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GoSquared
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GoSquared is the company blog at gosquared.com, writing about web and business. Since 2009, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 63 times, most often “GoSquared Redesign”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link GoSquared mainly as a product example (real-time visitor tracking in analytics) and for its free icon packs and resources; the linked posts cover a Leap Motion demo and analytics metrics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- GoSquared Redesign2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-14
- Redesigning the Login Screen2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-16
- Playing around with the Leap Motion Controller on the web [video]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-01
What Hacker News says?
Nice example of someone adding a leap motion controller to their site, GoSquared: https://www.gosquared.com/blog/playing-around-with-the-new-l... I'm not going to argue this demonstrates utility, but it does show some good recognition of smaller gestures.
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on “Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless”Submitted Free Flag Icons as a story · 304 points
HN discussionWe get a lot of questions at GoSquared ( https://gosquared.com ) as to why their engagement metrics (and visitor counts) are so different between GA and GoSquared. Pinging all visitors to check their still online is our solution, rather than making a guess/estimate - this means that sometimes GA reports about 10 visitors online when there are actually more like 100. This is especially true with HN posts where most p…
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on “0 second visits according to Google Analytics”Submitted Login Screen – behind the scenes as a story · 121 points
HN discussionGoSquared has some excellent icon packs. You can view them all here: https://www.gosquared.com/resources/
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on “Free SVG and PNG Icons Easily Customizable For Games”Submitted WebGL 3D Globe to visualize real-time site traffic as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSome other icon sets (probably appeared on HN before, don't know where I got them from): flags: https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons user interface: https://www.gosquared.com/resources/165-vector-icons and http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
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on “Free SVG and PNG Icons Easily Customizable For Games”Submitted Node.JS Help Sheet as a story · 55 points
HN discussionOS X Sierra (10.12) adoption chart https://www.gosquared.com/global/mac/sierra/#beta Looks like people are split 30/30/30 between the last three versions with many holdouts. Things look way better in iOS land (76% on latest version): https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/
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on “Desktop Operating System Market Share”Submitted OS X Mavericks adoption pushing past 7% in under 24 hours as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI've been using GoSquared for this and it has been working really well: http://www.gosquared.com/ It will be interesting to see how the new Google Analytics features compare. If they offer a GoSquared style API, that would be pretty fantastic.
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on “Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?”Submitted Why all of your team members need access to real time analytics as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI was about to say the same thing... not only are there no images, but there is a such an overwhelming amount of text and bullet points on the "About" and "Feature" pages. This looks more like documentation and less like a product landing page. Here are some nice examples that might help: http://land-book.com/ https://www.gosquared.com/ (pulled from the first page of land-book)
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on “Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)”Submitted Superior Support as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI think GoSquared ( http://gosquared.com ) have something of this flavour of interaction as well.
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on “Show HN: Requesting feedback on my side-project chatteranalytics.com”Submitted The best damn Olympic infographic ever as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoSquared launches new dashboard for real-time analytics as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoSquared Developer API & some cool projects as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoSquared Redesign as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Tips to Increase Engagement on Your Site as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating the Kinesis demo at AWS re:Invent 2013 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsercons as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infographic - web traffic during the London Riots as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoSquared introduces Real-time Visitor Analytics as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redesigning the Login Screen as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Black Friday: Up to 90% off GoSquared as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoSquared uses Notion (inc. 10 SaaS templates to clone) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Metrics 101 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graphing London 2012 - An Interactive Infographic as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real-Time Web Analytics and Complying with EU Cookie Laws as a story · 4 points
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