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Re:Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for? on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:15AM (#11174134)
Hey there! Thank your for your feedback!

Are you seeing errors on your website or peekin.io? There are a lot of console error on peekin.io that are due to the html being sandboxed and there is no way around that.

Otherwise I can take a look :)

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As for the product itself: I'm not sure—are you saying you'd use it to watch your user "proactively" or when they ask for support?

Thank you!

Re:Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for? on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:09AM (#11174113)
I get what you're saying—I guess what I'm trying to understand is whether a regular user has an unspoken expectation that browsing or using a web app is "private"--in which case that expectation is already broken most of the times by usage of analytics and, less often by session recording tech--or whether it is like walking in a store: no one is bothering you but you know that there's someone that might be seeing what you are doing, and if you stand in front of an item long enough someone is gonna come over asking if you need any help.

Apps like intercom already allow you to specify "triggers" so that when the user does something you can send them a message. I'm not sure how many people actually realize that it is an automated message.

Re:Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for? on Thursday February 25, 2016 @07:53AM (#11174047)
By the way, what I meant with scalability is that if you have up to say 10-15 users at a time you can keep track of them easily, if it's more you either need more people or the whole monitoring station becomes worthless
Re:Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for? on Thursday February 25, 2016 @07:48AM (#11174024)
Thank you for your opinion!

Regarding it being creepy—I'm not sure how I see it myself.

In a way it's a lot more creepier that advertising companies know your tastes and have a shitload of info about you--sometimes more than you do.

At the end of the day we only track the HTML the site owner provides in the first place, and stuff like mouse movements within the page, without it ever being recorded.

On the other hand, I agree that the fact that you "see" the page being used and not just collect metadata could be deemed very creepy.

Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for?

Hey there!Over the past month I built a service that allows you to see your users browse your website / web app in real time. It's kinda like "session recording" offered by various services, but live, mainly to offer support.To make it easier to market I built a Chrome extension that integrates it with Intercom and other live chat services, so that when someone chats you up you can see their...

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Hey everyone, I created a tool to personalize a webpage with geolocational data using only HTML.

You can do things like showing / hiding content based on the location of the user, or incorporate their location into a headline or text, with an elegant, ruby-looking syntax.

I would love some feedback :)

Re:Show HN: Little tool to find prospect's email address on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:44AM (#9093774)
Sorry for downtime. Currently resizing server.
Re:Show HN: Little tool to find prospect's email address on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:07AM (#9093646)
If it produces an email it is pretty accurate. It checks various possibilities, and returns the valid ones. If only one is returned you can be pretty sure it is a valid email. You can use the social links to see if the email is associated to a facebook / twitter account.

It does check that the domain is not "catch-all", or that it doesn't simply ignore our queries.

Sorry about that—I don't know how it ended up here but it was meant for another thread.
Re:Downtime Calculator: The real cost of downtime on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @08:41AM (#8762230)
It's not working for me on Chrome.
It's not working for me on Chrome..
Re:Show HN: Random Airports on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:34AM (#8761925)
This would make a great screensaver!