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Observer (Node.js KO 2011) - Observe and learn from your visitors in real time

observer.no.de

37 pointsTheCoreh18 comments

Seems to be way too slow to be useable right now. Did you get "knocked out"? ;)

My JS says

Is 'undefined' correct? Seems wrong. :(

I'm currently experiencing some scalability issues as you might have noticed. The machine I deployed on is limited to 128mb. But Joyent is actively resolving it.

You can try going to http://observer.no.de/sign-in to sign in again and see if that resolves your issues.

If not just create a new account :p

logging in from a different browser made it work - the 'undefined' was there right after I'd created an account.

Thanks a lot for the information.

Hmm. Sounds familiar: http://observerapp.com/

Yes I noticed that as well, but I found that the name observer really suited this service. But I'm still searching for alternate names to avoid potential confusion.

Looks nice. You need to clean up the homepage blurb though and there are just a few spelling errors (changed sections are in italics):

Observer allows you to follow and observe your website visitors in real time. Ever wondered what they were clicking on or how they are navigating on your website? Then Observer is ideal for you, it's a 1 script installation and you are done.

Hey,

Thanks for pointing out my grammer mistakes. English isn't my native language so I was hoping that vim's build in spelling check would fix most of the issues.

I have corrected the spelling mistakes and they should appear online soon when the cache expires. (luckily I decided to build in a small mongodb driven cms during the contest so I could fix these silly mistakes)

I'd freak out if that second example from the feature-list would happen to me while I was browsing some site. "Hello I see you are having issues finding the 'free account' button?" ... "are you spying on me?"

edit: ok, maybe not "freak out" but i'd certainly feel at unease. Specially if it was a site enabling some form of PIM/im/private-ish activity.

This is really incredible. Im testing it out with my sites and this is groundbreaking. Expect great things V1, im almost speechless. I need a guy like you on my startup!!!

I clicked around, but could not work the demo. Will try again later.

Also, just FYI: http://www.clicktale.com

These is a great way to analyze site usability with real customers, I hope you plan to keep this alive after node.js KO?

Yes I plan to continue development of this application after the competition, there are still some rough edges that needs to be fixed. So I see this a great working prototype to iterate on.

I still have some amazing ideas planned :)

I guess you're being "slashdotted", the site is very slow...

*bookmarking and i'll check on later, i'm curious.

Yeah, i really wanted to see this in action, but i guess your site is getting a lot of traffic at the moment.

My apologies for that, My Node Knock Out entry wasn't really expecting that much traffic :p

Really awesome idea! I cannot seem to click any of the links on my phone though.

Really nice, gonna check this out

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