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Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes
- Kmanicka 14y agoNeat tool.
- ebzlo 14y agoThanks!
- vineet 14y agoLooks cool. I think I would find it more useful if I could see a demo (not of the authoring, but of the result).
- ebzlo 14y agoThanks! If you create some tooltips on the page and refresh the page, you kind of get a feel of what it would be like for a visitor (though "Hide" won't permanently hide the tooltips in that state).
- hsuresh 14y agoThis is not evident from your demo. Can you include the tooltips to show up by default in your demo page? I am guessing most people would first want to see how the tooltips come up, before they get interested in editing/authoring them.
- vineet 14y agoYeah, but before I get to trying out your features I want to experience it as a user would. I would recommend creating another page for this user experience, calling it the 'demo', and changing the current demo page to a 'try it now' page.
- rchiba 14y agoThis would certainly be useful for a lot of the other Show HN's. Can't wait to see this in production.
- donebizkit 14y agoIt's not working for me. It just says [object Object] Firefox 16.0.1 on MAC OS X
- ebzlo 14y agoAh shoot. Haven't heavily tested outside of Chrome. I'll check it out, thanks! Edit: Fixed the issue. Looks like just a small problem with the bookmarklet. Pushing it up now. :)
- donebizkit 14y agoI see the admin panel now. I'll keep playing with it.
- therealarmen 14y agoCool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a month. At that price point you'd need 1,000 customers just to be ramen profitable!
- ebzlo 14y agoThanks! The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.
- sgdesign 14y agoInstead of asking yourselves "what's the minimum amount someone would pay?", you should be asking "what's the maximum?". I'm really cheap, and even I find $3/month ridiculous. It should at least be $9/month, and you should find a way to have multiple plans (say, $9, $29, $59).
- mikhaill 14y agoI'll second @therealarmen point and agree with @sgdesign. You priced the product based on real value and not perceived value, which represents how much customers feel a product is worth and is willing to pay for it. If I have a web app, I sit and suffer as I look at my low conversion rate, low engagement and high amount of tickets coming to the support desk with annoyingly simple questions. All these items take up my time and effort, which cost money. If your product means five less support e-mails, three more users that do not cancel because they understand how to use my app and ten more conversions a month, that right there is worth much more than $3 a month and I'd would be willing to pay for it.
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- CT100 14y agoI think the product is pretty cool. I also really like the design of the site.
- ebzlo 14y agoThanks!
- TheMakeA 14y agoThis looks pretty sweet. Good job.
- jordanthoms 14y agoKeen to get this setup, we need a product tour but didn't have a good way of building it quickly.
- ebzlo 14y agoSend me an email, I'll be sure something comes your way when we launch. ebzlo@ebzlo.com
- nedwin 14y agoBeautiful site. Have seen a few of these on HN but your implementation looks the best so far. We need this - looking forward to launch.
- ebzlo 14y agoThanks for the kind words. :)
- davidtyleryork 14y agoLooks like Kera.io, great project. I'd love to hear how you guys differ btw :)
- ebzlo 14y agoThis is pretty cool. We're less intensive than this, but we try to make the whole product tour setup very WYSIWYG. From what I saw, they do a neat job of delivery the full product-tour-package, but at the cost of engineering effort.
- camwest 14y agoCameron from Kera here. You're right about you guys being wysiwyg and I think that's awesome. It's super important and I think you're on to something!
- eranation 14y agoFeature request that will make this much more valuable - relative adjustment, if you can create a tooltip that will stay near a selector (regardless of browser resizes) and will be responsive (e.g. size and font will adapt based on size) then you'll have something worth not 3$ but 30$ a month easily. I like that you demo the usage of the tool rather than the end result, but for some people it might be too cumbersome, at least make the demo login automatic By the way, a solution to both issues - use your own product to tour your own product.
- ebzlo 14y agoThis was originally in our plan for beta launch, but we yanked it to get something out faster. It's definitely in the pipeline. :)
- kposehn 14y agoOk, so a lot of people are commenting you are charging too little and your general reply was you felt you didn't deliver the value to justify a higher price. In that case, I think you need to search for value. What can you do to make a higher price worthwhile? Here are my thoughts: - Analytics! What are people viewing? Plug it in and tell me what is working and getting mouse time or clicks (or conversions) - Split testing! I'd love to test out two tours to see which converts better. You could make the current version free, to a certain point of traffic and make all the new features points of value to charge a better price.
- ebzlo 14y agoSplit testing sounds like a really neat idea! We'll talk about working that in later down the line. :)
- Jarshwah 14y agoLooks really great, congratulations. A few things I picked up on though: 1. Couldn't toggle Absolute/Relative after I had placed a tooltip. 2. If you position your tooltip then click the "Display Next Button", the arrow moves, but the positioning stays the same (with a side arrow). Just a UI bug. 3. Instructions on the syntax to use for javascript event field. 4. Binding to an element would be nice. 5. Having the "Next" button move on to the next tooltip, hiding the old, and displaying the next. I think I'd like to use that flow rather than seeing all the tips at once.
- ebzlo 14y agoThanks! We'll look into those issues; additionally, we'll be adding a bind to element feature in the future.
- knes 14y agowhat's the different with using Bootstrap tour ( https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour ) or Joyride ( http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-plugin http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-p... ) for example?
- ebzlo 14y agoWhen we worked on a previous project, bootstrap was something we based our product tour off. Joyride, similarly, accomplishes the same deal with a little more fluff. However, there were a few things that were tedious. - Keeping track of who has seen what tooltip, when they should show up, backend type stuff. - When things moved around, layouts modified slightly, they were a pain to update. Granted it wasn't always the case, but it was enough that we decided we ought to build a front end to handle it. And thus, Taurus was born. We realized that while engineering the product tour isn't hard, it takes time to make and maintain, and that we could help solve that.
- gokhan 14y agoI signed up to be notified. But... Please include a quick summary of the app in the notification mail to make us remember what it was, when the time comes.
- ebzlo 14y agoWill do. :)