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Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may want to include a link to the "how it works" section from http://trendly.com/preview/ . When I went to the site, I clicked "try it now" before I read to the bottom of the page, and once I got there, I didn't want to sign in. Maybe say something like "Not ready yet? See how it works" or something like that.

Agreed. Will do.

Done.

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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looks good from the screenshots! Have tried to approximate this with visualization etc but that never worked well enough. have submitted my analytics. Waiting for the result. What about pricing when out of beta ?

Thanks.. you should be getting your results pretty quick (longer if you have a high-traffic site). Pricing is still an open question. We're talking about $5/month intro pricing for now, but presumably it will eventually be based on the traffic volume of the site/amount of data we're processing.

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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So here's the thing: I'm not going to give you my Google Analytics until you show me a compelling reason to. "We track Google Analytics" doesn't mean anything to me, an intrigued audience, yet skeptical of and resistant to just installing shit willy-nilly. Install it on the company blog or something.

Agree; I'd rather see it in action on a dummy/demo site first.

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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It appears I'm more trusting of my Analytics data than most (could be because my site garners little traffic). The copy on the front page was clear enough for me to warrant a trial, and I felt that I knew what to expect from the very beginning.

I found the sign in process quick and painless--sign into Gmail, agree to grant access, and now sit anxiously awaiting my email of data. The "how it works" section that I was shown directly afterwards was also very clear. As I read the content and followed along with the screenshots, it all just made perfect sense. All in all, great job!

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Your homepage is really confusing to me. The first thing I find is a logo which is a link... to the page I'm on. That's useless and confusing. Next the "Try Trendly Now" bar, which looks more like some kind of horizontal-rule style header than it does a link. Then there's a tiny "How it works" link that sorta looks like a header too, considering there is a paragraph of text below it (which is the same size as the link, and it's just some "about" copy!)

You should make better use of modifiers which produce contrast and a hierarchy of importance, such as text size and color. I imagine this isn't your final homepage, but having it start off more intuitive couldn't hurt :)

Re: Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB

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Any chance of getting a demo like Dabble's? I assume you did this one in Seaside as well? Every time I see a project you've done it makes me want to fire up a Smalltalk image and try it out again.

This project has nontrivial pieces written in Squeak, Java, Ruby, and Javascript. The site has a dash of PHP.

Care to share the rationale behind those choices? Sounds interesting.
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