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by ebzlo 14y ago
After being in beta for almost 4 months and a ton of great feedback from HN, we've finally launched Taurus. We're still looking for ways to improve the product so any feedback or comments are of course welcome.
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Show HN: Taurus.io launch - Set up product tours for web apps in 15 min(taurus.io)
2 points by ebzlo 14y ago|1 comments
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by ebzlo 14y ago
I always remembered this as being "invalid" HTML, but a quick Google search turns up nothing. Can anybody shed some light?
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How a useless dashboard panel helped us boost usage by 200%(evan.lc)
4 points by ebzlo 14y ago|0 comments
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How a useless dashboard panel helped us boost usage by 200%(evan.lc)
1 points by ebzlo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ebzlo 14y ago
I've been asked that I avoid using classes, because my boss didn't understand OOP (LAMP stack).
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by ebzlo 14y ago
;)
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Too many would be interesting, but we could definitely drop it down to 2 or 3. I had thought about putting every option into an advanced tab, but figured that would add to clutter. We'll likely revisit it if people start asking for it.
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Sorry, I suppose I should have just linked to the landing page at the end of the article there (now amended). Taurus allows users to create product tours using just a few lines of JS, the bookmarklet loads the tool onto the demo page.
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How we allowed users to customize the look & feel of our app with only 4 options(evan.lc)
10 points by ebzlo 14y ago|7 comments
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by ebzlo 14y ago
I once started at a job where their last programmer had just quit. When I started, my new boss explained to me that I had to check out files by telling him which ones I needed and we updated the production server with me emailing him the mo
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by ebzlo 14y ago
On the contrary, I think icons have become indicative of actionable text or a button. Just today there was an article on HN that criticized Windows 8 of being too minimalistic-- it was hard to understand at first glance what was merely a la
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Feedback bruises egos and builds businesses(evan.lc)
1 points by ebzlo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ebzlo 14y ago
I don't misplace my wallet enough to warrant an extra 3.8mm. In fact, I classify losing your wallet as a minor annoyance for most people than anything else (I've certainly never been as upset as the man in the video). If people were really
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Mandarin speaker here. I'm more impressed that it was able to reconstruct the sentences properly (where traditional translation tools typically fail). The output was fine. Obviously doesn't sound like a human speaker, but the tones are corr
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Sure thing. The problem we're attempting to address is not necessarily the HTML/CSS/Javascript component of creating a tooltip, but rather the creation of a system and its continued maintenance. When we hand rolled our own product tour code
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Will do. :)
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Thanks for the kind words. :)
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by ebzlo 14y ago
We've given the popups the ability to trigger JS events and we will be adding the ability to trigger popups with JS events as well. Could you send me an email (ebzlo@ebzlo.com)? I'd be more than happy to send you an invite immediately if we
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by ebzlo 14y ago
This 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.
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by ebzlo 14y ago
No problem! Will do. :)
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Split testing sounds like a really neat idea! We'll talk about working that in later down the line. :)
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by ebzlo 14y ago
When 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
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Alright. Done. I'm setting at $9. Updated now.
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Great suggestions! # of steps included is something we haven't thought to implement, will do!
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by ebzlo 14y ago
No offense taken. Everybody here is completely right. We're going to change our pricing as soon as we step out of our closed beta.
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Thanks! We'll look into those issues; additionally, we'll be adding a bind to element feature in the future.
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by ebzlo 14y ago
This was originally in our plan for beta launch, but we yanked it to get something out faster. It's definitely in the pipeline. :)
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by ebzlo 14y ago
This is great (and flattering). We're definitely going back to the drawing board in regards to how we price this thing.
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by ebzlo 14y ago
Okay, you all have convinced me. Back to the drawing board on that.

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