[winslow]

I realize that the popup survey/newsletter box is the rage on literally every website (though I don't understand it as I find them annoying). It immediately turned me off to your website. I was watching your embeded youtube video and then all of the sudden your popup takes up my screen and interrupts my viewing of your about us video. Are you seeing a big engagement of this popup survey/newsletter? Are you keeping track of how many people immediately close it compared to filling it out?

If you are seeing a great amount of engagement from your visitors with the popup then please disregard me as I may be an outlier.

With that said, I think your website is a great idea and you executed well. I love the overall idea and the community is definitely there for this.

[smedawar]

Thanks for the feedback winslow!

Firstly, once someone closes the window, they don't see the pop-up for at least another 2 months. We hope this cuts down on the annoyance factor.

We are seeing pretty good engagement and tracking the numbers. Our bounce rate for July 3rd (the day we hit HN front page) was <0.3%. I mention this day specifically for a couple reasons: 1. We had significant traffic and sample size for that day 2. 92+% of our traffic was from new users (the only ones who would see the pop-up)

We've only been using the box for a couple of weeks and will keep monitoring the numbers and the comments.

Thanks for your kind words!