@HustleNHack - If you're displaying data on anonymous traffic, a) why doesn't your site show data about the current anonymous visitor visiting the site (me) and b) why do you instead ask for an email at the bottom of the homepage to show off the product?
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@timjahn - Tim, I wrote a long answer to Question B. I wanted to go a little deep there so you can better understand our passion, goals, and vision.
Answer to A)
We're a startup with a growing graph. Our graph doesn't cover 100% of the web. We're in the process of expanding our network and getting feedback on how to improve our product.
Answer to B)
So why do we ask people to give us their email on our landing page and try our product? For marketing reasons of course!
Our goal is to make it super simple to create a personalized web app. Apps have registered & anonymous traffic. We provide deep insights on registered traffic -- aka people that sign up for your app -- that's what you're seeing on our landing page. When someone registers for a web app, we capture their device. If that device appears in our network on another client site, then we can provide insights to our client about their digital visitor.
Our true goal is to help companies understand their users and personalize the content each user experiences. That's what the second half our landing page talks about. We believe every app is going to personalize to each user. No matter what, that's the direction of the internet. We'd like to make that process as easy as possible so companies other than Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, etc have access to this technology. That's really our goal: Plug & Play Personalization. We do a heck of a lot of large-scale machine learning and server orchestration in the background...but we abstract that and just say...here you go. It works, its easy to use, and we'd like to know if it'd be useful to your and company. Feel free to ping me at nawar@augur.io if you have technical questions or if you thought I didn't write enough here. haha ;)
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Hey everyone, I'm a founder at Augur. Would love to learn about your current project, answer any question, and see how I can help in anyway. Thanks for excitement!
If you're into hacking, check out the easter eggs I put on our jobs page .. a bunch of keygen music and ascii art I custom made. haha =)
I saw this get posted on HN back in November and was blown away. So glad to see it get some nice design and layouts. Super interesting information and direction. Congrats on the new launch!
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WOW, even for email that I don't advertise much, it gave me very broad profile of myself. Like!
Interested to know the technology.
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Hey @HustleNHack (Nawar)!
I love what you are up to with Augur :) We are working in a similar space with http://profiles.io and I'd love to chat. Ping me!
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