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Comment by wmeredith | Hacker News Reader

360 Voltage is out of Beta, it's a set of online marketing tools that my agency envisioned for in-house use and decided to turn into a freemium web site along the way, which we now use in house (natch). To say that HN has been good to me is an understatement, it's an oasis of rational thought and discussion in a wasteland of online social media sites... (</digression>)

So I've got 10 yearly 360 Voltage PRO account subscriptions ($149/ea.) to give away here to some devs who would really dig into the site, use the tools, and then give us ongoing feedback as we iterate like mad and try to populate the blog with useful content. Obviously, that's all unenforceable, but you get the idea...

Once again, I'm giving away 10 yearly pro account subscriptions to HN users to help us prime the pump on our freemium web site, which is a search marketing tool set called 360 Voltage. If you're interested:

1) Create a free account on the site. (360voltage.com)

2) Leave an initial impression of the site in this thread

3) Shoot me an email via wade [at] voltagecreative [dot] com with a sentence or two about how you'd use the tools. Also include your 360 Voltage account name in the email so I can flip it to PRO status on the back end.

I'll post, "Thanks guys, they're all gone" in this thread once they've been spoken for. (If I get more than 10 requests, the PRO accounts will be awarded subjectively/pretty-much-randomly by me.)

Hi Wade, this looks great! I gave Voltmeter, Randal, and Distiller a go and they all produced clean, easy to understand reports. This product actually comes at a great time because I was just about to get rolling on some A/B testing and SEO tweaking of a site of mine.

One weird quirk, on the Distiller page, when I came to that page from the Voltmeter, I found the site url I was checking was populated over the top of the instructions in the input box. (Win 7, Chrome 4.0249)

So far the site looks pretty decent, the tools are somewhat standard so far but show a good basis on which to expand. I haven' run all the tests yet so I will see how it does with the RANDAL and others.

I really like how you score each section seperatly. It inspires me to work on scoring better on these sections. I have used the hubspot grader tool before, but I do prefer yours. It seems faster too.

The UI looks great! I really like how simple it is to get around and how you're notified when something is going on.

My report was a little slow and it let me know I could come back to it at any time. (it wasn't obvious at first)

I set the account up for my wife's retail site online and the reports look pretty close to what we document now.

I think I'd have trouble explaining how to use the Darwin tool. Maybe have some more information on how to set that up for people who are a little less technical?

Hi Wade,

This looks like a good site. I checked out the Voltmeter test and it gave me some info I already knew, but also some information that might help with site ranking. So it seems like you're on the right track!

I'll definitely be checking out your site more in-depth moving forwards!

Btw, I enjoyed the little messages that appeared while I was waiting for the report to run (e.g., "Web crawlin' ain't eeasy!"). It may be a bit trivial, but I got a kick out of it anyways.

its the little things we put into this that make it nice :)

Checking it out now. One thing. When I click on the ? next to the "targeting score link" it just takes me to the top of the page. The tool tip is "How is this calculated?", but I'm not seeing the info after clicking the link.

I'm particularly interested in the keyword distiller.

edit: I forgot to mention that I really like the design. Nice and clean.

Wow! I'm in prelaunch development right now but in the next month or two I've got to kick in the marketing, seo, advertising, copy optimizing, etc. I was kind of dreading spending lots of time inefficiently and not getting much out of it, but these tools look like they could really help me focus and measure my efforts.

Hey Wade, thanks for this. I registered and the site looks very good. I like the simplicity of the tools. Tried a quick test on one of my sites and liked the way voltmeter displayed the results. I'd be happy to provide more detailed feedback as I spend more time looking at the other tools. Cheers!

Wade, looks promising. I've used SEOmoz tools before, curious how this stacks up. The historian seems interesting, but could raise privacy concerns (guessing it's using browser history via visited links). Would be nice to see an FAQ on exactly what's being sniffed for.

Good luck.

Looks really polished. I'm really impressed when a site can come out of the gate looking so good.

The search engine ranking tracker would be especially useful to me. However, when I run it I am seeing significantly different results than when I go to Google directly (with personalization turned off, i.e. logged out). I'll send you an email with the details.

Randal (keyword monitoring) and Historian (user history/analytics) are fantastic tools -- I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Well done, and looks nice too :)

Looks great so far. I love the UI on the Voltmeter. I love the idle detection too ;). Everything seems really well laid out. I can't wait to start running this on our other domains.

Wade - so far so good. I love tools that require minimal input from me and perform some magic. Will be in touch.

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