Observer (Node.js KO 2011) - Observe and learn from your visitors in real time

http://observer.no.de/

by TheCoreh • 15 years ago

37 18 15 years ago

observer.no.de

peregrine• 15 years ago

Really awesome idea! I cannot seem to click any of the links on my phone though.

ga2arch• 15 years ago

Really nice, gonna check this out

mgkimsal2• 15 years ago

Seems to be way too slow to be useable right now. Did you get "knocked out"? ;)

My JS says

Is 'undefined' correct? Seems wrong. :(

V16• 15 years ago

I'm currently experiencing some scalability issues as you might have noticed. The machine I deployed on is limited to 128mb. But Joyent is actively resolving it.

You can try going to http://observer.no.de/sign-in to sign in again and see if that resolves your issues.

If not just create a new account :p

mgkimsal2• 15 years ago

logging in from a different browser made it work - the 'undefined' was there right after I'd created an account.

mino• 15 years ago

I guess you're being "slashdotted", the site is very slow...

*bookmarking and i'll check on later, i'm curious.

krmmalik• 15 years ago

Yeah, i really wanted to see this in action, but i guess your site is getting a lot of traffic at the moment.

V16• 15 years ago

My apologies for that, My Node Knock Out entry wasn't really expecting that much traffic :p

maxjaderberg• 15 years ago

Looks nice. You need to clean up the homepage blurb though and there are just a few spelling errors (changed sections are in italics):

Observer allows you to follow and observe your website visitors in real time. Ever wondered what they were clicking on or how they are navigating on your website? Then Observer is ideal for you, it's a 1 script installation and you are done.

V16• 15 years ago

Hey,

Thanks for pointing out my grammer mistakes. English isn't my native language so I was hoping that vim's build in spelling check would fix most of the issues.

I have corrected the spelling mistakes and they should appear online soon when the cache expires. (luckily I decided to build in a small mongodb driven cms during the contest so I could fix these silly mistakes)

boucher• 15 years ago

Hmm. Sounds familiar: http://observerapp.com/

V16• 15 years ago

Yes I noticed that as well, but I found that the name observer really suited this service. But I'm still searching for alternate names to avoid potential confusion.

cynusx• 15 years ago

These is a great way to analyze site usability with real customers, I hope you plan to keep this alive after node.js KO?

V16• 15 years ago

Yes I plan to continue development of this application after the competition, there are still some rough edges that needs to be fixed. So I see this a great working prototype to iterate on.

I still have some amazing ideas planned :)

jsean• 15 years ago

I'd freak out if that second example from the feature-list would happen to me while I was browsing some site. "Hello I see you are having issues finding the 'free account' button?" ... "are you spying on me?"

edit: ok, maybe not "freak out" but i'd certainly feel at unease. Specially if it was a site enabling some form of PIM/im/private-ish activity.

cyphersanctus• 15 years ago

This is really incredible. Im testing it out with my sites and this is groundbreaking. Expect great things V1, im almost speechless. I need a guy like you on my startup!!!

Zishan• 15 years ago

I clicked around, but could not work the demo. Will try again later.

Also, just FYI: http://www.clicktale.com

Observer (Node.js KO 2011) - Observe and learn from your visitors in real time

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