psychstudio

Thanks trez, I've did a lot of face to face in the early days but you're right, almost everything is digital now.

I feel as if I burnt through everyone available during development, testing and beta and there's no one left within my network reach and so content, social and SEO are really all I have left right now.

I have to agree. I agonised over the design of our landing page but eventually came to the same conclusion.

Plain text that gets as many selling points into the eyes of the visitor above the fold is what I believe is the most sensible route if you're debating bit to design your landing page.

I'll add sente (websockets) and s3-beam (direct upload to s3 from browser) to the list.

Hi, I'm Ben Howell, founder of Psychstudio. A while ago, I built a one-off custom web experiment for linguistic research because I couldn't find any suitable web application that allowed me to build, host and execute such an experiment. To my surprise I found that it was almost impossible to build any novel online experiment on any existing platform without programming.

I trialed a few web-based experiment platforms that claim programming isn't required, but as soon as I moved past simple demonstration experiments, I was forced to code (and yes, I consider markdown and writing lines of code in spreadsheets as programming).

So I interviewed experimental psychologists, and collected papers and experiment designs from colleagues, friends, advisers and other professionals. Having confirmed the need for a programming-free way to build and execute online experiments, I built Psychstudio to address the problem.

Tech-wise, the backend is Clojure and Postgresql, and the client-side is ClojureScript (reagent, re-frame, sente).

I've learnt a lot in my journey of bringing Psychstudio into the world, and the absolute rule of "no programming" for the end user has led to some surprising and powerful features (too many for this comment) that I otherwise would never have designed or built.

All feedback, advice and criticism is greatly appreciated.

That article is a bit off the mark.

Here's a rebuttal: https://blog.turkerview.com/writer-who-never-learned-to-driv...