wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea! But 3$ is really way to cheap, even at the current 9$/month I'd just have signed up without thinking twice! Why? Because I know how much value a tour provides my app/my revenue! I already have a simple tour in Bunker App but it is really a PITA so I've postponed doing improvements to it. I have hopes that your software helps me, and if it does, it's totally worth some money for me! I've just signed up for…

We've given the popups the ability to trigger JS events and we will be adding the ability to trigger popups with JS events as well. Could you send me an email (ebzlo@ebzlo.com)? I'd be more than happy to send you an invite immediately if we could work together on making this work for you, single page apps are definitely something we want to be viable for. Edit: Bunker looks really cool. If I start freelancing again,…

Thank you for the nice words, I've just sent you an email :)
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