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excellent product, and excellent story! from the video introduction, the user interface seems to be a little antiquated, what are you using for the right click

excellent product, and excellent story! from the video introduction, the user interface seems to be a little antiquated, what are you using for the right click menu? it reminds me of solaris CDE menus :) how did you guys get started? the idea is really novel.

paraschopra 16y ago
I started programming a platform which had everything from segmentation to analytics to targeting and test. Here's that platform: http://www.wingify.com/labs.php http://www.wingify.com/labs.php I did a Show HN, had beta users and got feedback (notably including patio11) that I need to focus on one aspect and make it as easy as possible. So, I focussed on A/B testing (because existing popular Google's tool was not easy to use for non technical folks) and coded Visual Website Optimizer.
- patio11 16y ago
  Amazing that that was only a year and three months ago. It feels like forever. (Oh yeah, that was midway through the final deathmarch at work. That's why.) I just found my emails about Wingify/VWO to Paras and a friend of mine. Notably, I told Paras to raise the price (the proposed prices topped at the lowest price now) and told my SEO buddy that VWO was going to make millions.
  - paraschopra 16y ago
    Yep, I remember that you once mentioned that you would have loved to code VWO yourself and then make millions out of it. You can't imagine how powerful and motivating that was (and still is) to me. Also, Patrick, notably you dedicated a full post on your blog on VWO http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/09/bringing-ab-testing-to-the-fortune-5-million/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/09/bringing-ab-testing-to-t... and it brought bootload of beta testers. That was AMAZING! I iterated through every piece of feedback and refined it. It's hard to imagine VWO existing in form it exists today had you not helped initially. Thanks for all of this! I owe you a lot :)
    - patio11 16y ago
      Happy to have helped.
    - robeastham 16y ago
      A personal recommendation from Patrick or someone else as high profile here on HN must be like gold dust in the early stages. It's just the sort of recommendation and publicity that I'd love to get for my new startup when I launch the private beta soon. I've been playing about with a competitors A/B testing free trial but their site seems to be having problems today as I can't access my experiments. May be related to Google app engine I think. Anyway they don't provide heat maps like VWO and some other stuff and so VWO will definitely be next on my list to test drive. Thanks for the insight into the day in the life of a startup too.
      - patio11 16y ago
        As much as I treasure the image of sprinkling off magic startup pixie dust with every twitch of my shimmering wings, the hard-nosed metrics junkie in me notes that you can expect only a few hundred clickthroughs from the most popular links on my blog ever. Paras got a few more signups than that would suggest slightly because I banged down doors to give away VWO accounts to SEOs I knew but mostly because VWO is VWO's pixie dust: the product's quality and take on the space is disruptively better than what Google managed with infinite money.

paraschopra 16y ago

I started programming a platform which had everything from segmentation to analytics to targeting and test. Here's that platform: http://www.wingify.com/labs.php http://www.wingify.com/labs.php I did a Show HN, had beta users and got feedback (notably including patio11) that I need to focus on one aspect and make it as easy as possible. So, I focussed on A/B testing (because existing popular Google's tool was not easy to use for non technical folks) and coded Visual Website Optimizer.

patio11 16y ago
Amazing that that was only a year and three months ago. It feels like forever. (Oh yeah, that was midway through the final deathmarch at work. That's why.) I just found my emails about Wingify/VWO to Paras and a friend of mine. Notably, I told Paras to raise the price (the proposed prices topped at the lowest price now) and told my SEO buddy that VWO was going to make millions.
- paraschopra 16y ago
  Yep, I remember that you once mentioned that you would have loved to code VWO yourself and then make millions out of it. You can't imagine how powerful and motivating that was (and still is) to me. Also, Patrick, notably you dedicated a full post on your blog on VWO http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/09/bringing-ab-testing-to-the-fortune-5-million/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/09/bringing-ab-testing-to-t... and it brought bootload of beta testers. That was AMAZING! I iterated through every piece of feedback and refined it. It's hard to imagine VWO existing in form it exists today had you not helped initially. Thanks for all of this! I owe you a lot :)
  - patio11 16y ago
    Happy to have helped.
  - robeastham 16y ago
    A personal recommendation from Patrick or someone else as high profile here on HN must be like gold dust in the early stages. It's just the sort of recommendation and publicity that I'd love to get for my new startup when I launch the private beta soon. I've been playing about with a competitors A/B testing free trial but their site seems to be having problems today as I can't access my experiments. May be related to Google app engine I think. Anyway they don't provide heat maps like VWO and some other stuff and so VWO will definitely be next on my list to test drive. Thanks for the insight into the day in the life of a startup too.
    - patio11 16y ago
      As much as I treasure the image of sprinkling off magic startup pixie dust with every twitch of my shimmering wings, the hard-nosed metrics junkie in me notes that you can expect only a few hundred clickthroughs from the most popular links on my blog ever. Paras got a few more signups than that would suggest slightly because I banged down doors to give away VWO accounts to SEOs I knew but mostly because VWO is VWO's pixie dust: the product's quality and take on the space is disruptively better than what Google managed with infinite money.