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Show HN: Instant click tests for visual interfaces (usaura.com)
4 points by fadeyev 5459 days ago
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New project I'm working on. Wanted to make a site that's as simple as an image uploader or a code paster, but for click testing. You upload a screenshot of your interface and ask people to click somewhere. The app will generate a heatmap of the clicks, as well as show you how long they took.

Would love any feedback or suggestions. Also: would you find a tool like this useful? Would you pay for it given more functionality? Cheers.

I saw this on reddit yesterday. I love the simplicity, and I see you've been changing some parts of the UI today (which looks very nice). It's a very useful tool. We've been messing around with it at work throughout the day, and everyone's liked it so far.

My only question is how do you pronounce the name? Since I can't settle on a pronunciation, the name is not too memorable for me as of right now.

As for the pay options, it really depends on how much you plan to charge, and what features would be provided in the paid version. Overall, it is a really useful tool and my coworkers and I will definitely be using it for our projects.

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you're finding it useful.

Name should be pronounced like "Use Aura" but without a gap. It's a play on the word Aura, combined with User, or Usability, as the heatmap is a bit like an aura.

There are a couple of angles I see for a paid version:

1) Beef up the features by adding more tests types (e.g. a preference test like: "Which do you like more: A or B?" -- like a poll but visual) and more customisation (e.g. ability to chain tests together, easy way to compare test performance for iterations, priority in the public test pool etc.).

2) Hook it up to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and basically get instant outsourced testers. Perhaps you can even do some demographic filtering here, although I don't have any experience with Amazon Turk yet. This option can probably tie in with 1) since the single page tests right now are probably too simple to pay for--you'll want to get more value out of each one, so getting a chain of tests with comments will make more sense.