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by dhaivatpandya 3995 days ago
Fantastic product idea and a landing page that's so good that I figured out what the product does without touching my scroll wheel.

I wish however, you'd include a section that provides a reasonable explanation as to why Workroom got a 950% increase in traffic. I'm thinking that if I saw that a place was full, I'd be less likely to head over there. But, if I didn't know, I'd probably give it a whirl. Alternatively, if I've gone there a bunch of times and it's always been full, I just wouldn't go. What exactly is happening?

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I think the idea would be that this helps fill dead times. If the place is full, they don't need/want more people showing up just to be turned away. If the place is empty, then they want to advertise that to fill it back up.

Also though, I think it was a 950% increase in traffic to the web pages powered by this product, not to the actual locations.

Right, the increase was on the webpages that included Density to show seating capacity.
I also find this particularly confusing/misleading - since you deal mainly with physical locations (often called sites by owners), using the word "site" instead of "web traffic" seems odd. Also, listing a web based metric as large as 950% without any type of time interval really kills the true significance of that metric.
My favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up.

My 2nd favorite: 950% of 0 is 0.

Oh, that wasn't clear at all.
Yeah. We could and will clear that up.
Is that sustained website growth since then? Also can you make that distinction clearer on the site? It's definitely misleading some people.