ebzlo

Sorry, I suppose I should have just linked to the landing page at the end of the article there (now amended).

Taurus allows users to create product tours using just a few lines of JS, the bookmarklet loads the tool onto the demo page.

I once started at a job where their last programmer had just quit. When I started, my new boss explained to me that I had to check out files by telling him which ones I needed and we updated the production server with me emailing him the modified files.

I set up SVN the first day.

On the contrary, I think icons have become indicative of actionable text or a button. Just today there was an article on HN that criticized Windows 8 of being too minimalistic-- it was hard to understand at first glance what was merely a label versus an actual button.

And in the real world, icons, symbols, or colors help users immediately understand how to use something (while driving, I would stop at a red octagon even if it didn't explicitly say STOP).

I don't misplace my wallet enough to warrant an extra 3.8mm. In fact, I classify losing your wallet as a minor annoyance for most people than anything else (I've certainly never been as upset as the man in the video).

If people were really concerned about misplacing wallets, designs like these (http://i.imgur.com/FnOtD.jpg) would have taken off.

Mandarin speaker here. I'm more impressed that it was able to reconstruct the sentences properly (where traditional translation tools typically fail). The output was fine. Obviously doesn't sound like a human speaker, but the tones are correct.

Sure thing. The problem we're attempting to address is not necessarily the HTML/CSS/Javascript component of creating a tooltip, but rather the creation of a system and its continued maintenance.

When we hand rolled our own product tour code for a previous project, what we quickly learned was that maintenance was a nightmare. As soon as layouts updated or changed, editing the tooltips we had created already was tedious.

We, however, have plans for other features that we think could really add a lot more value. So if you don't see it now, perhaps later on when we roll them out.

Will do. :)

Thanks for the kind words. :)

We've given the popups the ability to trigger JS events and we will be adding the ability to trigger popups with JS events as well.

Could you send me an email (ebzlo@ebzlo.com)? I'd be more than happy to send you an invite immediately if we could work together on making this work for you, single page apps are definitely something we want to be viable for.

Edit: Bunker looks really cool. If I start freelancing again, I might just have to try it out. ;)

This is pretty cool. We're less intensive than this, but we try to make the whole product tour setup very WYSIWYG. From what I saw, they do a neat job of delivery the full product-tour-package, but at the cost of engineering effort.

No problem! Will do. :)

Split testing sounds like a really neat idea! We'll talk about working that in later down the line. :)

When we worked on a previous project, bootstrap was something we based our product tour off. Joyride, similarly, accomplishes the same deal with a little more fluff. However, there were a few things that were tedious.

- Keeping track of who has seen what tooltip, when they should show up, backend type stuff.

- When things moved around, layouts modified slightly, they were a pain to update. Granted it wasn't always the case, but it was enough that we decided we ought to build a front end to handle it. And thus, Taurus was born.

We realized that while engineering the product tour isn't hard, it takes time to make and maintain, and that we could help solve that.

Alright. Done. I'm setting at $9. Updated now.

Great suggestions! # of steps included is something we haven't thought to implement, will do!

No offense taken. Everybody here is completely right. We're going to change our pricing as soon as we step out of our closed beta.

Thanks! We'll look into those issues; additionally, we'll be adding a bind to element feature in the future.

This was originally in our plan for beta launch, but we yanked it to get something out faster. It's definitely in the pipeline. :)

This is great (and flattering). We're definitely going back to the drawing board in regards to how we price this thing.

Okay, you all have convinced me. Back to the drawing board on that.

Send me an email, I'll be sure something comes your way when we launch.

ebzlo@ebzlo.com

Cheapest? Or most?

Edit: Based on what everyone else is saying, I've assumed you indeed meant to say cheapest.

Thanks!

Thanks!

The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.

Ah shoot. Haven't heavily tested outside of Chrome. I'll check it out, thanks!

Edit: Fixed the issue. Looks like just a small problem with the bookmarklet. Pushing it up now. :)

Thanks! If you create some tooltips on the page and refresh the page, you kind of get a feel of what it would be like for a visitor (though "Hide" won't permanently hide the tooltips in that state).

Thanks!

Done! http://taurus.io

Ah thanks, just fixed! Looks like something weird got pushed live.

Definitely. Working on that now. In fact, we're going to have a trial period when beta launches (or just make the whole thing free during beta).