[dustyreagan]

I was doing some usability testing in one of my webapps and needed a simple way to count conversions. There are lots of A/B testing solutions out there, but I just wanted a persistent count I could increment on specific user actions. So I created the ArbitraryCounter.com.

I find it useful, but I'm wondering if anyone else might. What do y'all think?

PS. This is WAY beta, and mainly a proof-of-concept. But I'll continue developing it if there's an interest it.

[PeterisP]

Perhaps POST requests would be more appropriate for incrementing/decrementing?

GET's may be either cached(skipped) or duplicated for various reasons, resulting in incorrect counts.

[ankurpatel]

Can someone explain how counters can be so hard to implement ourselves that we need to use this?

[terabytest]

It's probably not that they're hard, but rather that they might require some boilerplate code and bloat that somebody might want to offload to an external service like this one.

[dustyreagan]

The idea was to make something easier than booting up a database. Personally, I just needed a semi-persistent count that I could discard later. This fit the bill for me, and being able to retrieve the counts via JSON, I can easily add them to my Geckoboard dashboard.