I signed up to be notified. But... Please include a quick summary of the app in the notification mail to make us remember what it was, when the time comes.
Will do. :)
Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
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Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
#52Looks cool. I think I would find it more useful if I could see a demo (not of the authoring, but of the result).
Thanks! If you create some tooltips on the page and refresh the page, you kind of get a feel of what it would be like for a visitor (though "Hide" won't permanently hide the tooltips in that state).
Yeah, but before I get to trying out your features I want to experience it as a user would.
I would recommend creating another page for this user experience, calling it the 'demo', and changing the current demo page to a 'try it now' page.
Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
#53Cool 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…
Thanks! The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.
You are not your customers!
If is irrelevant what you would pay or how much value you would get from the service. If a good tour helps to retain just one subscription customer a month, that easily justifies x10 the $3 price.
Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
#54Looks 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.
Cameron from Kera here. You're right about you guys being wysiwyg and I think that's awesome. It's super important and I think you're on to something!
Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I meant cheapest. Also, I saw your comment above about once you are out of beta. I wouldn't wait. Set it at $9 or above and see what happens. The longer you leave it at $3, the more expensive it will look when you raise it (and I really think you should raise it).
Alright. Done. I'm setting at $9. Updated now.
I don't know what these people are talking about... Call me crazy but when I saw that I had to pay for this at all I thought "Hmm, couldn't I implement that quickly myself?". Perhaps I could or couldn't, but it seems to me that it would be better served as a one time purchase. I wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee for any other premade component (lightbox, image carousel, etc).
I'm guessing there's some service associated with this, but from the tour it wasn't obvious. I'm not attacking your product, but want to give my experience/thoughts.
Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alright. Done. I'm setting at $9. Updated now.
I don't know what these people are talking about... Call me crazy but when I saw that I had to pay for this at all I thought "Hmm, couldn't I implement that quickly myself?". Perhaps I could or couldn't, but it seems to me that it would be better served as a one time purchase. I wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee for any other premade component (lightbox, image carousel, etc). I'm guessing there's some service associ…
Sure thing. The problem we're attempting to address is not necessarily the HTML/CSS/Javascript component of creating a tooltip, but rather the creation of a system and its continued maintenance.
When we hand rolled our own product tour code for a previous project, what we quickly learned was that maintenance was a nightmare. As soon as layouts updated or changed, editing the tooltips we had created already was tedious.
We, however, have plans for other features that we think could really add a lot more value. So if you don't see it now, perhaps later on when we roll them out.
Re: Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alright. Done. I'm setting at $9. Updated now.
I don't know what these people are talking about... Call me crazy but when I saw that I had to pay for this at all I thought "Hmm, couldn't I implement that quickly myself?". Perhaps I could or couldn't, but it seems to me that it would be better served as a one time purchase. I wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee for any other premade component (lightbox, image carousel, etc). I'm guessing there's some service associ…
I agree. My first impression when I saw this was : Tooltip for 3$/mth ? Anyone who's capable to do good web design can do it themselves in 30 minutes max. Maintenance ? I personally don't think 5 minute CSS adjustments worth monthly pay. If you want to charge for that make obvious to customers what backend service you would charge for.