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Geek Porn (chartbeat)

30 points by betashop 17y ago

tptacek 17y ago
Meh. I think geeks look at the repeated RPM-style gauges and start thinking how they could design the interface better.
clistctrl 17y ago
I always thought geek porn was real porn, but on the internet.
- sophacles 17y ago
  I was under the impression that it was porn of geeks...
betashop 17y ago
Here's a link to view the real-time traffic on betashop.com. Pretty cool to see the Y-Hacker News impact. http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=betashop.com&k=1fd047d939c5e98584b781508e3b3cdb http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=betashop.com&k=1fd04...
- markerdmann 17y ago
  Just a quick heads up... When the dashboard is "paused", the page is not properly masked. When I clicked to resume, it opened a link in a new page.
hkuo 17y ago
I really really dislike when services do not disclose pricing. I cannot find anything other than "Try it free for 30 days." Clicking "Learn More" gives me no more info. Regardless how much it is, this just gives me an underhanded feeling. I thought it was common knowledge these days that full disclosure of pricing is what works in generating user interaction. Not knowing what the price will be after those 30 days, I simply will not "Try it".
- markerdmann 17y ago
  The sign up page (https://chartbeat.com/signup/ https://chartbeat.com/signup/) says that the price is $9.95 per month.
  - hkuo 17y ago
    Ah I see that now. However, I was unwilling to even click on the "Try it" button, so I would not have gotten that information anyway. The web is too full of services that do the "try-it-free" and then the "good-luck-trying-to-cancel-the-service" that I would highly recommend they disclose the pricing up front. I did also notice their FAQ had it after clicking around, but again, that still feels like they are hiding it, as that is a link hidden at the bottom of the page in the footer.
mattdennewitz 17y ago
just added it for pitchfork.com, and loving it.
moron4hire 17y ago
Hey, thanks for putting the word "porn" directly in the URL itself. I'm sure the company content filters are going to love that.
arctictony 17y ago
Chartbeat also has a free iphone app with push notifications.
Timothee 17y ago
Why linking to a blog post with no content instead of http://chartbeat.com/ http://chartbeat.com/ directly?
antirez 17y ago
Related: http://lloogg.com http://lloogg.com I provide this service as free for now, its more than one year at this point, not sure about the future. Well at least this is how Redis got started :) (*SQL was not good for real-time stats, really).

30 points by betashop 17y ago

tptacek 17y ago

Meh. I think geeks look at the repeated RPM-style gauges and start thinking how they could design the interface better.

clistctrl 17y ago

I always thought geek porn was real porn, but on the internet.

sophacles 17y ago
I was under the impression that it was porn of geeks...

betashop 17y ago

Here's a link to view the real-time traffic on betashop.com. Pretty cool to see the Y-Hacker News impact. http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=betashop.com&k=1fd047d939c5e98584b781508e3b3cdb http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=betashop.com&k=1fd04...

markerdmann 17y ago
Just a quick heads up... When the dashboard is "paused", the page is not properly masked. When I clicked to resume, it opened a link in a new page.

hkuo 17y ago

I really really dislike when services do not disclose pricing. I cannot find anything other than "Try it free for 30 days." Clicking "Learn More" gives me no more info. Regardless how much it is, this just gives me an underhanded feeling. I thought it was common knowledge these days that full disclosure of pricing is what works in generating user interaction. Not knowing what the price will be after those 30 days, I simply will not "Try it".

markerdmann 17y ago
The sign up page (https://chartbeat.com/signup/ https://chartbeat.com/signup/) says that the price is $9.95 per month.
- hkuo 17y ago
  Ah I see that now. However, I was unwilling to even click on the "Try it" button, so I would not have gotten that information anyway. The web is too full of services that do the "try-it-free" and then the "good-luck-trying-to-cancel-the-service" that I would highly recommend they disclose the pricing up front. I did also notice their FAQ had it after clicking around, but again, that still feels like they are hiding it, as that is a link hidden at the bottom of the page in the footer.

mattdennewitz 17y ago

just added it for pitchfork.com, and loving it.

moron4hire 17y ago

Hey, thanks for putting the word "porn" directly in the URL itself. I'm sure the company content filters are going to love that.

arctictony 17y ago

Chartbeat also has a free iphone app with push notifications.

Timothee 17y ago

Why linking to a blog post with no content instead of http://chartbeat.com/ http://chartbeat.com/ directly?

antirez 17y ago

Related: http://lloogg.com http://lloogg.com I provide this service as free for now, its more than one year at this point, not sure about the future. Well at least this is how Redis got started :) (*SQL was not good for real-time stats, really).