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Woobius Eye, HN user swombat's product, featured on Lifehacker
- swombat 17y agoThanks, bemmu! I'll be sure to write a blog post some time soon about how we got TC coverage (about a year ago) and now Lifehacker coverage. It's all pretty serendipitous, but could be an interesting/useful story.
- rrhyne 17y agoCongrats swombat! One of my apps was just featured on Lifehacker as well. The post hit at 11:30am and total uniques for the day were 3,500 the first day and 1,800 the second. I thought they would be a bit higher than that. It would be interesting to compare numbers...
- sreitshamer 17y agoInteresting. I got almost that many from Arq being on the HN front page the other day! But maybe that's because many HN readers are in the target market (online backup to S3 for the Mac).
- swombat 17y agoI think it depends on the article... my "How to Nap" article which was republished there got 76k hits so far... this one clearly won't get as many, but we've already had about 20 beta sign-ups since the article went up.
- rrhyne 17y agoThose are amazing numbers. What kind of post was it? Was it featured with a large image, or the small thumbnail? Mine was a small thumbnail and was pushed quite a few down the list quickly. Of my 3,500 visits the first day I converted over 20% though, so I can't complain!
- bemmu 17y agoThat's an amazing ratio, what do you count as conversion?
- rrhyne 17y agoUser signups. Unfortunately signups are free. LOL. But I'm working on the paid conversions.
- swombat 17y agoClearing the confusion - the "How to nap" article got 76'000 hits on LifeHacker - not 76'000 click-throughs. It was featured in the rotation at the top of the site (and I think that ended up on Gizmodo too). There weren't all that many click-throughs, but that wasn't the point for that one.
- rapind 17y agoLooks pretty cool. Gratz man.
- rlivsey 17y agoWe got similar uniques on MinuteBase when that was featured - 4,000 visits on the first day and 2,000 for the next 2 days until it dropped off the front page.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoThat is one of the best demo videos I've ever seen. The background music was sweeeeeet. Congratulations!
- swombat 17y agoFYI, the music is by someone called Kevin MacLeod. He publishes Royalty Free music here: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
- BoppreH 17y agoIt seems the writings were sped up or the users were using tablets. It sure seems a neat program, but I doubt I'd ever use it to write anything. Maybe for using during a call, for example?
- swombat 17y agoThat's a very typical use case, actually. If you're on a phone or Skype call and you catch yourself saying stuff like "You see that link on the page, third one from the right at the top? Yes, the blue one, not the magenta one. Can we move it to right beneath the bit of text next to the picture of a monkey?" try firing up Woobius Eye instead. You'll then be able to just say "Can we move this link here?" Much more efficient conversation, and allows multiple sides to join in easily.
- jagtesh 17y ago@swombat Nice video :) Very interesting. I personally feel the user experience can be improved more by using draggable vectors for the onscreen drawing. Anti-aliasing would be big bonus too.
- swombat 17y agoThanks. @bobleung put together the video. What do you mean by anti-aliasing, in this context? Re: draggable vectors, you mean allowing people to drag their scribbles around?
- jagtesh 17y agoYes. By AA, I mean smooth edges of the drawings. Pretty much like how Flash does it (or any other vector composing tool). Although not essential, it's a nice feature to have. Just my 2 cents :)
- kuhfes 17y agoWould be great to be able to make the drawing area full screen and/or resize it. Great app. Fast, simple, effective.
- swombat 17y agoThat feature is on the way.