Re:20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
by gingerlime on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:33PM
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I was tempted to make a snarky comment about using LaTeX, but I'm not sure it's entirely fair. It doesn't seem like just a bunch of MarketingSpeak wrapped in LaTeX to be honest.
My issue with Optimizely are mainly how they essentially ditched us as (paying) customers. We were admittedly small-fish, but we were paying and were willing to pay more, but they switched to Enterprise-vs-Free without any middle grounds. Enterprise was way too expensive for us. Free didn't include essential features, so we were just stuck.
I ended up writing an open-source javascript A/B test client[0] (and recently also an AWS-lambda backend[1]), but it still has a way to go...
My issue with Optimizely are mainly how they essentially ditched us as (paying) customers. We were admittedly small-fish, but we were paying and were willing to pay more, but they switched to Enterprise-vs-Free without any middle grounds. Enterprise was way too expensive for us. Free didn't include essential features, so we were just stuck.
I ended up writing an open-source javascript A/B test client[0] (and recently also an AWS-lambda backend[1]), but it still has a way to go...
[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/alephbet
[1] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel