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Founder here! Several years back we focused solely on our data content marketing agency referenced in this post. We produce content, but isn't the sort of stuff that's going to end up on hacker news.

Thanks for checking it out. The use case is blogging and content marketing. That's what we use it for at least.

Thanks for the feedback. We genuinely aren't sure of the pricing in the future, so your feedback is pretty fair.

Most likely what you see here will be free for the foreseeable future. If there is a paid version, it would be geared more toward commercial usage (high traffic visualizations with company branding, more advanced visualizations, etc).

You can also download your charts or export your data easily anytime.

Sorry, that was my bad fiddling around with the title. Corrected it.

Priceonomics | Staff Writer | San Francisco

The Priceonomics Blog is hiring writer #5 to join our staff. We're looking for data-driven people who are curious about the world.

Details here:

http://priceonomics.com/the-case-for-joining-the-priceonomic...

I work at Priceonomics, so maybe I can shed light on our motivations.

We make the kind of content we love and we sell products so that we can afford to make more of that content. The two products we actually sell (data crawling for companies and books for people) aren't particularly well-suited toward SEO (though our original idea, a Price Guide which we killed years ago, was).

Anyhow, we're a content site that's trying to get by without using ads. I think most of our regular readers appreciate we're trying to pay the bills by selling things instead using ads. We'd like to avoid jamming our site with advertising if that's possible.

Happy to answer any questions you have.

Thanks for the feedback! Right now the Social analyzer pulls how many people shared that one specific page on FB (or liked it or comment it), rather than how many followers a Page has or Users an FB App has. We could add that per your suggestion though.

We currently use it to see how popular various articles are on the web since FB likes is a good proxy for overall traffic. FB like are public whereas page views typically aren't.

Don't feel bad about the joke, that's how we think of ourselves too (I work at Priceonomics). I think it's actually an interesting advantage versus a content site that just thinks of themselves as a content site.

Hi, I work at Priceonomics so I can sort of answer your question.

The blog posts we do that use data crawled from the web pay off enormously in terms of generating leads and revenue for our data business. Here's an example.

http://priceonomics.com/the-seo-dominance-of-retailmenot/

The rest of the blog posts are done because we want to make them. In the past, there wasn't any direct financial payoff from them. Now, it seems like they lead to book sales which is neat.

Hi there, I work at Priceonomics. Thanks for the suggestions. We'll probably do a blog post about our marketing strategy of this book, but I wanted to address your point that the book had reviews as soon as it launched on Amazon. How is that even possible?

Many people had advanced copies of various drafts of the book. When the book went live this morning we emailed all of them letting them know it was up there. Hence people (all of whom are regular readers of our blog and seem to like us) could review it even though the book was only just released. Hope that clears up your questions!

BTW, do you have any data on the optimum pricing of an ebook being $2.99-4.99? I would love to see it.

Well, when debt is involved, prices doubling is a big deal! Prices going down 10% is a big deal too though.

You made a mistake in your calculation because you ignored leverage. Most people buy a house using some combination of equity and debt (usually 20% / 80%).

You need to calculate the return based on the equity invested. Assuming they paid 20% down that's $125K. The house appreciated $773K over the initial purchase price. That's a 6x return on equity, not a 2x.

But thanks for the lecture about how other people don't understand inflation / math.