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With 2500+ customers, an epic journey has just begun at Wingify
- Noppix 13y agoCrossed? How/why? Edit: original title was "Visual Website Optimizer crosses 2500 paying customers" hence the question. It has since been changed.
- paraschopra 13y agoIt meant we have surpassed 2500 paying customers. I agree "crosses" is an odd way to put it.
- Joe_Knapp 13y agoIt's an outstanding product. The competitors fail to have all the features they offer.
- btilly 13y agoI first heard about wingify September 9, 2009 when Paras sent me an email telling me that he'd got the idea from reading my presentation on A/B testing, and asking for initial feedback on the product that he was developing. I'm glad to see how well it has done since.
- paraschopra 13y agoThanks Ben. You have been a great help in how the product has evolved! Initial feedback is always the most critical one.
- luzon19 13y agoRespect.
- mgrabowski 13y agoWhat ere some of your pain points with initial user acquisition? Was growth more tied to affiliates, PPC, media buys?
- paraschopra 13y agoInitial user acquisition was purely done by writing content on popular blogs like Smashing Magazine. Word of mouth and customer case studies helped a ton!
- mgrabowski 13y agothanks for the reply and congrats on the success.
- swah 13y agoVery inspiring story. Kinda OT: what is in 800K lines of code for website optimization? I cannot imagine.
- paraschopra 13y agoVisual Website Optimizer started as the easiest A/B testing tool (it still is!), but there's a lot of features now. From cross domain tracking (that requires 3rd party cookies) to geo-behavioral targeting with 15+ variables to heatmaps. It's actually becoming a very comprehensive analytics and optimisation platform. Here's the full feature list http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php Not sure if I answered your question, but the gist of my response is that features add lines of code. There's frontend, backend, test cases, housekeeping scripts, monitoring, etc.
- swah 13y agoYes, thank you for the writeup. That page sums it up: a lot of features!
- segmondy 13y agoDo you write code for a living?
- swah 13y agoNot that much. Sorry if it sounded like a snide remark. I just thought the number was big and was trying to understand what those 80 modules of 10000 lines would be. For comparison, Python 2.7.4 seems to have 400K lines of Python code. C:\Users\me\Desktop\Python-2.7.4>cloc . 4233 text files. 4130 unique files. 1424 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.58 T=23.0 s (134.3 files/s, 54205.3 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 2086 86198 107060 414941 C 548 50019 36839 369130 C/C++ Header 254 6514 9919 64470 Bourne Shell 39 6109 6235 38030 m4 19 1585 191 15172 Assembly 47 3659 4474 13733 make 12 500 360 3043 HTML 14 393 11 2336 Teamcenter def 9 173 162 2104 Objective C 7 102 70 635 Expect 7 115 178 545 DOS Batch 30 90 102 426 CSS 1 97 19 323 C++ 2 27 18 134 vim script 1 36 7 106 Javascript 2 15 10 97 XML 4 57 2 73 NAnt scripts 2 1 0 30 IDL 1 0 0 24 Visual Basic 2 1 1 12 YAML 1 2 0 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 3088 155693 165658 925370 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- capnjngl 13y agoFWIW, I love VWO and have used it for a few years as my primary A/B testing tool. I've emailed Paras a few times about small questions and feature requests, and he's always responded quickly - that speaks volumes about their focus on customer happiness (the support team is great too). Thanks for the fantastic tool, Paras! Keep on doing great things!