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Survata (YC S12) replaces paywalls with "surveywalls"

64 点作者 ckelly超过 12 年前

13 条评论

MetalMASK超过 12 年前
No.<p>You probably don't need a degree in experimental psychology to understand that forced recruitment gives you invalid/biased/low quality data. These surveys are annoying to the users; more importantly, the data provided has little if at all value to the organization behind the survey. No matter how well you design your survey.<p>I don't even want to start on how bad/biased some surveys are designed.<p>The only way the survey business is still in business is because it is so distant from the revenue. If your ad campaign doesn't boost sale, you pull your ad away. Bad survey's uselessness are not so explicit so people still trust that "something can be gained".<p>No, stop creating useless data from online user. If you want insights on usage, do analytics on server logs. If you want feedback on user experience, do a serious experiments and plan to spend some ten thousand bucks on it.
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dm8超过 12 年前
Interesting idea. Google is already doing this (<a href="http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home</a>) and they have solid relationship with big publishers. Question to founders - 1. How are you different from Google? 2. As a UX person, I'm not sure what sort of data I will get from these surveys. Is there anyway you can maintain the quality of responses? I assume in most of the cases users will give dummy data for the sake of getting away from surveys.
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Ataraxy超过 12 年前
This has been done to death in the incentive based affiliate marketing world for some years now.<p>The quality of data that will be generated from these surveys is going to be extremely poor and I would be interested in seeing how they're able to sustain advertisers (market researchers).
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DanBC超过 12 年前
This seems like a really neat idea. I'd be happy to do a <i>short</i> (20 second) survey to get access to content. I'd much prefer to do a short survey than watch some of the pointless stupid annoying ads that Youtube is giving me at the moment. And there's little chance of me taking year subs for all the sites I read maybe once a week.<p>Survata should be aware that any longer than that, or poor content hidden behind the survey-wall, means that I'm likely to just click random options on the survey. But I'm sure they are.<p>Good Luck to them!<p>Really, someone 'just' needs to fix micropayments.
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vasco超过 12 年前
This is just content locking with lipstick on, which was up until now among tactics such as cloaking and keyword stuffing, at least in my view. Hopefully they'll make it less scammy. If I could just do a 1min survey to access premium content that would be fine, but my fear is that I would have to go through 1min surveys for stuff that I now get for free.
jjacobson超过 12 年前
People hate taking surveys. The only reliable way to get data out of people in survey form is to ambush them on the phone or in person and pressure them into answering some questions for you. And even then, the data has to be filtered appropriately. Paywalls and most online polls are the wrong place to ask people serious questions.
endianswap超过 12 年前
I think it's a great idea, especially in lieu of a paywall, but I honestly can't think of that many websites that have paywalls. Maybe I just avoid them naturally?<p>It also seems like this could be useful for free versions of iOS apps, as advertisement replacements (or supplements.)
memset超过 12 年前
The neat use-case I see coming out of this is enhancing an onboarding process.<p>I work for a company which sells wine online, and a large number of people have strong preferences about the types of wines they like (red, white, chardonnay, half-cases, etc.)<p>It's useful to give people a survey - combined with an explanation of how the site works - as they are signing up. Even more useful is to use their answers to show the new customer a wine which is suited to their tastes. (If you like high-end reds, it wouldn't make sense to show you a half-case of inexpensive white wine to convince you to make you first purchase.)<p>And if our marketing department can manage their survey, marketing copy, and graphic design without having to ask developers every time they want a change (or if they can save me the time of writing a customizable interface) then all the better.<p>Onboarding. That's where it's at, yo.<p>The idea of surveys as a paywall mechanism (eg, New York Times paywall with a survey) is, at first glance, pretty unappealing, because paywalls are de-facto abhorrent. But we'll see; I may not mind filling out a 4-question questionnaire in order to read an article that would otherwise be blocked. Especially if I know that after filling it out once, I will never ever have to fill the survey out again.<p>And let's not forget about the adult industry! Instead of captchas... well, why not get some interesting marketing analytics out of the deal?<p>Interested to see how this evolves!
AznHisoka超过 12 年前
Isn't this just a fancy ad? A lot of sites already have lightbox Javascript popups (that AdBlock can't block?) that acts as ads or gateways to getting your email address.
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zio99超过 12 年前
Survata, how about a sticky to the top of the site? Just a thought - it'll be easier on the mobile crowd.
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andrewcooke超过 12 年前
it would be nice to have an example that you could run through several times. i tried the football example once and then wanted to see how it handled incorrect answers, but wasn't going to start searching for cookies to delete just to re-enable it...
tomjen3超过 12 年前
I hope this doesn't catch on. At least with youtube ads adblock can block them.
killahpriest超过 12 年前
Doesn't Wufoo offer this already?