Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by freeelncer on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:49AM
(#16046030)
Same nostalgic feelings here. Only this time you’re the only one that gets to see it. Its fun when launching a new project and wanting to celebrate every visitor that you gain.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by rhuehn on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:04PM
(#16046824)
I spun up a pageview notifier just for fun by creating a webtask to ping a service on my home automation system. This enables the usual stuff - real time UI, audio alerts, webpush notifications, history, etc.
The webtask keeps the HA connection secrets but also works on static sites. On the HA side, the custom service pulses a binary sensor device created from {title, pathname}.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by digi_owl on Monday January 01, 2018 @10:26AM
(#16046362)
I find myself thinking about JWZs diary from the Netscape days, where on launch day someone in the office had rigged up a script that played a cannon shot whenever a download completed successfully.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by CM30 on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:52PM
(#16047390)
Neat concept, though I do wonder whether you'd go nuts if your site turned out to be extremely popular. I can imagine the sound being something like a machine gun firing if you tried this on say, Hacker News.
Still, seems like it could be fun to play around with none the less.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by PrimHelios on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:29PM
(#16049159)
Apparently that site redirects to a picture of a testicle [0]when the link is clicked from HN, seems the author of that blog hates HN. Figured I'd give a warning that it's NSFW for anybody at work
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by fiatjaf on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:58AM
(#16046060)
I don't like the fact that you silently assume everybody has Google Analytics installed on their site. You don't even consider telling people that they need that.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by fiatjaf on Monday January 01, 2018 @10:47AM
(#16046470)
Piwik? I don't want a Piwik-compatible option. I'm not even complaining about Google Analytics, I'm just saying it doesn't sound well to just tell people to open Google Analytics.
I would complain the same way if a website promised a guide to calculate interest rates and started the article with "Open Excel...".
Adding a "For this to work you'll need Google Analytics installed in your site" notice would solve everything.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by nsgi on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:55PM
(#16055531)
Why is that necessary? The "open Google Analytics" part makes it clear enough. It's not as if they're an interpreter that is going to crash when they see something they can't logically do ;)
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by lemagedurage on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:25AM
(#16046148)
Seems far fetched. I bet the amount of people who
- own a site
- are unaware of GA
- execute step 1 without reading 2
... and...
- know how to restart their server
... is exactly 0.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by flexie on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:49AM
(#16046029)
Why would you want to be disturbed every few seconds? It's bad enough with interruptions from emails, chats, skype, calls, messages, coworkers walking in etc. This might actually have the potential to kill your remaining few productive spells.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by duiker101 on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:12AM
(#16046109)
Why would you want to have fun at all? Fun really takes away time from all the productivity I could do.
Apart from that. Personally I keep a tab with real time because I like to look if there is a surge of users(I mostly have max 5 concurrent users) because it might mean someone mentioned the site somewhere so I like to go and maybe try to participate in the conversation.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by karimf on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:56AM
(#16046048)
I guess when you've spent weeks developing an interesting project, it's so satisfying to see when it gains tractions, even just one visitor. Then you turn the chirps off later when things get better.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by beejiu on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:24AM
(#16046141)
Maybe because you are early stage and wish to pay close attention to how people use your product. A sales agent might want to keep an eye on their hot prospect as they browse the website. There are lots of possibilities.
Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we...
by nsgi on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:59PM
(#16055563)
If you get disturbed an average of every five seconds then you have around 6 million visits per year. Usually something worth celebrating for a new site, and you don't have to keep it on indefinitely :)
The webtask keeps the HA connection secrets but also works on static sites. On the HA side, the custom service pulses a binary sensor device created from {title, pathname}.
https://github.com/theatersoft/test-device/blob/master/webta...
Still, seems like it could be fun to play around with none the less.
Apparently it was a cannon sound; damn, that must have been loud as hell on release day.
[0] (NSFW): https://i.imgur.com/32R3qLv.png
Glad it’s not what I thought :D
Will give it a go soon!
It's a bookmarklet not some kind of monolithic SaaS business
This is great! Have you considered adding a Piwik-compatible option?
I would complain the same way if a website promised a guide to calculate interest rates and started the article with "Open Excel...".
Adding a "For this to work you'll need Google Analytics installed in your site" notice would solve everything.
1. They perform step 1, ok.
2. They open GA (what for? well let's just open it)
3. Click the bookmark, ok.
4. Strange, nothing seems to happen.
5. Fiddle a bit. Maybe it's my website, let's restart the server.
6. Reaction, eventually: this sucks.
Then they are not likely going to need this service in the first place.
Apart from that. Personally I keep a tab with real time because I like to look if there is a surge of users(I mostly have max 5 concurrent users) because it might mean someone mentioned the site somewhere so I like to go and maybe try to participate in the conversation.