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Gemfury A/B testing their landing page

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Definitely impressed with how quickly they got this page out there. It's a good example of someone seeing a very limited window of opportunity to do something that gets them noticed -- and actually taking it. I'll bet the designer felt a rush as he designed and coded the page as quickly as possible, for fear that we might have already forgotten about the thing which this is about. Certainly paid off.

Thank you. This has been a lot of fun. It took about 2 hours from inception to the first iteration. You're right, I was worried that Curebit will capitulate before we're done and would take much humor out of it. Luckily, it still did pretty well with the crowd, even though we published this after their apology.

I could see it being funny as a standalone parody if it wasn't attached to your company. But it seems that it's an attempt at publicity for gemfury. And since you're using an image of DHH, I think it's in poor taste. You may not get the reaction from the crowd you were looking for.

Or at the very least, host the images on your own server.

They say "please don't take this seriously" and pretend it's a parody. Yet... the product is real, and the "see plans and pricing" button still takes you to a payment page. So because they're promoting their site on HN instead of on Techcrunch they think it's okay? This is like building a knockoff MacBook with an Apple logo on it, and pasting a "parody" sticker on it.

I guess the GemFury folks just wish they could get as much publicity as CureBit did, even if it's mostly negative.

Thank you for the suggestion. We've fixed the "See Plans and Pricing" link to give a more appropriate response.

I don't know how I feel about this stunt, but I've been using gemfury for about a month and it's really cool. Makes deployment super easy.

Thanks for your help with beta testing the service. Glad you're not letting this little bit of fun affect your opinion.

Clever. Great way to get your name out there!

Thank you. It beats writing a dry "Introducing Gemfury" blog post.

Very clever. I liked it. It's nice and refreshing to see this as we put our pitchforks away.

Thanks for the support. Judging by other comments, the pitchforks are never fully put away on literal-net :)

this is of low taste, i'm impressed with the ability of people to try to use any situation. And using the DHH pic is really lame.

Ouch? Im not sure thats what the current debate really needs.

My karma seems to be swaying up and down due to this comment. The page itself is funny but i dont think you are helping anyone but yourself with the page, which is very creative but in bad taste.

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