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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great idea! We're actually running an Optimizely experiment on the http://www.optimizely.com homepage right now. I won't give away what we're experimenting with but we'll blog about it once the experiment is over and share what we learned
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Right now our biggest competitor is non-consumption. Businesses see the value in A/B testing but just aren't doing it. The pain points we are trying to solve are setup & implementation, easy-to-understand real-time results, and resolvin
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great idea! I'll try to convince my co-founder to write a blog post about his experience going from product manager for Google App Engine to coder using GAE every day as a customer!
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by dsiroker 16y ago
I assume that means you can start out with the small plan, then upgrade and see stats that have already been recorded? If so, very cool. That's exactly right! Glad you like it. You can also start at a Silver or Gold plan for your 30-day f
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Offering refunds is great, but it's even better if they're not needed. :-) Certainly agree! :)
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great feedback! On pricing page: I agree this isn't perfect. What metric would you like us to segment our plans by ideally? We want to make this as simple as possible so folks know how to budget for this and so they can easily know which pl
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by dsiroker 16y ago
All our plans start with a 30-day free trial so anyone can start with Silver or Gold plan and at the end of the trial period switch plans. We also offer 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee so if at the end of any month you aren't satisfi
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Great question! Visitors are bucketed randomly into each variation. Once they have been bucketed they are cookied and will see the same variation over and over again if they reload the page You specify how much traffic you want to allocate
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Yes! https pages are a great place to start experimenting because they are so close to the conversion event most businesses care about: making money. Optimizely works seamlessly on https and http pages alike.
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Yes, we designed Optimizely with precisely this use case in mind. Here is the documentation on how to set this up: http://support.optimizely.com/faqs/getting-started/experimen... To clarify: If you want to run one experiment on a single d
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Sorry you thought the video was dry. I'm not the best voice actor in the world. We were thinking of putting a song from the Inception soundtrack in the background or using a real voice actor from http://www.voices.com/ Do you think either
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by dsiroker 16y ago
This is a great suggestion. We try to automatically put the dialog in the right place depending on the action you are trying to perform. For example, if you use drag-and-drop and move something to the right-edge of the window, we move the i
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by dsiroker 16y ago
This is a great question! The inspiration for Optimizely came from my experience during the Obama campaign where I was the Director of Analytics. We used Google Website Optimizer extensively and even tried Omniture Test & Target. The bi
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We've actually just implemented Undo! It didn't make it into the demo video but if you click on the little upside triangle next to a variation's title (e.g. "Variation #1") you have an option to Undo or Redo. There
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A/B Testing You'll Actually Use: Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Out of Beta(optimizely.com)
249 points by dsiroker 16y ago|93 comments
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by dsiroker 16y ago
This is great! Thanks for hosting, Justin. Let me know if you are looking for other sponsors. We'd be interested.
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by dsiroker 16y ago
Thanks :)
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Google Buzz = Twitter + Facebook + FriendFeed + MyLikes + FourSquare + Yelp
1 points by dsiroker 17y ago|0 comments
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Simple hack of Google's JS API to geo-locate your users for free
15 points by dsiroker 17y ago|3 comments
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Google Talk: Obama Campaign Analytics and Website Optimization(youtube.com)
3 points by dsiroker 17y ago|0 comments
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by dsiroker 17y ago
Hope you guys like my talk. I'd be glad to answer any questions from the HN community!
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How We Used Data to Win the Presidential Election(youtube.com)
5 points by dsiroker 17y ago|1 comments
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by dsiroker 17y ago
I wanted to post this as an example of how HTML 5 "just works" in Chromium and Chromium "almost works" on Mac. =)
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Google Wave on Chromium on Mac(siroker.com)
2 points by dsiroker 17y ago|2 comments