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Optimizely (YC W10) brings data-driven Web design to the masses
- nhangen 15y agoI'm a happy paying user. Really dig the site. A few ideas for UI enhancements, but I think this is a great and easy way to quickly test site changes without having to dig into the code or Google Analytics, which makes the process incredibly difficult.
- dsiroker 15y agoHi Nathan, glad you dig our site! We're honored to have you as a paying customer. If you have any UI suggestions for the product we'd be glad to hear them. You can email us directly at hello@optimizely.com
- IanMikutel 15y agoLove what Optimizely is doing, keep up the great works guys! I think the A/B testing market is one that'll keep growing for a long time, and tools that make it easier to do will be the catalyst.
- dsiroker 15y agoThanks Ian! Are you interested in joining us? We are actively hiring: http://jobs.optimizely.com/ http://jobs.optimizely.com/
- drndown2007 15y agoNothing against Optimizely (I'll go see what it is after I post), but man I'm getting tired of the cutsey -ly names. This is one fad I wish would fade away.
- Zakuzaa 15y agoWhat's wrong with -ly names?
- bartonfink 15y agoThey do remind me of Ned Flanders - "okely dokely doo!" just a bit. I doubt that's a widespread association but it's what jumps in my mind first.
- jbenz 15y agoWe got a call from http://hiconversion.co/ http://hiconversion.co/ recently. They wanted to sell us on their conversion optimizer software. Their site talks a lot about "Real Time ROI" and "IT-Free Use", but no where on the site do they actually describe what they do. I emailed the rep this question and he basically wouldn't tell us. He would only say "I can explain it with a demo." We were curious to see how it worked, so we said yes. Then we had to schedule a time, call up GoToMeeting, enter the passcode, and listen to a 30 minute presentation. He was a nice enough guy, but my god, all HiConversion had to do was exactly what Optimizely did: put a 4 minute video on their homepage (which I am seeing for the first time today). The WYSIWYG editing in both systems is pretty similar. The main difference is that I got a quick and easy understanding after four minutes on Optimizely's site. P.S. The price is significantly better at Optimizely. 30 Day Free Trial and $400/month vs $3,000/month. We'll check out that free trial version at least.
- dsiroker 15y agoThanks, glad you like the demo video! The inspiration for Optimizely came out of similar frustrations when I was the Director of Analytics during the Obama campaign. We went through a long drawn-out sales process with Omniture Test & Target when all we really wanted was a short demo of the product. Hopefully we've done a good job of building a product that is easy to use and understand so we can avoid doing a 30 minute presentation to explain how it works. We're building the product I WISH we had back during the campaign. We're actually thinking of putting together a series of short videos showcasing different features of the product similar to how Splunk does this: http://www.splunk.com/videos http://www.splunk.com/videos Is this something you'd be interested in?