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Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by akamaka on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:47PM (#4706704)
After spending a few minutes browsing the site, I still don't get how it works. The JS makes sense, but what happens on the back end to save the edited content? How does it work with "any CMS"?

As a web developer, I don't need an explanation of how "magical" this it is to be able to edit on the page, but I do need to know how it works!

If you're targeting this at developers, the well-designed CTAs and screencasts matter less that a simple explanation of what's actually going on. I don't need to read that I can "quickly integrate" -- I just want to know the exact details and make my own judgement.

Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by marccantwell on Saturday October 27, 2012 @02:02PM (#4706750)
It basically works like Google Analytics, but writes dynamic content to the page.

I'm sorry you weren't able to find what you needed. We really appreciate feedback and would love to get suggestions on how best to articulate our product and update our content accordingly.

As a dev this should help you get started: https://copybar.io/#developerSection

Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by holic on Sunday October 28, 2012 @12:49AM (#4708181)
I haven't seen anyone else point this out, so I will - that background bugs me to no end!

Here's an alternative image, in half the filesize, that is much easier on the eyes: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/anywhere2.jpg

And this is what it looks like: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/copybar.png

Whether or not you use it, thanks for the write up!

Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by tisme on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:07PM (#4706580)
You should investigate those bounces, they're pretty high for traffic like this.
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by marccantwell on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:10PM (#4706589)
Thanks for the note. What do you think that number should look like?
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by tisme on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:27PM (#4706646)
From a source such as HN on something targeted like this I'd expect it to be much lower (<50%) the rate observed may be due to slow load times or landing page design or some other factor. There definitely seems to be some disconnect between expectations and what was found on the other side of the click.

Possibly someone that did a comparable launch on HN could give exact figures if they're willing to part with them then you could compare notes to see what works and what does not.

These can be tricky things to dig up, sometimes eye tracking is a solution to figure out where the disconnect is. There was a HN start-up working in this field (GazeHawk) but they've been acquired by facebook.

Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by holgersindbaek on Saturday October 27, 2012 @12:54PM (#4706546)
Saw it last week as well. Looks nice. What do you use to make the content directly editable? A javascript library of some sort?
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by marccantwell on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:08PM (#4706582)
We use http://imperavi.com/redactor/ as our wysiwyg editor, HTML5 data attributes, js, and a bunch of server-side engineering.
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by TallboyOne on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:10PM (#4706592)
Do you have a ruby gem?
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by marccantwell on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:14PM (#4706607)
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by TallboyOne on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:19PM (#4706622)
well I'm sold. I'm not sure if this is a recent thing but I remember the first time I saw this link I didn't see ruby so I just closed it without really digging. Perhaps that should go up there with your list of supported platforms.

Great work.

Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by neya on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:02PM (#4706568)
Looks like you've turned that Sign-up button to green from black...kudos guys :)
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by marccantwell on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:08PM (#4706584)
Thanks.
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by yakshaving on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:10PM (#4706590)
Nice! this is a cool service, pretty excited to see it taking off
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by damniatx on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:42PM (#4706690)
nice luck you got there, no one responding my Ask HN. :(
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by marccantwell on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:51PM (#4706718)
I added a comment. Good luck!
Re:Our Show HN post results, 1 week later by damniatx on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:59PM (#4706742)
Thank you