yeti

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   Ask HN: How do you use A/B testing?

   4 points by yeti 17y ago|2 comments
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   by yeti 17y ago

   We started this way and was fine at the start, but problem is that we have many 1000s of customers now, and any bug that affects service causes us lots of hassles to clean up after.. (we had bad email problems and currency issues last month
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   Ask HN: Web testing is killing us - best practice?

   2 points by yeti 17y ago|4 comments
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   by yeti 18y ago

   Good point
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   by yeti 18y ago

   yes, we'll introduce the "refer a friend" + "import your contact list" in a couple weeks
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   by yeti 18y ago

   thanks guys!
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   by yeti 18y ago

   Thanks Nathaniel, we use analytics a lot and have some ad:hoc ways of getting some stats, but haven't properly setup the goal/funnel view... we should.
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   by yeti 18y ago

   Free for now, introducing paid options starting later this month. Yes, we'll do Facebook app/connect to get our viral growth rate up, planned for next month. Any suggestion how to find the sites targeting particular demographics and their r
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   by yeti 18y ago

   Yes, we have plenty to improve in improving the flow and newbie experience Always wondering about what priority should be new features we need for stickiness vs improving the first time experience
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    by yeti 18y ago

    Thats a good suggestion, thanks! ps - got any links to the digg examples?
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    by yeti 18y ago

    Thanks, froo, we did a little test of a couple of viral things (tag a friend / youtube etc) but to be honest they didn't really do so much, maybe because the content was cute but wasn't funny/shocking/bizarre enough...the hard part is to co
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    Ask HN: How to spend a marketing budget of $US 2k per month?

    27 points by yeti 18y ago|26 comments
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    Meez overtakes Facebook in the US(virtualworldsnews.com)

    1 points by yeti 18y ago|1 comments
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    by yeti 18y ago

    Oops, am on a Mac and have no budget. Any other solutions? Surprised if this isn't already done, if not it sounds like a great startup opportunity..
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    by yeti 18y ago

    Polyvore impressed when they launched a while back because they have a very simple, clean and functional interface. Actually their functions weren't and still aren't as advanced as other online scrapbook / graphic sites, but their UI has le
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    Ask HN: Tool like Google Analytics to track keyword search ranking over time

    5 points by yeti 18y ago|3 comments
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    by yeti 18y ago

    I agree, HK is great - low cost and good infrastructure, access to great, English speaking and globally aware talent
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    by yeti 18y ago

    I'd agree with this. Good tax system, government support, close to China etc... let me know if you need any feedback, my startup is based here
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    by yeti 18y ago

    Good suggestion, yea I agree.. I would also make it so real name is hidden, they pick their own nick or if they are an existing user just link to that
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    by yeti 18y ago

    thank you, that's helpful. will ask more..
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    by yeti 18y ago

    always good suggestion... well our current front page is pretty good to grab interest, but our registration flow has a lot of room to improve.. especially coz we require a plugin to use the site. we're working on that. still thinking about
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    by yeti 18y ago

    good suggestion, agree initially we'd be looking at it more for getting friends of our already active users aware of it, and then if they join, they can see on facebook the updates off site which will drive return visits. so it's incremen
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    by yeti 18y ago

    thanks for that, agree with u actually there is a class of user who would be put off by FC on a site. So we would only offer it as an option, in addition to our current account system, not the only choice..
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    by yeti 18y ago

    1. 13-20yo, 80% girls 2. USA, Hong Kong, Netherlands, UK, Belgium are top markets now 3. Roughly 50% 4. Roughly 60% 5. this is the tough part. We have features planned that could improve stickiness and make it more likely visitors will enjo
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    by yeti 18y ago

    yes, exactly :) It should give an improvement in registration rate as probably half our prospective/users are on facebook also (the other half are in other countries where facebook isn't so popular) but what I'm trying to get a handle on is
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    Ask HN: Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth?

    19 points by yeti 18y ago|17 comments
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    by yeti 18y ago

    once we finally made the tough decision to abandon the first product, then designing and making the second product was so much (3-4x) faster, as we knew exactly what sucked the first time around and how to avoid all the inefficiencies as we
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    by yeti 18y ago

    We have had a couple of CS interns work with us (1 on remote basis), and it's been great for both sides.. send me an email if you're interested simon a/t frenzoo d/o/t com.
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    by yeti 18y ago

    I think people give up mainly due to lack of momentum leading to lack of motivation. I can tell you how we failed with our first product. Bad design choices (that people would accept a large client download, that Mac wasn't that important)
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    by yeti 18y ago

    I'm in Hong Kong, if you're in town we can catch up with a couple other startup folks... email me simehome at gmail com