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Hi everyone, This is our new startup and we would love to hear what you think about it. We are trying to make it super-easy to create a tour for your website -

Hi everyone, This is our new startup and we would love to hear what you think about it. We are trying to make it super-easy to create a tour for your website -- you can literally create a tour in under a minute. We also show important statistics about your tour so that you can see how your users interact with it and improve it. (Statistics page will be launched very soon.) So, what do you think?

webbruce 15y ago
I would definitely take off the sticky menu bar. I like the concept though.
- SeckinJohn 15y ago
  You mean the "Quick Website Tour" button, right? While creating a tour, after clicking the save button, you can customize it to remove that button and launch it by calling a JS function(Drawer.start_tutorial()). Or you can also customize it to automatically launch on page load.
chrisacky 15y ago
It seems to be quite effortless at creating them, so well done on achieving the "super-easy"-ness.. Some things which would be helpful and the information I couldn't find despite looking. 1) This comment applies to everything that I use, so it's not just relevant to your product. While free now, how do you plan to monetize. This is important for prospective users because time invested in your application could be wasted if you don't have an end goal in mind and end up discontinuing the product and making it unavailable for use. I think it's important for users to know that you are getting "something", to avoid a gowalla situation where you sign up 1000s of users and then can't convert. So basically... I think that you should provide some insight into how you plan to charge. ie. Flat rate of X per month or something. 2) What's the page overhead. ie, While super easy, is it all loaded AMD style and super lightweight. What dependencies do you have. ie jQuery. 3) As a suggestion, you shouldn't just "encrypt" your JS source for this. I've just "decrypted" in about 15 seconds. Since everything you are doing is basically just JavaScript, you should consider implementing something like Typekit/Optimizely for how they serve up their JS files. If you don't want to go through this route, which would be perfectly understandable, then you should at least build your javascript, using something like closure or shrinksafe. But what you did by wrapping it in eval() is as good as useless and pointless. (EDIT, actually I can see you have shrinksafed it. I didn't actually look passed your CSS styles). Overall, It works well, quite impressive.
- SeckinJohn 15y ago
  I am glad you liked it. 1) Yeah this makes a lot of sense. We are planning to charge $0, $5, $20, $99 per month depending on the number of impressions your tutorial gets and the amount of support you need. We might also sell the library on its own for a one-time fee. (this will probably be without analytics though).
jspaur 15y ago
I'm unable to see this working in IE9. Works fine in Firefox and Chrome. Bummer, but IE9 makes up about 25% of the visits on my site, so no go yet.
- SeckinJohn 15y ago
  Could you please give some more details about your system and what exactly happens when you try to launch the tour? We just checked again and it seems to be working on our IE9.

webbruce 15y ago

I would definitely take off the sticky menu bar. I like the concept though.

SeckinJohn 15y ago
You mean the "Quick Website Tour" button, right? While creating a tour, after clicking the save button, you can customize it to remove that button and launch it by calling a JS function(Drawer.start_tutorial()). Or you can also customize it to automatically launch on page load.

chrisacky 15y ago

It seems to be quite effortless at creating them, so well done on achieving the "super-easy"-ness.. Some things which would be helpful and the information I couldn't find despite looking. 1) This comment applies to everything that I use, so it's not just relevant to your product. While free now, how do you plan to monetize. This is important for prospective users because time invested in your application could be wasted if you don't have an end goal in mind and end up discontinuing the product and making it unavailable for use. I think it's important for users to know that you are getting "something", to avoid a gowalla situation where you sign up 1000s of users and then can't convert. So basically... I think that you should provide some insight into how you plan to charge. ie. Flat rate of X per month or something. 2) What's the page overhead. ie, While super easy, is it all loaded AMD style and super lightweight. What dependencies do you have. ie jQuery. 3) As a suggestion, you shouldn't just "encrypt" your JS source for this. I've just "decrypted" in about 15 seconds. Since everything you are doing is basically just JavaScript, you should consider implementing something like Typekit/Optimizely for how they serve up their JS files. If you don't want to go through this route, which would be perfectly understandable, then you should at least build your javascript, using something like closure or shrinksafe. But what you did by wrapping it in eval() is as good as useless and pointless. (EDIT, actually I can see you have shrinksafed it. I didn't actually look passed your CSS styles). Overall, It works well, quite impressive.

SeckinJohn 15y ago
I am glad you liked it. 1) Yeah this makes a lot of sense. We are planning to charge $0, $5, $20, $99 per month depending on the number of impressions your tutorial gets and the amount of support you need. We might also sell the library on its own for a one-time fee. (this will probably be without analytics though).

jspaur 15y ago

I'm unable to see this working in IE9. Works fine in Firefox and Chrome. Bummer, but IE9 makes up about 25% of the visits on my site, so no go yet.

SeckinJohn 15y ago
Could you please give some more details about your system and what exactly happens when you try to launch the tour? We just checked again and it seems to be working on our IE9.