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Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by ckinnan »

icey wrote: post #7
edw519 wrote: post #5

Try it right now by clicking "Run Voltmeter" forces me to join. No thanks.

Well, they are trying to charge for the application. If they allowed anonymous use, who would ever pay for it? You don't have to give them your email address to try it out - you could easily make a throwaway username and password.

They could offer a free one time snapshot and then require registration/fees to see changes over time or to get recommendations or something.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by nkohari »

After the initial bait-and-switch annoyance, the app looks great, and it generated some very useful information. Now I need to look into improving my site's rating. :)

I'm definitely going to consider signing up for a pro account as you roll out additional features. I think if you fix that one minor UX problem this could be a very useful tool.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by alexsolo »

I noticed for my site that we are getting slightly different scores based on whether we submit pagerduty.com or www.pagerduty.com. We have it set up so that pagerduty.com does a 302 redirect to the www. The Voltmeter app should see both of these as a single domain.

The problems I have noticed:

* For pagerduty.com, the "Keyword Targeting" section shows: 1) moved, 2) permanently, 3) nginx. Looks like it does not follow the redirect.

* For the "Incoming Links" section, I get different results for pagerduty.com and for the www. Again, you should combine the 2 resultsets, as some people might link to the www and others to pagerduty.com.

* In the "Search Engine Index Inclusion" section, it says Pages Indexed by Bing: 68. We don't actually have 68 pages, so I don't see how this is possible.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by wmeredith »

edw519 wrote: post #5

Try it right now by clicking "Run Voltmeter" forces me to join. No thanks.

The feedback on this has been great. We'll figure something out so that it doesn't feel like a bait-and-switch. Maybe we'll change the button to say "log in and run report" or something for logged out users.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by wmeredith »

MicahWedemeyer wrote: post #18
bdmac97 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed that too but in their defense the signup was ridiculously painless. Only required a login and password. Email was optional. No confirmation required.

I agree that it's not too hard, but if I weren't an HN member I would have bounced at that point. I think having the search bar on the homepage is a great idea since it tells me exactly what to do right when I get there. Maybe put a URL in there explicitly (like http://www.mysite.com ) that auto-clears onfocus so it's ridiculously obvious. Some quick thoughts: * Provide a "top tip" that is the #1 thing someone should…

Awesome feature suggestions. Thanks. I really like the live/chat deal. The email a report feature is already on our list. For the time being you can just export it as CSV or PDF.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by wmeredith »

nkohari wrote: post #15

Sort of unrelated to the app, but your blog is very difficult to read on Windows. ClearType combined with the small size of Adobe Garamond Pro makes it very difficult to read. Maybe try a web-safe font like Georgia?

I went ahead and changed it all to the sans-serif. This was a point we were back and forth on anyway. Thanks for a push in the right direction.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by wmeredith »

thenduks wrote: post #23

Errored for me on my first try (just a simple 500 in an alert box, that's it)... So I tried a different URL and it yelled at me about upgrading to get 'more reports per day' -- I haven't even got one yet! :/

Ugh, sorry- that's a crap use-case. It's on the bug list.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by pubb »

wmeredith wrote: post #25
edw519 wrote: post #5

Try it right now by clicking "Run Voltmeter" forces me to join. No thanks.

The feedback on this has been great. We'll figure something out so that it doesn't feel like a bait-and-switch. Maybe we'll change the button to say "log in and run report" or something for logged out users.

One idea would be to give some preliminary/basic info for free so the customer "gets" something. Then a "login or create an account to see more".

I suppose the tricky part about doing that would be giving the customer something that they would value while leaving them compelled to want more.

Re: Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)

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Post by Lukeas14 »

I love the actual product and results, very clear and concise (although it'd be nice to allow users to probe for more information if they want). However, the process to get there was not as simple. I definitely almost bounced a few times. The homepage did not make it clear what the product was about in the first few seconds (for most users that's all the time you get. Maybe some screenshots would clear that up) The first thing the user should probably see on the sign up page is that an email address is NOT required (maybe not include it in that form but after the test is run allow the user to get weekly tests sent to this email which he then has to input). Overall, a very promising site that I would use again. As for the sign up funnel its nothing that website optimizer can't fix
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