Rate my startup: taurus.io
Hey HN!
While working on a separate project, my cofounder and I found maintaining and adding "product tour tooltips" to be a bit of a pain. I figured we could always put together an interface to manage them, but the time to build it never seemed like a worthwhile trade off. As our product grew, we realized having a tool from the beginning could have saved us some time.
So, we'd like to present Taurus (approaching closed beta), billed as a way to set up a product tour for your web application in 15 minutes.
Link: http://taurus.io/
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] threadIt's something we built internally for a separate project, but figured others might want to use.
- How is the product tour presented to my end users, is it something I host or you host? - How well will it work with the somewhat crazy HTML/CSS I may have on my product? - Is $3 too cheap for something like this as it's somewhat specialist, i.e. I have to be a web site owner to use it?
Would I use it, not sure really. I don't have any live projects yet that would warrant a product tour.
But it's nice to see work in this area. My only other comment is the homepage colours aren't quite a vibrant as I would have liked - personal opinion.
To answer your questions:
- Yes, this is something we host. We host the tooltip data and positioning and who has seen it.
- Hopefully your own CSS won't override the styles we create. This is going to need testing, obviously and making sure styles persist is going to be one of the goals of beta.
- I don't know if $3 is too cheap, there will be multiple tiers, but for now we just have one that will fit most people.
I'm guessing that since the beta isn't ready yet, that's why you don't currently have a demo, but I'd rather like to see a demo or have a trial period before purchasing.