Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers

Hi HN, We have built ExitIntent to help reduce bounce rates and convert exiting visitors to leads. We have tried to make it very simple for anyone to run popup campaigns on their sites. Would love to get the feedback of the community.

Once I click "Try It Out" I can't easily get back to the page I was on before -- both the logo and "home" link to a login page.

This seems similar to bounceexchange[0], and I think the idea is generally good. Try to grab people's attention at the last minute when they're already planning on leaving your website anyway. Last-ditch effort that can't really upset too much, especially since you already lost them.

Of course it depends on how spammy those popups end-up being, but at least from a couple of sites that I've seen and who use bounce exchange, they do seem to get pretty spammy-looking in my opinion.

What I wonder the most is who would actually pay for this. The 'exit intent technology' as dubbed by bounceexchange can be easily done with a couple of lines of javascript. Perhaps it won't be as sophisticated, but it would achieve very similar effect. We ended up borrowing a small snippet from an open-source project[1] that does this and it's looking fine so far. All it does it checks if the mouse y-coordinates is below a certain threshold and then triggers the modal.

Perhaps the popups themselves and having them pre-designed or having a WYSIWYG editor and integrated without any coding would be a selling point here? (not being sarcastic, genuinely curious about the potential customer base for this).

[0] http://bounceexchange.com/ [1] https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce

Maybe I'm not "most users", but that would immediately kill any interest I had in a site I was browsing. The way I view it is, my attention is something I bestow upon a website, it's not something you have a right to grab without my permission like this.

On a more constructive note, how do you intend to deal with false positives among users that have multiple displays? If I were interested and wanted to share the link, by moving my mouse to the address bar it would trigger this popup.

Thanks a lot for your feedback. As of now it does trigger on moving your mouse towards to the address bar, we would fix this soon.