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contrast.ie
Company blog · contrast.ie/blogstartupsdesign
contrast.ie is the company blog at contrast.ie, writing about startups and design. Since 2008, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “Web Analytics & Startups”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blog of the Irish consultancy Contrast, linked for posts on analytics products, dashboard design and SEO. Commenters point to its analytics-products overview and dashboard design post as useful reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Web Analytics & Startups5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2011-03-14
- Patience and hard work3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-28
- In web apps there are no small changes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-07-16
- Show HN: Intercom, get to know your users2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-01
- The Thickness of Napkins (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-07
- Are you good or just lucky?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-18
- Getting your users on-board - thoughts on Quora, Path.com, Instagram etc.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-05
- The Orange Juice Test - How to decide which consultants are worth hiring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-29
- Recall versus Recognition for Search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-10
- Evolution of a dashboard design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Awesome. I've been wanting to see this in analytics for a long time. Not because I would use it, but because I thought it made the most sense. I came across this article on HN a while back that seems to hint at the same thing: http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products... I believed it was such a necessity that I worked on building a MVP for about a year, but then gave it up a few months ago. The p…
Comment linking /blog/the-future-of-analytics-products/
on “Introducing Flow from Mixpanel”Submitted Designing your sign up page? Read this. as a story · 192 points
HN discussionIntercom's story has been a wonderful one to watch. They're a particular inspiration for those of us in Ireland; they've consistently aimed high, have set high standards for themselves, and generally raised the bar for Irish companies. Their blogging has been interesting since before Intercom was even incorporated (at their consultancy company, Contrast's[1], blog). They're also a bunch of smart, down to earth peopl…
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on “Intercom raises a Series B round of $23M”Submitted Competing with Apple - or "Never mess with your Landlord" as a story · 148 points
HN discussionHey guys, Thanks for the all the nice words about my post - if you enjoyed it, you'll probably enjoy our Contrast blog ( http://www.contrast.ie/blog ) Cheers, Des (@destraynor)
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on “Your Web App has Launched – Now What? ”Submitted Quality is Fractal, from restaurants to software. as a story · 102 points
HN discussionIs anyone else getting confused too? who did acquired who? On http://contrast.ie/ is stated Exceptional is acquired by Airbrake.io (Hoptoad). And here is state the opposite... will Exceptional continue to exist or Airbrake? Or Both?
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on “Airbrake acquired by Exceptional”Submitted On Communities and Content as a story · 97 points
HN discussionEven if Henry Ford did say that, it's still an if. i.e. Henry Ford did NOT ask his customers, at best he guessed at what they might respond. I wrote about this here: http://contrast.ie/blog/faster-horses (Which was previously picked up by HN)
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on “"My Customers Would Have Asked For a Faster Horse"”Submitted Web Analytics & Startups as a story · 76 points
HN discussionHey guys, If you're interested in the background of the product, read about here: http://contrast.ie/blog/product-launch-intercom/ We'd be interested to hear any thoughts.
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on “Scalable proactive customer communication that doesn't suck”Submitted Microsoft vs the Karate Kid as a story · 71 points
HN discussionLooks nice. Any chance of a screenshot, I'll include it here http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products...
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on “Show HN: ducksboard, a real time dashboard using websockets”Submitted Clear First, Clever Second — Wording your UI (with slidedeck) as a story · 54 points
HN discussionFor people who want a more detailed follow-up: http://www.contrast.ie/blog/seo-is-still-bullshit/
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on “SEO is bullshit”Submitted Don't build Swiss Army Knives - Find features that add value as a story · 50 points
HN discussionReference http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp http://www.html5rocks.com/ http://simon.html5.org/dump/html5-canvas-cheat-sheet.html http://diveintohtml5.org/peeks-pokes-and-pointers.html Tutorials http://diveintohtml5.org/ http://slides.html5rocks.com http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial Demos http://html5demos.com/ http://studio.html5rocks.com/ http://lab.simur…
Comment linking /blog/speeding-up-with-modernizr/
on “Ask HN: Any HTML5 dabblers?”Submitted Advice for start-ups : You're just getting started as a story · 49 points
HN discussionPeople have been suggesting this design is some sort of mistake. I don't think so: 1. Email notifications have a very high value for Quora - they drive users back to the site. 2. A fair number of users unsubscribe by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the footer of emails 3. This design ensures users clicking this link will only ever unsubscribe from a subset of email notifications. This way, users end up with an in…
Comment linking /blog/getting-your-users-on-board/
on “Quora's Notification Settings ”Submitted Getting your users on-board - thoughts on Quora, Path.com, Instagram etc. as a story · 45 points
HN discussionAwesome post: http://www.contrast.ie/blog/evolution-of-a-dashboard-design
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on “Ask HN: Develop your own dashboard for metrics - yes or no?”Submitted No reply is better than no-reply as a story · 43 points
HN discussionNot pimping , but my post on this exact topic was recently on Hacker News , http://contrast.ie
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on “Ask HN: Develop your own dashboard for metrics - yes or no?”Submitted SEO is bullshit as a story · 40 points
HN discussionOf course your analytics figures will keep going up. They were never frozen, you could always see "The very latest data that Google has processed". The key word here is "processed". Depending on your site, and GA, there will always be some delay. i.e. if I visit your site now, My visit gets recorded with GA. GA processes this as quick as it can. Once it has processed it, (And then updated all its corresponding data…
Comment linking /blog/the-future-of-analytics-products/
on “Google Flips Switch on Real Time Analytics”Submitted The formula for success as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSorry to leave you hanging on the metrics, here's a great resource: http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products... Also, with a Rails app, be sure to give http://gaug.es/ a whirl.
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on “Rate my startup: Holono, showcase your projects and build a portfolio”Submitted Patience and hard work as a story · 37 points
HN discussionAs suggested in previous reply http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products... has good information about different analytics systems. But if your business growth depends on analytics then investing into home grown analytics solution would be a good strategy. Investing in a home grown analytics system not only provide flexibility in gathering any kind of analytics for your web app but also lay the gr…
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on “Ask HN: Live Analytics for a Webapp?”Submitted A considered look at using Data Visualisation and Infographics as a story · 36 points
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