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- create linkbait articles with arbitrary number of items mentioned in the title

- throw in alternative version of "1 weird tip" wording for good measure

We tried something about 3 years ago that (presumably) addresses the same problem.

The feedback on HN back then was similar, especially the frequent mentions of GA custom dashboards.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499018 (just for reference, the service is _not_ operational)

At one point we started asking people we were presenting the product to to put together a GA custom report that's comparable in terms of setup time and output format. To this day I've not heard of anyone actually pulling it off.

HN is not your target audience for this. Hopefully you've already realized that. Your market is the massive amount of Google Analytics installations that remain completely unused because people can't be bothered with the details. Yet these people are interested in stats about their websites.

I'd be interested about how the "per report" pricing is working out, at first glance it seems a bit steep.

Good luck.

"and this is winning: ..."

No. It's obfuscating HTML with a JS wrapper.

http://www.ractivejs.org/ (also currently on the front page) uses a pattern that reduces friction while keeping responsibilities where they belong, i.e. HTML for markup and JS for interactivity.

Someone writing about plugging products while plugging their product referencing someone writing about plugging products while plugging their product.

We have come full circle.

That seems like it is no longer available.

junk polls get junk answers.

"I don't understand the presentation" as a reaction to two massive dropdowns qualifies as consulting these days?

"Tap fans" sounds close to "milk cows" to me.

So many tender souls that are awfully offended by someone using a bad word on the internet. The horror.

Make the native 'Inspector' tool go away. Accidentally opening that thing (because they're next to each other in the context menu and the labels are similar) instead of Firebug is infuriating.

"U.S. student debt market cap reaches $966B, stakeholders mostly satisfied"

The headline blows this out of proportion.

Few people (who act obnoxious as hell) report a problem that can be solved by moving away from a deprecated system, yet they fail to even read the note because they're busy smashing exclamation marks into the issue tracker.

Might be as simple as a scraper for "Show HN" posts.

The lack of flow that Metro provides was not lost when copying it.

Definitely a candidate for A/B testing.

Hacker News for Europe = Hacker News.

No.

Agreed. I can't help but think that the article has an arrogant undertone to it. There are plenty of startups who do just fine without VC 'support'.

fortunately for everyone else, we just added another 50 beta accounts. thanks!

:)

Cheers :)

You're absolutely right. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the setup procedure and style of Analytics' own report feature. Over the longer term, we will add other data sources to enrich the information that Analytics provides. At that point, the difference will become clearer. Also, we made the surprising experience that even the process outlined by you can be quite challenging for some website owners who try to avoid as much hassle as possible to get to their data, even if it means sacrificing a bit of depth. That's the situation we want to address by making the process as simple as possible, although (obviously) we have some work ahead of us.