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Opening this on desktop.. I'm not reading any of this.

Glancing in more I see react-native mentioned, and expo+expo go mentioned, but like... it's been proven time and time again that Hacker News isn't your ideal feedback loop (ie: Dropbox, AirBNB).

Why make 4 paragraphs of text when you could just say:

- We obliterated X problem: (link)

- We demonstrate why that problem is significant here: (public link or private deck)

- We are growing at X->(timeframe or whatever impressive metric)

Reach out if interested. Thanks. [[email protected]]

https://secondmeasure.com is like "counting cars in parking lots" on steroids.

This has a really good overview of the Multi-Armed bandit approach as it applies to testing and optimizations https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2844870?hl=en

However with the Multi-armed bandit approach it does make sense to re-consider that since it's a continuous optimization problem and the overall average conversion rate would be higher.

Thanks a lot for the feedback. This is a first pass implementation, but I agree that more thought should be put into the cutoff threshold, specifically for when there are only initially 2 (or maybe 3) variations.

We considered a weighted decision approach but 1) were turned off by posts like http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/multi-a... and 2) wanted to keep moving parts to a minimum for V1.

Any thoughts?

I replied with feedback on twitter.

Interacting with the map should hide the top and make the only thing scrollable in the viewport the map (with the "Your Alias" bar fixed at the top). Scrolling down causes you to zoom out when your mouse is over the map, which is a really bad experience.

When you scroll down, maybe the "Your Alias" bar has the BitBar logo on the left, and a metro-picker dropdown on the right. This would make the usability a lot cleaner, because it's hard to zoom into a city if you accidentally click on a bar, which slides up the Drink Picker.

There should also be a "Cancel" on the Drink Picker, that doesn't require you to click on the map, because clicking on the map puts the body scrollTop to 0.

There is a performance hit for this. Rendering the 40 markers in the provided demo takes roughly 7ms on my machine vs 25ms for the fake lake method.

The map, business logo, and people icons just help illustrate the feature. Volume and other value related benefits are communicated elsewhere in the page content, but aren't really additive to the blog post.

Yes, as I mentioned you have to actively go through and set that up which few take the time to do. It doesn't "just work".

The Album Leaf - their entire discography.

It's all instrumental and is somewhere in between Explosions in The Sky and Boards of Canada.

That's a reference to a previous satirical service we made, http://itsthisforthat.com

We created a similar service, http://hackerfollow.com

Completely unrelated to tech - photography and music I find interesting.

http://ishitbits.tumblr.com