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Our Show HN post results, 1 week later
- holgersindbaek 14y agoSaw it last week as well. Looks nice. What do you use to make the content directly editable? A javascript library of some sort?
- marccantwell 14y agoWe use http://imperavi.com/redactor/ http://imperavi.com/redactor/ as our wysiwyg editor, HTML5 data attributes, js, and a bunch of server-side engineering.
- TallboyOne 14y agoDo you have a ruby gem?
- marccantwell 14y agoYep. http://rubygems.org/gems/copybar http://rubygems.org/gems/copybar or https://github.com/copybar/copybar-gem https://github.com/copybar/copybar-gem
- TallboyOne 14y agowell I'm sold. I'm not sure if this is a recent thing but I remember the first time I saw this link I didn't see ruby so I just closed it without really digging. Perhaps that should go up there with your list of supported platforms. Great work.
- neya 14y agoLooks like you've turned that Sign-up button to green from black...kudos guys :)
- marccantwell 14y agoThanks.
- tisme 14y agoYou should investigate those bounces, they're pretty high for traffic like this.
- marccantwell 14y agoThanks for the note. What do you think that number should look like?
- tisme 14y agoFrom a source such as HN on something targeted like this I'd expect it to be much lower (<50%) the rate observed may be due to slow load times or landing page design or some other factor. There definitely seems to be some disconnect between expectations and what was found on the other side of the click. Possibly someone that did a comparable launch on HN could give exact figures if they're willing to part with them then you could compare notes to see what works and what does not. These can be tricky things to dig up, sometimes eye tracking is a solution to figure out where the disconnect is. There was a HN start-up working in this field (GazeHawk) but they've been acquired by facebook.
- yakshaving 14y agoNice! this is a cool service, pretty excited to see it taking off
- damniatx 14y agonice luck you got there, no one responding my Ask HN. :(
- marccantwell 14y agoI added a comment. Good luck!
- damniatx 14y agoThank you
- akamaka 14y agoAfter spending a few minutes browsing the site, I still don't get how it works. The JS makes sense, but what happens on the back end to save the edited content? How does it work with "any CMS"? As a web developer, I don't need an explanation of how "magical" this it is to be able to edit on the page, but I do need to know how it works! If you're targeting this at developers, the well-designed CTAs and screencasts matter less that a simple explanation of what's actually going on. I don't need to read that I can "quickly integrate" -- I just want to know the exact details and make my own judgement.
- marccantwell 14y agoIt basically works like Google Analytics, but writes dynamic content to the page. I'm sorry you weren't able to find what you needed. We really appreciate feedback and would love to get suggestions on how best to articulate our product and update our content accordingly. As a dev this should help you get started: https://copybar.io/#developerSection https://copybar.io/#developerSection
- holic 14y agoI haven't seen anyone else point this out, so I will - that background bugs me to no end! Here's an alternative image, in half the filesize, that is much easier on the eyes: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/anywhere2.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/anywhere2.jpg And this is what it looks like: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/copybar.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/copybar.png Whether or not you use it, thanks for the write up!