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Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

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Post by old-gregg »

wensing wrote: post #26
old-gregg wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess so. One more little reason not to develop web applications using a proprietary overgrown and buggy ad banner creation tool.

What should a person use to develop graphically-intensive web applications, then?

Quake III is quite intensive and runs on all platforms. Figure out how it's made.

Not everything needs to be cramped into a browser frame, have an annoying login screen and eat 20% of CPU while sitting idle. Oh, did I mention the hidden benefit of being useful offline?

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#42

Post by auston »

Your startup idea is awesome!

A few things:

1. If you want to get more signups, make your homepage LOOK better.

2. If you could get the referral source of the user (and make it optional, cause I might want to use it on my webapp), you could get more of an idea of what that person wanted from your site (like if they got there by searching "how to write user interaction javascript", you would know their goal)

3. You need to charge for this!

4. I'll get more once I sign up and implement it on my site(s).

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#43

Post by pjf »

endtwist wrote: post #24

I hate to sound like wet blanket, but from my personal experience, browsing sessions by themselves aren't all that useful in learning about your users. Over the past few years, I've worked a lot with recording browsing sessions (I was the creator of Tapefailure, and now VisTrac.com, which is a work-in-progress). The main issue is that the sessions aren't focused (you don't know about the goal of the user) and watchin…

I think a great service would be a simple script which for each tracked URL tells statistically the average amount of time spent on each part of site while scrolling it down, and a probability distribution of cursor position on whole page.

For example, I wonder if PG wouldn't like to see what parts of his essays readers need to read/rethink twice :-)

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#44

Post by wensing »

old-gregg wrote: post #41
wensing wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What should a person use to develop graphically-intensive web applications, then?

Quake III is quite intensive and runs on all platforms. Figure out how it's made. Not everything needs to be cramped into a browser frame, have an annoying login screen and eat 20% of CPU while sitting idle. Oh, did I mention the hidden benefit of being useful offline?

I'm not really interested in deploying non-web apps at this point.

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#46

Post by catch23 »

cte wrote: post #35
andr wrote: post #20

I would have bought a subscription for this right away, as we were discussing rolling something like that on our own for a client. However, your pricing page being a "mailto" link put me off. Tell the price right away. Also, what are "advanced" events? 63KB is a little too heavy I'd say. Perhaps rewrite this so it doesn't use jQuery, or at least give me the option to skip it in the tracker js if I'm already using it…

We're still unsure of the cost to run this service as we scale up. We are looking for beta testers to try out our advanced features, so please email us, and we can get you a pro account for free, and start to iterate on the product to meet your specific needs (and lighter weight JS is definitely something we can fix for you).

we wrote something exactly like yours for corporate customers and although I love jQuery, we decided it was best to write it with just straight-up javascript. It was less code than I thought it would be considering how quick & dirty jQuery lets us do things.

Also, if you need to do something like the jQuery css selector style stuff, you might want to look at sizzle by jeresig. It clocks in at 4kb which isn't too big of an overhead.

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

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Post by s3graham »

huhtenberg wrote: post #19

Thanks for the heads up. This is VERY invasive in terms of online privacy expectations. Welcome to my AdBlock list. Very sleek implementation though. Perhaps you should consider licensing productized version of the same idea.

I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I don't see how adblocking this site gets you much. I'm sure many large sites get the same information in similar or other ways, but just don't happen to be outsourcing the gathering of that information.

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#48

Post by s3graham »

Neat.

Might be neat to try "merging" movies for a particular page. Perhaps it's not too easy because you're modifying one copy of the DOM though. It seems like it'd be useful to watch a whole bunch of users' interactions with a particular page at the same time, and then drill down to more closely examine a few who got confused, etc. I feel like it might get a bit tedious to watch a hundreds of versions of almost the same thing otherwise.

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#49

Post by sh1mmer »

This seems like it would pair really nicely with the Feedback Army site we saw recently. It might be interesting to incite Turkers to do virtual usability studies with this technology. Especially if you could give them a task to accomplish.

Re: Ask YC: Review my startup, Userfly

#50

Post by bigbang »

jtuyen wrote: post #8

Did you have a cold or something? I suggest you to clear out your nasal passages before demo'ing. Unless the sniffing sound is for effect ;) Overall, very nice work. Keep it up.

I think the video should be shorter and 40 seconds into the video, it was the same screenshot and it was an explanation. I would rather prefer to see some action in the video, than pay attention to the explanation :)
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