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It was three months ago to the day that we announced our private beta. We were thrilled to see thousands of people sign up for the beta. We've worked hard to improve the product over the last three months based on their feedback and we're now ready to come out of beta and launch to the public!

Our goal is to make it as easy as humanly possible for you to create and run A/B tests on your site. All you need to do is enter your website URL and point and click on what you want to change. Absolutely no coding or engineering required. You don't even need to create an account to get started.

We're working hard to improve the product every day based on your feedback-- just reply to this comment or shoot us an email at feedback at optimizely dot com and let us know what you think!

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I actually got excited watching that video, and I don't even have something to use it for right now. Looks fantastic. I also really like how you have the plans setup to record stats from all visitors, but only unlock them if you buy the appropriate plan. 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.

Based on the results in the promo video, looks like you should have your video autoplay! ;-)

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 free trial and downgrade at the end of your free trial if you like.

A undo functionality would be super sweet!

"Also on the front page: when you enter a URL and hit enter on your keyboard you are taken to some TechCrunch article :)" ... well scratch that, it does not happen any more.

Great job otherwise, I'm "selling" this to my boss tomorrow :)

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 are keyboard shortcuts as well!

As for the front page, is it possible you accidentally hit tab and then enter? If you hit enter right away, it works. If you hit tab, it changes focus to the first testimonial link on the page which is that TC article. We'll fix this so it doesn't happen in the future.

Thanks again for the feedback!

It's quite possible I hit tab first yes. As for the undo: great. To be honest, I haven't even noticed the triangles, so that's why I wasn't aware of the feature.

Awesome stuff Pete - even better than I expected it to be and the video's really good.

Great to see you guys out in the wild!

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