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Life Path : $10 for an invite.
- dcurtis 16y agoHa. Funny that this showed up here. But, after all, it was a hack-ish experiment... So far, 24 invitations have been purchased. Which is amazing, considering that I just put the form up there as an experiment (and a joke) to test a new client-side javascript payments thingy. Turns out, apparently, that people are willing to pay for things!
- 101north 16y agoKudos! Looks like sometimes you just gotta ask.
- fookyong 16y agoif you want to test willingness to pay you should try to recreate real conditions as much as possible to get usable test results. You would probably get a much better response if: 1) the page had SSL 2) you show what cards you accept (i.e. logos) 3) you require the buyer's name (sounds suspicious to not require it) 4) you show a paypal button as an alternative option* It sounds like you're just doing an MVC for payments to see if people would pay. If you're pleased with the MVC conversion rate now, I bet you'd be ecstatic if you implemented the above. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 5~10% uptick in conversion. *anecdotally speaking, I would have totally clicked through if you had a paypal button.
- pclark 16y agodo you think #1, #2 and #3 would really make a difference? I would have thought most users (including me) when it comes to payment are simply thinking "blah blah blah take my money"
- fookyong 16y agoI don't think, I know :) Worked in ecommerce, handled millions of credit card transactions, tested extensively.
- dcurtis 16y agoRegarding 1, it actually does post the payment over HTTPS via javascript directly to the payment processor from your browser. I wasn't really trying to do a controlled experiment, otherwise I would have done the other things you describe.
- fookyong 16y agodcurtis > yeah I figured the ajax post operation would be over HTTPS, but still - a user would want to see the little padlock sign on the browser regardless :) the illusion of security is just as important as actual security!
- basheer 16y agoI'm not sure if I'm in the minority or not (probably) but my philosophy behind paying for one of the invites isn't so much that I felt like I was getting an "honest to goodness" $10 worth of product or direct benefit out of it. I paid the money because I really like your work, I loved the visual style you had going and how smooth it seemed to be, and I figured if I could help in someway to keep you being able to be doing what you're doing and making more awesome things, then it's worth it: a more tangible "like" button or a concrete confirmation that you're doing something right. It's the same reason why I'm a subscriber to Marco's fantastic Instapaper.
- Griever 16y agoAmazing page transitions! They ran perfectly on Chrome Dev.
- jawartak 16y agoMemolane : $0 for an invite.
- ajpatel 16y agoLoL what IS this thing?
- willstrimling 16y agohttp://lifepath.me/will http://lifepath.me/will here's mine, if you want to see an example.
- auston 16y agoPlease, give me an invite!
- ajpatel 16y agoThanks...some of the comments on here had me thinking people were being duped into paying for invites that didn't get them into anything... This is kinda cool...
- stevenray 16y agoWill you're going to need to do something to avoid those heart attacks!
- gexla 16y agoWill, you haven't accomplished much in life other than speak your first sentence, hit puberty and apparently make comments on Hacker News. I'm hopeful now that I see you have the rest of your life planned out for you though. About that heart attack, there is plenty of time for us to find a cure for that. You might want to add that to your timeline.
- ScottWhigham 16y agoYou might want to provide a non-javascript page/text for those hitting the home page. I went to it and it's pretty much a blank page. I'm not willing to enable javascript for a site I don't know a single thing about.