Re:How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, wi...
by nbashaw on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:01PM
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I work at Olark - just out of curiosity, what could we do better?
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Re:How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, wi...
by kristofferR on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:52PM
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It sucks that the "Powered by Olark" text is there even for paid accounts/that it is so big and it sucks even more that it can't be translated to other languages. English text on non-English websites looks incredible non-professional, so much so that even though I love all the other aspects of Olark I've considered switching.
From my Norwegian customer's perspective it looks like a free script. A Norwegian company, Idium, is actually successfully charging 3500 USD for a live chat solution inferior to Olark, but since it's in Norwegian they're able to do it.
Re:How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, wi...
by massarog on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:07PM
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Olark is a great product, only gripe (which isn't a big one) is that I liked having a photo next to my name in the chat box. I felt a photo went a long way when people could actually see who they were chatting with. I haven't used olark in over 6 months though so you may have added that feature in, I'm not sure.
Re:How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, wi...
by nbashaw on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:42PM
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Yes - haha we actually do have that now, but admittedly not as well-integrated into themes as groove has. It's something we'd like to work on more, but there are a couple other items on the roadmap that are much higher priority.
Thanks so much for the feedback :)