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Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your website
- marktangotango 9y agoA service that relies on google analytics to function? History indicates this approach can be problematic ie what could go wrong? Edit apparently the same ring that’s up voting this and promoting it are also down voting everyone else? Great!
- duncan-donuts 9y agoThis is fun! Reminds me of the visit counter everyone had back in the 90s.
- freeelncer 9y agoSame nostalgic feelings here. Only this time you’re the only one that gets to see it. Its fun when launching a new project and wanting to celebrate every visitor that you gain.
- duncan-donuts 9y agoYeah, totally! I'd love to throw it on my blog so I can see when I actually get _a single user_ (and then hear the crushing blow as they leave)
- flexie 9y agoWhy would you want to be disturbed every few seconds? It's bad enough with interruptions from emails, chats, skype, calls, messages, coworkers walking in etc. This might actually have the potential to kill your remaining few productive spells.
- karimf 9y agoI guess when you've spent weeks developing an interesting project, it's so satisfying to see when it gains tractions, even just one visitor. Then you turn the chirps off later when things get better.
- anonytrary 9y agoAuditory feedback can be useful in certain circumstances.
- nickjj 9y agoHearing a "cha ching" sound is really gratifying if you sell a product. That's probably why cash registers make that noise.
- digi_owl 9y agoAll manner of non-visual feedback is highly undervalued these days for some reason.
- anonytrary 9y agoI feel that web users have made it very taboo to use auditory feedback.
- michaelmcmillan 9y agoNothing is like the dopamine rush you get when a customer checks out a product you have launced.
- duiker101 9y agoWhy would you want to have fun at all? Fun really takes away time from all the productivity I could do. Apart from that. Personally I keep a tab with real time because I like to look if there is a surge of users(I mostly have max 5 concurrent users) because it might mean someone mentioned the site somewhere so I like to go and maybe try to participate in the conversation.
- fiatjaf 9y agoI don't like the fact that you silently assume everybody has Google Analytics installed on their site. You don't even consider telling people that they need that.
- oh_sigh 9y agoStep 2 begins with "Open Google Analytics"
- amelius 9y agoYes, so let's assume the reader isn't aware they have to integrate GA (or perhaps they don't even know what it's for). 1. They perform step 1, ok. 2. They open GA (what for? well let's just open it) 3. Click the bookmark, ok. 4. Strange, nothing seems to happen. 5. Fiddle a bit. Maybe it's my website, let's restart the server. 6. Reaction, eventually: this sucks.
- geekamongus 9y ago> (or perhaps they don't even know what it's for) Then they are not likely going to need this service in the first place.
- lemagedurage 9y agoSeems far fetched. I bet the amount of people who - own a site - are unaware of GA - execute step 1 without reading 2 ... and... - know how to restart their server ... is exactly 0.
- Doctor_Fegg 9y agoLet's put this in a more positive way. This is great! Have you considered adding a Piwik-compatible option?
- fiatjaf 9y agoPiwik? I don't want a Piwik-compatible option. I'm not even complaining about Google Analytics, I'm just saying it doesn't sound well to just tell people to open Google Analytics. I would complain the same way if a website promised a guide to calculate interest rates and started the article with "Open Excel...". Adding a "For this to work you'll need Google Analytics installed in your site" notice would solve everything.
- digi_owl 9y agoI find myself thinking about JWZs diary from the Netscape days, where on launch day someone in the office had rigged up a script that played a cannon shot whenever a download completed successfully.
- pixelHD 9y agoI'd love to use this if it works with Piwik.
- rhuehn 9y agoI spun up a pageview notifier just for fun by creating a webtask to ping a service on my home automation system. This enables the usual stuff - real time UI, audio alerts, webpush notifications, history, etc. The webtask keeps the HA connection secrets but also works on static sites. On the HA side, the custom service pulses a binary sensor device created from {title, pathname}. https://github.com/theatersoft/test-device/blob/master/webtask/index.js https://github.com/theatersoft/test-device/blob/master/webta...
- simonhamp 9y agoThis looks cool. The title of this post is a little (scary) ambiguous - ‘see’ and ‘hear’ people who visit your site!? Glad it’s not what I thought :D Will give it a go soon!
- CM30 9y agoNeat concept, though I do wonder whether you'd go nuts if your site turned out to be extremely popular. I can imagine the sound being something like a machine gun firing if you tried this on say, Hacker News. Still, seems like it could be fun to play around with none the less.
- greenleafjacob 9y agoI believe Netscape or Mozilla did this - every download triggered a sound, and release day was like a machine gun of downloads.
- CM30 9y agohttps://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html Apparently it was a cannon sound; damn, that must have been loud as hell on release day.
- PrimHelios 9y agoApparently that site redirects to a picture of a testicle [0]when the link is clicked from HN, seems the author of that blog hates HN. Figured I'd give a warning that it's NSFW for anybody at work [0] (NSFW): https://i.imgur.com/32R3qLv.png https://i.imgur.com/32R3qLv.png
- MuffinFlavored 9y agowhy would somebody hate HN?
- cesarb 9y agoThis reminds me of the classic "network auralizer" (http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html).