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Just for clarification, we've of course been open to developers in the past, what's new here is that we've created a free developer's plan: http://www.directed

by wheels 17y ago

Just for clarification, we've of course been open to developers in the past, what's new here is that we've created a free developer's plan: http://www.directededge.com/signup-developer.html http://www.directededge.com/signup-developer.html And of course all of the stuff about Shopify integration, which we're really excited about: http://apps.shopify.com/shopify_applications/e7d74dd9b5d86c9cd9478738abf621bb http://apps.shopify.com/shopify_applications/e7d74dd9b5d86c9... More on that here (which I just posted separately, since that's mostly a separate story): http://blog.directededge.com/2010/01/06/directed-edge-shopify-easy/ http://blog.directededge.com/2010/01/06/directed-edge-shopif...

dualogy 17y ago
Really awesome stuff and I can't wait to start playing with it. Minor tiny bug report for that second link. Maybe it's just my Safari but where it says: "Price $9.00 USD per month* Website Directed Edge ExpressRex" -- the link is broken, it starts with http:// http:// 3x before the domain name.
- wheels 17y ago
  Grml, yeah, that's a Shopify bug that I already mentioned to them. Every time you edit the template it adds another http:// http:// in front of the URL, so they pile up if you forget to remove them with every edit. Just edited it again to remove that.
  - xal 17y ago
    Such a dumb bug, It's fixed now. Sorry about that.
    - hussong 17y ago
      No worries and thanks for the quick fix!
jacquesm 17y ago
There is no such thing as 'bad publicity', even when they're not 100% on the ball it's great that they are writing about you.
danielharan 17y ago
To signup for the Shopify app, it would cost minimum $9/mo for the app + $9/mo for the DirectedEdge account?
- wheels 17y ago
  Nope -- you don't need a separate Directed Edge account. It's a totally frictionless thing where all of the billing for the DE + Shopify stuff is handled on the Shopify side. It's our first experiment on a reseller model where the app has access to our admin API which can create accounts automatically.
  - danielharan 17y ago
    ok - I clicked around again, and see you have a different pricing page on Directed Edge. The Venture Beat article mentions increases of 20-30%, but this page talks of recommendations only, without personalization. What sales lift can we expect out of related products only?
    - wheels 17y ago
      How much you'll see just from related products varies significantly based on the type of products you've got and how much potential there is for selling additional products based on related products. i.e. if you've got a bunch of disjoint products, you're probably not going to see huge lift, but if you've got products that tend to compliment each other (and, of course the data we can infer that from), you'll see a decent bump. That said, we'd like to have personalization, from the line in our FAQ: We've been talking with the Shopify team about making personalized, e.g. Welcome back Bob, here are some things we think you'll like, possible. The Directed Edge recommendations engine supports that type of recommendations, though currently we don't have the ability to get the necessary data from Shopify stores. http://shopify.directededge.com/home/faq#personalized http://shopify.directededge.com/home/faq#personalized

by wheels 17y ago

dualogy 17y ago

Really awesome stuff and I can't wait to start playing with it. Minor tiny bug report for that second link. Maybe it's just my Safari but where it says: "Price $9.00 USD per month* Website Directed Edge ExpressRex" -- the link is broken, it starts with http:// http:// 3x before the domain name.

wheels 17y ago
Grml, yeah, that's a Shopify bug that I already mentioned to them. Every time you edit the template it adds another http:// http:// in front of the URL, so they pile up if you forget to remove them with every edit. Just edited it again to remove that.
- xal 17y ago
  Such a dumb bug, It's fixed now. Sorry about that.
  - hussong 17y ago
    No worries and thanks for the quick fix!

jacquesm 17y ago

There is no such thing as 'bad publicity', even when they're not 100% on the ball it's great that they are writing about you.

danielharan 17y ago

To signup for the Shopify app, it would cost minimum $9/mo for the app + $9/mo for the DirectedEdge account?

wheels 17y ago
Nope -- you don't need a separate Directed Edge account. It's a totally frictionless thing where all of the billing for the DE + Shopify stuff is handled on the Shopify side. It's our first experiment on a reseller model where the app has access to our admin API which can create accounts automatically.
- danielharan 17y ago
  ok - I clicked around again, and see you have a different pricing page on Directed Edge. The Venture Beat article mentions increases of 20-30%, but this page talks of recommendations only, without personalization. What sales lift can we expect out of related products only?
  - wheels 17y ago
    How much you'll see just from related products varies significantly based on the type of products you've got and how much potential there is for selling additional products based on related products. i.e. if you've got a bunch of disjoint products, you're probably not going to see huge lift, but if you've got products that tend to compliment each other (and, of course the data we can infer that from), you'll see a decent bump. That said, we'd like to have personalization, from the line in our FAQ: We've been talking with the Shopify team about making personalized, e.g. Welcome back Bob, here are some things we think you'll like, possible. The Directed Edge recommendations engine supports that type of recommendations, though currently we don't have the ability to get the necessary data from Shopify stores. http://shopify.directededge.com/home/faq#personalized http://shopify.directededge.com/home/faq#personalized