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Show HN: Chrome recorder, GUI editor, and cloud service for PhantomJS tests

3 pointsby jwklemmabout 11 years ago

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cwingsabout 11 years ago
This is really really amazing. Good job!<p>Some feedback from someone who is also working on a subscription service based on cloud computing magic:<p>- Realistically, charging $20 - $40 a month means you&#x27;ll need a lot of customers to signup to make anything significant in revenue.<p>- Acquiring new customers might be difficult for this type of service because direct sales would be too costly to make a profit. You would definitely need to run ads to gain a large customer base.<p>- If you run ads you&#x27;d have to position it as an up-time monitoring service since the volume around searches for automated headless browser testing solutions isn&#x27;t going to be high. The cost of acquisition through marketing will be pricey especially since you offer a free plan that offers what most people would need.<p>- The Chrome extension is super cool and very impressive, but I think the average small business owner might be intimidated by all the javascripty things you throw at them on the landing page. A good tagline might be along the lines of &quot;Know when something breaks on your site&quot;<p>- You will spend a lot of time answering support emails.<p>- I can see this service really taking off if you find a way to bundle it with an eCommerce shopping cart. Maybe create a Magento plugin or Shopify app?