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Geek Porn (chartbeat)

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I really really dislike when services do not disclose pricing. I cannot find anything other than "Try it free for 30 days." Clicking "Learn More" gives me no more info. Regardless how much it is, this just gives me an underhanded feeling. I thought it was common knowledge these days that full disclosure of pricing is what works in generating user interaction. Not knowing what the price will be after those 30 days, I simply will not "Try it".

The sign up page (https://chartbeat.com/signup/) says that the price is $9.95 per month.

Ah I see that now. However, I was unwilling to even click on the "Try it" button, so I would not have gotten that information anyway. The web is too full of services that do the "try-it-free" and then the "good-luck-trying-to-cancel-the-service" that I would highly recommend they disclose the pricing up front.

I did also notice their FAQ had it after clicking around, but again, that still feels like they are hiding it, as that is a link hidden at the bottom of the page in the footer.

Why linking to a blog post with no content instead of http://chartbeat.com/ directly?

Meh. I think geeks look at the repeated RPM-style gauges and start thinking how they could design the interface better.

Here's a link to view the real-time traffic on betashop.com. Pretty cool to see the Y-Hacker News impact.

http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=betashop.com&k=1fd04...

Just a quick heads up... When the dashboard is "paused", the page is not properly masked. When I clicked to resume, it opened a link in a new page.

Hey, thanks for putting the word "porn" directly in the URL itself. I'm sure the company content filters are going to love that.

Related: http://lloogg.com

I provide this service as free for now, its more than one year at this point, not sure about the future. Well at least this is how Redis got started :) (*SQL was not good for real-time stats, really).

Chartbeat also has a free iphone app with push notifications.

just added it for pitchfork.com, and loving it.

I always thought geek porn was real porn, but on the internet.

I was under the impression that it was porn of geeks...

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