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I used this product a while back to do some scraping of a very annoying (and slow!) to navigate website and it was a life-saver. Still using the google sheets i

I used this product a while back to do some scraping of a very annoying (and slow!) to navigate website and it was a life-saver. Still using the google sheets it helped me generate. I saw the value of this tool straight away and the UI was pretty reasonable, just a few quirks. I would definitely use Axiom again if I ran into a similar need. Best of luck to your team. My one suggestion: Let people touch the UI and get a handle for building in a sandbox page on your site--a web app that simulates the app over your own site's dom, for example? I was hesitant to start my trial because 1) risk of hostile chrome extensions 2) wasn't confident I could learn the tool quickly enough. I think if you had a sandbox demonstrator on your site that let people experience the tool, you could learn a lot about where early users stall out and also build confidence toward sign-ups.

yaseer 6y ago
Wow, that's awesome! What you've described is literally our cloud product - we give people a sandbox with a virtual browser to use and get started (like browserstack). We're working out a way to scale it cheaply, so anyone can get started. Right now, it's a paid feature. I'm very glad the feature we have planned is something customers would appreciate though, at least we won't have built something nobody wants. We made that mistake in the past...
- ordinaryradical 6y ago
  Sounds like you’re on the right track. I personally think codeless tools like these are all about confidence-building. I’m just technical enough to know what Puppeteer is and know how long it would take me to learn it. If I see that I can learn your tool right on your site/play around with it without having to sign up, my conviction goes way up.
- pimlottc 6y ago
  The cloud feature sounds like a nice product, but I think ordinaryradial was suggesting something else (or if he wasn't, I am): a toy app on your own pages that also has the automation scripts "pre-injected". It would be limited to just running on that sample app but would let people try it out immediately in their own browser without needing to install an extension or use a full-blown virtual browser.
  - yaseer 6y ago
    Ah yes, I get the gist - I didn't explain the rationale well! Creating that toy environment on a single page would result in us engineering something totally new, just for demo purposes. It's easier to just virtualise everything like browserstack. That way, we don't make anything new, we just virtualise what we've already built, and you can try it, instantly. It's the same result, but in one case, we spend on engineering, but in the other, we spend on hosting.
    - pimlottc 6y ago
      That’s certainly fair - you’ve got to build out the cloud offering anyway. Makes sense, even if the toy idea is in some ways simpler from a technology point of view; dev resources aren’t free.

yaseer 6y ago

Wow, that's awesome! What you've described is literally our cloud product - we give people a sandbox with a virtual browser to use and get started (like browserstack). We're working out a way to scale it cheaply, so anyone can get started. Right now, it's a paid feature. I'm very glad the feature we have planned is something customers would appreciate though, at least we won't have built something nobody wants. We made that mistake in the past...

ordinaryradical 6y ago
Sounds like you’re on the right track. I personally think codeless tools like these are all about confidence-building. I’m just technical enough to know what Puppeteer is and know how long it would take me to learn it. If I see that I can learn your tool right on your site/play around with it without having to sign up, my conviction goes way up.
pimlottc 6y ago
The cloud feature sounds like a nice product, but I think ordinaryradial was suggesting something else (or if he wasn't, I am): a toy app on your own pages that also has the automation scripts "pre-injected". It would be limited to just running on that sample app but would let people try it out immediately in their own browser without needing to install an extension or use a full-blown virtual browser.
- yaseer 6y ago
  Ah yes, I get the gist - I didn't explain the rationale well! Creating that toy environment on a single page would result in us engineering something totally new, just for demo purposes. It's easier to just virtualise everything like browserstack. That way, we don't make anything new, we just virtualise what we've already built, and you can try it, instantly. It's the same result, but in one case, we spend on engineering, but in the other, we spend on hosting.
  - pimlottc 6y ago
    That’s certainly fair - you’ve got to build out the cloud offering anyway. Makes sense, even if the toy idea is in some ways simpler from a technology point of view; dev resources aren’t free.