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Official Hotjar Site
Company blog · hotjar.com/blogstartupsbusiness
Official Hotjar Site is the company blog at hotjar.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2014, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Don’t Just Guess Your Users’ Behavior, Know It”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Hotjar as an example of session-recording and survey tools, citing its pricing page and the engineering post 'Scaling Hotjar's Architecture: 9 Lessons Learned'. Comments rarely judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Contentsquare, the global leader in digital experience analytics, has joined forces with Hotjar, the leading product experience insights platform in the midsize and SMB market.
Most-linked posts?
- Don’t Just Guess Your Users’ Behavior, Know It5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-09-04
- Essential guide to growing your SaaS startup4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-01
- Lessons Learned Scaling Hotjar's Tech Architecture3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-01
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-27
- How to Go to Market Quickly and Fail Fast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-31
- Why You Need More Than Passion to be Successful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-22
- Putting Our Core Values to Work: A Letter to Our Community2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-14
- User Interviews Come to Hotjar2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-16
What Hacker News says?
Too cheap. It seems extremely inexpensive. Even though it's not a direct comparison, look at https://www.hotjar.com/pricing/ (and switch to the "pay by month" pricing view)
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on “Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years”Submitted Why You Need More Than Passion to be Successful as a story · 152 points
HN discussionHonestly, this type of discussion is seriously irritating, because it implies that TikTok is doing something unique that other apps aren't doing. Just as the article demonstrates, many western countries do the exact same thing that TikTok does, except TikTok seemingly takes it one step further (probably because of shoddy programming). Applying geographic-based arguments to technology is just a bandaid. The problem n…
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on “See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser”Submitted Lessons Learned Scaling Hotjar's Tech Architecture as a story · 32 points
HN discussionLess companies are focusing on user level tracking because one single user is not a meaningful statistical group. Companies focusing on user level tracking today provide a different set of tools one might be used to and that can of course be compliant, see https://www.hotjar.com/ .
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted The Hotjar story (part 3): Tripling our revenue while growing our team+product as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAnd when browsers will protect users against activity recording without consent? For example Hotjar [1], I did a review [2] of the product a year ago and I could not believe the creepy surveillance level of this tool. For me, manually disable JS or install content blockers will not get mainstream appeal for the regular users who just want to browse the web (and didn't know that maybe are being recorded). This should…
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on “ Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code”Submitted 6 Lessons Learned as the Co-Founder of a €10M SaaS Startup (Hotjar) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLooks good in the Github Readme file, but having tested the docker-compose/pg setup via docker-compose I think you still have some work to do. A lot of things result in an error, or are not possible yet. E.g. I tried a simple example with A country table containing an iso-code and a name, and a company table containing a name and a country. Somehow I can not use the iso code in the company table, I am forced to use…
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on “Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative”Submitted How Hotjar measures and improves users experience year-round (with examples) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe trouble with 'guys' when referring to women - The English language doesn't offer many gender-inclusive alternatives, like the Spanish ustedes or the German ihr. With no good phrase for the plural of 'you,' the plural term 'guys' ended up evolving into the colloquial alternative to refer to a group of people, regardless of whether group members are male or female. However, Reuters Graphics explains that “people w…
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on “Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words””Submitted Introducing Incoming Feedback by Hotjar as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis is frankly terrifying and very ironic. Websites put so much effort into tracking every little thing about their users, from where they come from to what they do. Hotjar ( https://hotjar.com ) goes ahead and tracks mouse movements and now we even have crazy f-ed up startups like Peekmap ( https://peekmap.com ) that claim to predict eye gaze without the webcam. And yet they get pwned so easily. So much effort int…
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on “The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach”Submitted Hotjar has joined forces with Contentsquare as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere's lots of positive data eschewing the benefits of pursuing discipline as the master skill, because once you learn that you can learn to be disciplined at any skill you need, you can more effectively learn and do anything that needs to be done and get to the task of being successful towards your goals. Discipline to do what needs to be done will always beat constantly seeking motivation, because motivation impl…
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?”Submitted A list of resources that might help if you're new to remote work as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's not that clear-cut. If particular metrics of 'browsing habits' directly reflect health information, then it is not legal to collect and use these metrics unless very specific conditions are met (which generally can't be met in the generic third party advertiser case). Under GDPR, health data, among with some other categories, counts as especially protected data with much more stringent restrictions than the usu…
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on “Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'”Submitted Essential guide to growing your SaaS startup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI think it depends a bit on what type of feedback you're after. For quantitative feedback tools like hotjar.com's surveys can be quite effective ( https://www.hotjar.com/tour/#polls ). For qualitative data such as user interviews/calls the solution for most teams is either to spend a lot of time on find users to talk to and set up calls or to pay companies like usertesting.com for access to their panels. These tools…
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on “Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from users?”Submitted How to Go to Market Quickly and Fail Fast as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot a technical person here. I just check my personal site with this tool and see that is possible know that I use Google G Suite. Is no way to opt out this? I'm more vulnerable to an attacker, right? They can try to login to my account on gmail.com. I thought that for not using an email address like @gmail.com, etc. I had the advantage of hiding my login page XD Maybe I'm a bit paranoid. Sometimes I have the idea t…
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on “Show HN: A site to look up DNS records”Submitted Putting Our Core Values to Work: A Letter to Our Community as a story · 3 points
HN discussion1. I don't think it's necessarily a problem, or at least right now - but the EU is working on the concept of essential social services https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/a... which telecom is covered by. And then I believe the scandinavian countries might also be amenable to an essential services argument if a telecom says stop using our site to find out if there are service outages in your a…
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on “Rethinking front-end error reporting”Submitted The 10 lessons we learned launching (& killing) our $200K mobile app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHotjar [1] is based in the EU. You can also have a look at Europe Remotely [2] only remote jobs in Europe, and nodesk [3] is one of the few remote job boards where you can filter by remote location. Because remote doesn't always mean remote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] https://hotjar.com/ [2] https://europeremotely.com/ [3] https://nodesk.co/remote-jobs/
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on “Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?”Submitted The Essential Guide to Growing Your Early-Stage SaaS Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm curious, do the two of you consider privacy at any point when building this? Well done launching, it's a nice looking site and a good idea which should appeal to non-technical people who need to track visitors and what they read. I note you are using multiple tracking technologies, each of which have some Terms & Conditions you must conform to. Your embedded Google Analytics code carries the following condition,…
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on “Show HN: Track and Control Your PDFs”Submitted Show HN: Hotjar. See How Visitors Are Really Using Your Site – For Free as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOriginal post - https://www.hotjar.com/blog/9-lessons-we-learned-while-scali...
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on “Scaling Hotjar's Architecture: 9 Lessons Learned”Submitted Hotjar blocks its use on the Trump-Pence campaign merchandise website as a story · 2 points
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