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by austenallred 4635 days ago
You asked me to give it to you straight.

Seems like a cool little widget, but I doubt the market for it would be big enough to be worth your time. It's a small enough of a problem that most people won't notice it, and if they do they could easily solve it themselves. People won't be looking for a solution, and it's not cool enough that people would share it just because.

As for your questions, your responses are way too long.

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Austenallred: Thanks for giving to me straight.

I think this seems like an "easy" thing to build in-house, but we believe getting this right will take a ton of time, which companies could put towards doing what they do best.

Here is what we have: 1. The rules engine, to track visitors and fine control who see's feature experiments and how often. 2. An analytics suite, to capture all data and show it in a form which is digestible and allows a PM to take action 3. Making overlays work cross browser and device. 4. Solution which requires absolutely no-code to get feedback on existing features. A gui where PM's can visually find features on their website, tap on them and configure them to ask for feedback.

I'm not questioning that it's hard to build as much as I am that people will go out of their way to get it. But best of luck to you, prove me wrong!
Thanks, austenallred. I'm not sure what you mean by "people will go out of their way to get it". Can you tell us more? I'd love to address that in our application.
hello there sandeep. this is peter. ;) keep on hackin!