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Hello HN, I started working on SessionForward a few months ago, when working on a UX/UI project for a client, and could not find an tools for Sessions Replays and Heatmaps generation, which would target developers. The project is still very much in Beta, so rough around the edges. If you decide to try it out and you have any suggestions, I am happy to hear about it! I will not charge for product usage for at least a few months, till a more polished version of it will be available.

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What is the value one would get with your product over Hotjar or fullstory? I'm curious to learn more about what attracted you to this space and where you plan on positioning yourself in the market.

Dear Adam, indeed, Hotjar and Fullstory are great tools, and as an avid user of both of them I can say they are, as of now, far more polished, solid, and complete UX suites than SessionForward really is. The straightforward answer to your question, is that as a developement oriented PM I was feeling like I wanted a frills free product focused on simplicity and performance, and that is 100% targeted towards tech, rather than marketing people. The 'vision' answer (i.e., why SF will be better than competition in the future) is based on automated neural networks driven actionable insights: sometimes you don't want/have time to go through 200 of your users not clicking on a button, you just want to receive an email telling you to please move your call to action button from the top left corner to the top right corner of your page!

Congrats it looks nice. I currently use hot jar. Looking at your site im left with one big question. How do I install it on my site?

Hello Stephen, thank you for the nice words! You are completely right, I left this basic piece of info out of landing. As for hotjar and fullstory, when you sign up you are prompted with a <script> snippet, which you can paste before the closing </head> tag of the pages you would like to track.

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