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Show HN: Psychstudio – Create complex behavioral experiments without programming

6 pointsby psychstudioover 5 years ago

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psychstudioover 5 years ago
Hi, I&#x27;m Ben Howell, founder of Psychstudio. A while ago, I built a one-off custom web experiment for linguistic research because I couldn&#x27;t find any suitable web application that allowed me to build, host and execute such an experiment. To my surprise I found that it was almost impossible to build any novel online experiment on any existing platform without programming.<p>I trialed a few web-based experiment platforms that claim programming isn&#x27;t required, but as soon as I moved past simple demonstration experiments, I was forced to code (and yes, I consider markdown and writing lines of code in spreadsheets as programming).<p>So I interviewed experimental psychologists, and collected papers and experiment designs from colleagues, friends, advisers and other professionals. Having confirmed the need for a programming-free way to build and execute online experiments, I built Psychstudio to address the problem.<p>Tech-wise, the backend is Clojure and Postgresql, and the client-side is ClojureScript (reagent, re-frame, sente).<p>I&#x27;ve learnt a lot in my journey of bringing Psychstudio into the world, and the absolute rule of &quot;no programming&quot; for the end user has led to some surprising and powerful features (too many for this comment) that I otherwise would never have designed or built.<p>All feedback, advice and criticism is greatly appreciated.