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GazeHawk
Company blog · gazehawk.com/blogdesignbusiness
GazeHawk is the company blog at gazehawk.com, writing about design and business. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments mostly name GazeHawk, a webcam eye-tracking company, or cite its heatmap and attention posts as sources. Few comments address the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
GazeHawk provides affordable quality eye tracking services. Use it to see what your users are looking at on your site. Improve conversions, increase usability, and measure ad spot quality.
Most-linked posts?
- /8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-10-04
- /tester/signup/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Commercial use: http://www.gazehawk.com/ Some open source: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gazetrackinglib/
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on “Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available”Submitted What everyone should know about the human eye as a story · 274 points
HN discussionGazeHawk (YC funded) is, but the software isn't open. http://www.gazehawk.com/
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on “Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available”Submitted Don't Get Burned By Heatmaps as a story · 87 points
HN discussionGazeHawk is hiring interns and full-timers in Mountain View. We're looking for both web developers & computer vision/machine learning folks. Webdev description: http://www.gazehawk.com/jobs/ CV/ML description: smart person with exposure to ML and a strong desire to expand on it. We're also looking for a blogger/statistics intern. Come run cool ET studies and then write about them! Email address is in my profile: sen…
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on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)”Submitted Experienced Users View Reddit Differently as a story · 85 points
HN discussionMountain View, CA. GazeHawk. http://www.gazehawk.com/jobs/ Looking for super awesome hire #1.
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)”Submitted PHP "require" Performance as a story · 81 points
HN discussionEngineer and/or UX - Mountain View, CA We're GazeHawk, we're solving difficult challenges with data visualization and eye tracking, looking for a web developer (our first hire). http://gazehawk.com/jobs/
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on “Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)”Submitted How do people look at Apple’s movie trailers page? as a story · 71 points
HN discussionMountain View, CA GazeHawk (YC S10) Web Engineer, second hire Full description at http://gazehawk.com/jobs/ Long story short: we do cool things with Javascript!
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on “Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)”Submitted Beyond Heatmaps: Visualizing Eye Tracking Data as a story · 68 points
HN discussionYC invested in a company called 'GazeHawk', but they didn't make it (acquihire by facebook), the page is still up though. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-acquires-gazehawk-fo... http://www.gazehawk.com/
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on “Google buys Eyefluence eye-tracking startup”Submitted Eye Tracking vs. Mouse Tracking as a story · 67 points
HN discussionThey use their own computers and webcams, providing a much more natural environment for testing. That's one of the reasons we can offer such a low-cost service. If anyone is interested in being one of our users, sign up at https://www.gazehawk.com/tester/signup/
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on “GazeHawk (YC S10) Does Eyetracking With Web Cams”Submitted Gazehawk Team (YC S10) Joins Facebook as a story · 65 points
HN discussionGood point, we'll add some example links to the site. In the meantime: http://www.gazehawk.com/img/techcrunch-heatmap.png http://www.gazehawk.com/img/wakemate-heatmap.png We pay $2 for trying right now, $4 for actually completing, and $5 if you give us some incredibly insightful feedback or bug report. We may decrease this in the future, but we need to figure out our supply/demand curve first.
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on “GazeHawk (YC S10) Does Eyetracking With Web Cams”Submitted Where do users look first? as a story · 59 points
HN discussionVery impressive. They deserve to succeed for being so clever. But are there more samples/examples? I can't find any on the site. At $5 per site viewed, I hope the qualify the viewers! (oh wait it's " up to " $5) ( https://www.gazehawk.com/tester/signup/ )
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on “GazeHawk (YC S10) Does Eyetracking With Web Cams”Submitted Switching from SVN to Git: A Startup’s Perspective as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI'm flummoxed by this question. From what I see, AI is at the core of much of what's happening in Silicon Valley and in tech in general. But then, I'm also using semantic web tools in building a search engine for financial news at http://Newsley.com . Right now we're indexing and automatically categorizing 500 financial news articles a day. And, I'm really looking forward to adding on recommender systems and use som…
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on “Ask HN: So what's new in the world of A.I.?”Submitted Cluster analysis for concise results in eye tracking as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWhat calculations did you do? As cofounder of GazeHawk, I've written on different aspects of this topic previously [1, 2]. Is that information helpful / can you elaborate on your skepticism? [1] http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/on-accuracy/ [2] http://www.quora.com/GazeHawk/What-broad-computer-vision-tec...
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on “Don't Get Burned By Heatmaps”Submitted Our New Year’s Resolution For Hiring as a story · 33 points
HN discussionYou should, because I was wondering why experienced redditors seemed to be fixated on blank space according to this image: http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/redd... ...The two red hot-spots to the right and further down the page. Is it an emergent distortion because of the heat map? Is it an aggregate spot between the link above and the link below that ends up being significant? Do experienced…
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on “Experienced Users View Reddit Differently”Submitted GazeHawk (YC S10): On Accuracy as a story · 31 points
HN discussionGazeHawk is a YC startup that does eye tracking using webcams. More about it here: http://www.gazehawk.com/ Presumably they got a bunch of people who were willing to participate in the study, then showed them the same screenshot of Reddit and tracked their eyes using their technology.
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on “Experienced Users View Reddit Differently”Submitted Relentlessly focus on your customers: test usability. as a story · 21 points
HN discussionWe are!! Company Name: GazeHawk Company Size: 4 Company URL: http://www.gazehawk.com/ Position: (a) Web Developer or (b) Blogger Contact Email: jobs@gazehawk.com Skills Needed: (a) JS/Python/PHP or (b) either statistics or UX plus writing (basically you run cool eye tracking studies and blog about them). Both internships paid, open to possible full-time position after if you're interested.
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on “Ask HN: Summer Internships in the Bay Area?”Submitted What Else You Should Know About The Human Eye as a story · 16 points
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