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Show HN: I just launched my side-project: Chatter Analytics

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11 pointsjrallison8 comments

I went ahead and bought a subscription. I have too many users on my site to follow the feed without a search or a grouping of all the different user ids so I can click on them, and view particular ones.

I also need to search for things like the signup form, so I can follow them since I have no idea who is a new user or not.

So far it's an over priced service that still needs a lot of functionality. I hope you can add a search, and a button I can click to see all the separate ids.

If not, it was a waste of 15 dollars as I cannot get a proper use out of it. It's just a scrolling mess of interaction. Clearly I can click on a single user, but I run a game, and each user has a lot of interactions.

Please assist. I like it, it just needs to be more usable.

Edit: I see user search is a feature you intend to add for a 50 dollar a month fee instead of the normal 15 a month. I disagree very strongly with this, it is simply a core feature for without, 15 dollars is extremely excessive.

Edit2: It should also be trivial to name the ids the username of the person when they login, by looking at a username field, and assigning it. This would be a huge help.

Thanks for the feedback, Andy!

I'll follow up with you directly via email, but all good points that I want to address in the near future.

I wanted to launch early, get feedback, and iterate quickly.

I would love to hear your thoughts on pricing, the homepage/demo, and the product in general!

I've linked to the blog post describing the launch. The homepage of the product is http://chatteranalytics.com (obviously)

Thanks!

Might just be me, but the red links on the blog gave me a bit of a headache. Any possiblity you could change those to a more matte red color? I think matching the color of your logo would be a lot easier on the eyes.

As far as the homepage itself, I loved the simple layout. I can't comment on the demo section as I'm stuck with IE8 at work.

Probably not just you.

I changed it, hopefully now it's less headache inducing. :)

Looks great!

Without a free tier, I'm out. I want to make the purchase decision on my timeline, not yours. I've operated several freemium services so I know how cheap, easy and important it is.

That's good feedback. My thoughts were mainly along 3 lines:

1) With the demo on the homepage, you immediately get a good idea of the usefulness of the tool.

2) I'm not really interested in a freemium model where I support a large base of non-paying users.

3) I'm trying to see if this is worth working on, and the number of people who are willing to pay is a good indicator of that.

I'm interested in your thoughts on the benefits/downsides of this approach.

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