[ghc]

Okay, I'll go for it. I'm very curious to see how the traffic will compare to Hacker News. Yesterday I put a link to my company (http://algorithmic.ly) in a comment and the response was overwhelming. I've heard that traffic from different sources can behave drastically differently in terms of conversions, and HN is notoriously bad with conversions, so I wonder how it will compare.

[d0m]

HN is only good when it hits the front-page..

[gabrielrotbart]

Going to hijack and tell you that you've got all the right buzzwords to get me interested but I still have no idea what you're offering from the landing page.

So much so as to dissuade me from signing up (to what?)

[ghc]

Thank you! I'm glad someone finally agrees with me. I keep getting overruled on this point, but I wanted to put an interactive product demo on the landing page.

Algorithmic.ly is a simple service for certain kinds of algorithms without needing to manage the infrastructure. So if you're building, say, an e-commerce site, and you want to add a feature that adds a "people who bought this item also bought these" presentation box onto each page, you can use Algorithmic.ly to build a data model, choose the "item similarity" algorithm to continuously run on your model, and then use Algorithmic.ly's REST API to push data into the model and query results from the algorithm.

I hope that help explain it, and I hope someday I'll get to build a cool interactive demo into the landing page :). For now, the conversion statistics are not helping my case for putting more on the landing page.

[gabrielrotbart]

Guess I'm in the minority that likes to know what they sign up for.

Thanks for a solid explanation.

[easymode]

Hi, I'm trying to manage lots of things right now. Kind of overwhelmed. But I just approved your request.

Would be real cool if you share what kind of traffic you got from there in a day. Thanks!

[ghc]

The traffic to http://algorithmic.ly has been outstanding. I think your site just put us over the top. We have gotten more signups than we know what to do with. I'll have to write up a post about it.

[girvo]

I'm glad you did: I'd love to talk to you, what you're doing is exactly what I'm looking for for my startup right now!