I would recommend for BromBone to simply say first thing on your site that you provide a service to get screenshots of a web page. Could eliminate most of the rest of detailed explanation about headless browsers. Never even heard that term.
Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
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Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like I mentioned earlier, it probably does not need to be high on your agenda. However, to answer your question why would someone cancel... because the button is there and we users are stupid. Open up a private browsing instance and go through the workflow. You'll probably end up here[1]. Did you change something in the last hour? I thought I was getting a message from dailycred not from you when I checked before I w…
It isn't stupid to click the cancel button. That cancel button is actually what cause a few brief periods of unavailability a couple hours ago. When a user clicked the cancel button it was taking them to the account page even though they didn't have an account, and that was crashing the server. I have fixed the crash, but I still need to add the proper redirects after cancel is click. Thanks for reporting this. It ma…
Actually, in hindsight it was my action that crashed your server unless someone else clicked cancel as well. Sorry about that. I'm glad you were able to track and patch it quickly.
Maybe HN is a bug reporting tool as well. :)
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#83> Beta accounts are absolutly free and have the same privileges as the Baltus Plan. either typo or ingeniously relevant reference to beverage
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#84Oh, I can outdo you! Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO. But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that…
MixMax, as in the cakes? You wonderful human being. Those cakes rock my world.
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#85My advice: stop advertising PhantomJS and let me sign up for your service. Why did I have to scroll down 80% of the page to get to a sign up button? And nothing on your page convinced me that I should.
I am in your target market - I build websites for a living, and I hate testing in multiple browsers. Convince me, in one sentence, why this is a good idea, and give me the option of doing something about it.
Good luck.
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#86Heya,
Do you plan to license this for self-hosting? If you do, I think you might be surprised at the enterprise buyin on this sort of thing. I can immediately think of $confidential projects that could use this.
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Joel, what are you using for your cohort analysis? An internally-built tool? A third-party service?
Would be an interesting third party tool. Does anyone do this already? Something as simple as receiving a list of usernames over time.
MixPanel can do this and they have a free plan.
I custom-built my own cohort reports but as number of users grow in my own app, I'm planning to replace it with MixPanel. You don't really want to put stress on your own database servers which are meant for production, not for analysis.
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#88Heya, Do you plan to license this for self-hosting? If you do, I think you might be surprised at the enterprise buyin on this sort of thing. I can immediately think of $confidential projects that could use this.
If someone were interesting in self-hosting, I would talk to them.
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't stupid to click the cancel button. That cancel button is actually what cause a few brief periods of unavailability a couple hours ago. When a user clicked the cancel button it was taking them to the account page even though they didn't have an account, and that was crashing the server. I have fixed the crash, but I still need to add the proper redirects after cancel is click. Thanks for reporting this. It ma…
Actually, in hindsight it was my action that crashed your server unless someone else clicked cancel as well. Sorry about that. I'm glad you were able to track and patch it quickly. Maybe HN is a bug reporting tool as well. :)
It happened more than once.
Re: Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
#90I was just wondering if you were planning to integrate CasperJS too, which is an awesome addition onto PhantomJS. If not, it'd be interesting to have access to an online PhantomJS REPL.