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Just shipped Posterous support.

Yep, it's one of those kinks we'll iron out as this goes into more serious use.

It's true, but as this was a simple client-side only experiment I couldn't go into those depths. In the future, when the paid version is server-side we'll probably implement more intelligent aggregation, grouping and other stuff.

Agreed, it's really simple to create your own though.

This was a weekend project and started as a proof of concept that a timeline can be created completely on the client side. That's why don't get fooled by the occasional choking of our kiwi squeezer, it's just the APIs that are unstable.

Depending on the feedback we'll receive, we also have a business version in the works.

Yeah it's hardcoded, more, the OS X Lion takes it to the system level, by showing a location services activity in the menu bar when you do this.

Yep, sorry about that!

We've just fixed that (it was an outdated SDK file) with a direct link to our mobile dashboard, where developers can sign up themselves and get their apps running DoubleRecall in no time.

You're correct and this is done by design. We're not a security feature but a soft-monetization one.

99% of people aren't technical enough to go through any other way than retyping.

Depends on how you look at it I guess.

We're trying to relieve people of paying for small things, like reading articles or in-app purchasing new swords :)

You'll always have two options at least: - input the DoubleRecall - pay for the content

If you'll hate to type in, you'll be free to lash out your card.

People are willing to do to tremendous lengths just to get something for for free, especially in the case of in-app purchases in games and alike.

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder.

I think too many people went on a shopping spree and they cancelled the code.

I'm getting coupon code expired.

Some of the best books in the industry. +1 for Thinking and Learning and Behind Closed Doors.

It's a sad sad story. I love reading great content and I never had problems paying for great content.

I've been a subscriber to paid magazines/papers and I'll continue to be one to digital ones.

But I guess my kind is rare and of course the majority always wins.

Congratulations. Good luck on the interview :)

We use PHP/HipHop/Redis and nothing else. The server can do 1500req/sec.

The traffic today is about 30 users per hour without additional exposure. We'll do a proper PR campaign in a few days but have some user requests to implement right now.

It is also a story how these things should not be done. We locked ourselves out of HN with noprocrast when needed to answer the comments here.

Hey, this is the missing part of my cooking web app, centered around ingredients you have at home. This can become ultra powerful with some sort of an API. Is there any?

Should happen soon because people are attracted to power by nature. Let's wait and see what kind of valuation one HN karma point gets.

We're looking into it. Thanks for the good wishes.

Yep, I can reproduce the problem but I'm not aware what triggers it. Maybe the JS changing the iframe's src makes a new history record in Chrome.

I'll have to investigate this further.

Not sure I'm getting what you mean? Do you mean that the coupons take you on a new page?

This is due to human curiosity which in turn generates a pull effect.

We're completely aware of that, and really wish that we'd have a native speaker on hand :)

Just now we're pinging our old friend in NYC if she can lend a syllable or two.

I also think that unless you start getting crap deals, a thing like this should stick. Ordinary people <3 coupons and getting free somethings.

Free haircuts anyone?

I agree, nice tip. The tractor is waiting, just start popifying. ;)

Here's some background:

When developing new advertisement format, our team did a lot of data-mining and A/B testing to reveal unknown patterns in human behaviour. One of the patterns was that, if you put random badges on the edge of the screen, people will tend to click on them out of curiosity. If you put more coupons, they’ll click even more. And if you show them coupons only once in a while, the time pressure will make users click even more.

The resulting CTRs were dwarfing any other means of advertising. But beware, this behaviour only lasted as long as there were good deals hidden under coupon badges. Changing good deals to no deals would decrease coupon CTR for a whole site for weeks.

With promising CTR results, we wanted even more milk from a coupon, so we implemented a form for collecting emails for newsletter. The number of collected emails has again exceeded all expectations of our client. And, as if this is not enough good news from our tingling little coupon, niche and local websites are also reporting good physical conversion, meaning: people showing up in the stores with printed coupons.

So what is happening here?

A lot of curiosity and a big pull. Coupon badges basically generate a pull relationship with a customer, who is then more likely to engage with a coupon content.

Since all this sounds like a mouth-full and we can’t tell you exact statistics and our case studies, we give you popify.me

popify.me is the simplest version of coupons that you can test on your site and see it for yourself. You’ll prepare a coupon and put it on your site in a minute. There’s also a viral loop included for social media spread and some sweet statistics.