Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
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Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#2How did people know to use your app during the halftime show?
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#3How did people know to use your app during the halftime show?
Our test was just 'friends and family,' and a small but growing beta testers mailing list. See the right of the page if you want to join.
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#4"Heartbyte can push poll questions to the audience at any time in the broadcast." This should be the first sentence on the page.
No idea why I should care about how many users there are when I have no idea what the product is.
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#5"Heartbyte can push poll questions to the audience at any time in the broadcast." This should be the first sentence on the page. No idea why I should care about how many users there are when I have no idea what the product is.
Well, to be fair, should every company blog post start with an introduction about what they do? It would get pretty tiresome if I was a regular reader.
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#6"Heartbyte can push poll questions to the audience at any time in the broadcast." This should be the first sentence on the page. No idea why I should care about how many users there are when I have no idea what the product is.
The blog post also doesn't link back to the product page.
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#7It seems interesting. I'd be interested to see what your user interface looks like.
I have the following comments/questions:
1) I'm pretty sure I've seen this kind of technology before on CNN, ie. real-time polling. Have you researched to see if there are any patents on the things that you've implemented?
2) Is there a large enough market for these services to sustain an actual business?
3) with respect to your %, do you account for people that started off giving real-time feedback, and then quit because it was too tedious? Do you still include them in your % even though they don't respond, or do you just assume that they haven't changed their opinion? In fact, how do you differentiate between people who don't change their opinion, and people that quit updating your app, or does that matter to the marketing research people?
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#8"Heartbyte can push poll questions to the audience at any time in the broadcast." This should be the first sentence on the page. No idea why I should care about how many users there are when I have no idea what the product is.
While the post was meant as a follow-up for the people helping us test, you are right that we're not clear about the product. Our homepage http://heartbyte.com gives you a sense of how the audience votes during the event with their mobile devices. Also, a link was added to post :)
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#9Does anyone have any traffic numbers for what you could expect from a Super Bowl ad? 10K/min? 200k/min? 500k/min?
Re: Our startup tested during the Halftime Show. What does HN think?
#10How did people know to use your app during the halftime show?
Our test was just 'friends and family,' and a small but growing beta testers mailing list. See the right of the page if you want to join.
I would try to use a large sample group, you can't get an accurate view of group with such a same sample size.
Otherwise it seems really interesting, I remember seeing this type of thing before, there is probably a market for it in smaller news organizations.