• Have websites or apps that get a lot of traffic?
• Have a huge TV in your office or living room?
• Use Google Analytics? With multiple accounts/properties?
Watch the location of your users in real-time and impress your friends, colleagues and investors as your traffic swells across the region or perhaps the globe!
I didn't find a description of what it does. Does it show on a map where visitors are coming from? Maybe it would be worth adding a fourth bullet point on the homepage.
Doesn't seem to work for me. Asks me to log in to Google, I choose my account then it goes back and shows an empty list of sites. Never got a prompt to approve any permissions.
Additionally, there are 3 CTAs on the featured page, all of which go to https://www.heatmap.tv/ga.html which prompts users to login to Google Analytics.
The FAQ assures visitors who ask "Is my data safe?"
> Your data is only accessed by the browser, not by the
> Heatmap.TV server. If you are concerned about the security
> of the browser, I suggest making adding a new user to Google
> Analytics with read-only permission to just the properties
> that should be displayed.
but since the Github repo link doesn't work, visitors cannot know which properties should be read-only.
Finally, there is a Google ad featured on the FAQ for
> World Class Math Education - K-12, Here In Fremont
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I'll get it working shortly, but it is a static website and all the functionality is in a single page ("ga.html"), so "view source" will show you everything that github will.
> which properties should be read-only
When I say "properties", I'm talking about the Google Analytics accounts, properties & views. You don't want to leave a PC/TV logged in with admin rights to GA, so the sensible thing is to add a new user just for the PC/TV with read access to the GA stuff you want to show.
I sure hope people aren't looking in my awful source to try to do anything.
Not sure, but since the site is back up, we can turn flags off for now. If any of the users who flagged the post had a different reason, it might be helpful to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
Very neat! Nice work and it was really quick to check out.
This looks especially cool in OpsBrowser 3D (disclosure - my companies product) which provides a 3D "big screen" experience for any set of web URLs: https://www.landriannetworks.com/OpsBrowser3D/
With OpsBrowser 3D I can have up to 9 instances of HeatMap.TV on the screen in the lobby revolving around and animated in 3D!
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There definitely could be problems with the Google Auth, and it probably only works on newer browsers (I have tested on Chrome and Firefox).
Do you see any errors in the console logs?
"{"error":{"errors":[{"domain":"global","reason":"insufficientPermissions","message":"Insufficient Permission"}],"code":403,"message":"Insufficient Permission"}}"
I wasn't prompted to approve any permissions so this doesn't seem surprising.
Looks like you need to replace "scope: 'profile'" with "scope: context.SCOPE" in your gapi.client.init call.
I'm not sure what was going on. It was definitely working in some scenarios, since I can see active users (with Heatmap.TV, naturally).
The Google Auth stuff has been a complete nightmare.
Additionally, there are 3 CTAs on the featured page, all of which go to https://www.heatmap.tv/ga.html which prompts users to login to Google Analytics.
The FAQ assures visitors who ask "Is my data safe?"
but since the Github repo link doesn't work, visitors cannot know which properties should be read-only.Finally, there is a Google ad featured on the FAQ for
which doesn't necessarily inspire confidence.EDIT: Remove rhetorical request.
I'll get it working shortly, but it is a static website and all the functionality is in a single page ("ga.html"), so "view source" will show you everything that github will.
> which properties should be read-only
When I say "properties", I'm talking about the Google Analytics accounts, properties & views. You don't want to leave a PC/TV logged in with admin rights to GA, so the sensible thing is to add a new user just for the PC/TV with read access to the GA stuff you want to show.
I sure hope people aren't looking in my awful source to try to do anything.
This looks especially cool in OpsBrowser 3D (disclosure - my companies product) which provides a 3D "big screen" experience for any set of web URLs: https://www.landriannetworks.com/OpsBrowser3D/
With OpsBrowser 3D I can have up to 9 instances of HeatMap.TV on the screen in the lobby revolving around and animated in 3D!