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This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would l

This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would like the ability to inject an icon that a user clicks in order to get a pop-up help message. The intent of this is to write custom user help to inject into incomprehensible Enterprise application user interfaces. I could get by with highlighting text of course, but I think it would be more attractive to have an icon as highlights all over the place would be a bit ugly. Thoughts? (You, or anyone who know a way to accomplish this?) Also, are you paid or free, and what are the odds of this still being a product 5 years from now?

mgirkins 4y ago
Great news. I have been thinking of various ways to make the paid plan more attractive to people and was looking at interactive elements like tooltips and buttons as a potential differentiator. How much would you be willing to pay to add tooltips and buttons for your use case? The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Thanks for your feedback.
- mistermann 4y ago
  > The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Well, that's kinda the bad thing...I'd gladly pay $5/month or whatever because I use this crap software every day, but trying to sell this to clients (what's this, this multi-million software we just bought now also needs an extra $5/user to get actually useful context-sensitive help!!!??) would be "a bad look". Alternatively, perhaps my employer could buy a perpetual license per client or something and bundle it in, except they give 0 shits about customer satisfaction (it is the norm in the industry). Realistically, someone who had the slightest clue about javascript (not me!) could probably figure out how to write a few lines of javascript to inject all this according to a single configuration file somewhere, but in the meantime (likely forever) I'd love to find some tool that can do it.

mgirkins 4y ago

Great news. I have been thinking of various ways to make the paid plan more attractive to people and was looking at interactive elements like tooltips and buttons as a potential differentiator. How much would you be willing to pay to add tooltips and buttons for your use case? The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Thanks for your feedback.

mistermann 4y ago
> The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Well, that's kinda the bad thing...I'd gladly pay $5/month or whatever because I use this crap software every day, but trying to sell this to clients (what's this, this multi-million software we just bought now also needs an extra $5/user to get actually useful context-sensitive help!!!??) would be "a bad look". Alternatively, perhaps my employer could buy a perpetual license per client or something and bundle it in, except they give 0 shits about customer satisfaction (it is the norm in the industry). Realistically, someone who had the slightest clue about javascript (not me!) could probably figure out how to write a few lines of javascript to inject all this according to a single configuration file somewhere, but in the meantime (likely forever) I'd love to find some tool that can do it.