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ouibounce
JavaScript2014–2021
carlsednaoui / ouibounce

ouibounce

Increase your landing page conversion rates.

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Increase your landing page conversion rates.

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Observed mentions: 2014-05-29 08:40:28 UTC to 2021-06-25 15:45:42 UTC.

01232014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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gingerlime·Aug 4, 2014
This seems similar to bounceexchange[0], and I think the idea is generally good. Try to grab people's attention at the last minute when they're already planning on leaving your website anyway. Last-ditch effort that can't really upset too much, especially since you already lost them. Of course it depends on how spammy those popups end-up being, but at least from a couple of sites that I've seen and who use bounce exchange, they do seem to get pretty spammy-looking in my opinion. What I wonder the most is who would actually pay for this. The 'exit intent technology' as dubbed by bounceexchange can be easily done with a couple of lines of javascript. Perhaps it won't be as sophisticated, but it would achieve very similar effect. We ended up borrowing a small snippet from an open-source project[1] that does this and it's looking fine so far.
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All it does it checks if the mouse y-coordinates is below a certain threshold and then triggers the modal. Perhaps the popups themselves and having them pre-designed or having a WYSIWYG editor and integrated without any coding would be a selling point here? (not being sarcastic, genuinely curious about the potential customer base for this). [0] http://bounceexchange.com/ [1] https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce
In Show HN: ExitIntent – Convert bouncing visitors to leads and customers
carlsednaoui·May 29, 2014
Author of the plugin here. There's a few points I'd like to address/ clarify since I'm likely to have a different perspective than most HN users on this. 1) Pop-ups are terribly annoying and provide a bad user experience. I agree, they're not the best. The question then remains "If they're so bad, then why do websites have them". Short answer: "Because it works. They drive sales. They drive engagement." I would pick a pop-up that fires when I'm about to leave the site v.s. one that shows on pageload or after X seconds any day of the week. 2) Your marketing message is spammy and nobody likes spam. Very true too. It's extremely easy to abuse something like Ouibouce. I tried covering this in the readme: https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce#the-philosophy-beh.... > Please use Ouibounce to provide value to your visitors. With tools like
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these it's very easy to create something spammy-looking. Not sure what I mean by provide value? Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing: Free ebook, Upcoming webinar invite, Exclusive access to XYZ, A full educational course, Valuable content. 3) This may increase revenue in the short term but will likely decrease goodwill in the long run. This one is so tricky and hard to measure. There's definitely a fine line that can be (very) easily crossed. My belief is that, so long as you add value to your visitors, you should be fine. If you want to continue the convo off HN, feel free to reach out @carlsednaoui
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