| Pretty slick
Thanks very much for the reply and compliment.
| too bad you submitted during the rush when no one will notice it.
I submitted it at that time on purpose (after lunch in the UK, morning in the US) hoping that was a good time for maximum exposure. Too bad I don't understand when and why to submit.
| The main concern for me is not that you differentiate from other services, per se, but that you tell me why I should not just do it myself. I could, e.g., write a couple ruby modules that select between the features in a Rails app, and then run a really simple Hadoop job over the logs, could I not? It's not obvious to me how your service is fundamentally different.
The difference is you don't have to "write a couple ruby modules". Copy and paste your HTML variations and you're done. I agree that it's not hard to do A/B testing on your own, but I make it easier, even if not by much.
| If you offer things like detailed analytics tools (what browsers people are using, time-of-day breakdown, etc.), then you should say so.
I don't yet. It's an MVP. I will the future.
| By not demonstrating that you are awesome at what you do, your take-away message is that you make something that is simple to begin with, simpler
I wouldn't say it's simple. It's not hard, but not quite simple. Although, I agree that I'm not offering much beyond "I'll do it myself" at the moment.
The whole point of hacking it together and putting on HN was to see if there's interest in pay-as-you-go, simple (as in no visual editor) A/B testing tool.
My target audience is mostly starups where (for example) a designer comes up with a few designs for a button; using Simple as A/B they can copy-and-paste their different HTML versions and quickly get a test up and running.
| Other than that, good work. I dig the feel of the site very much
Thank you. By "the feel" do you mean design or functionality/concept?