Hi All, By way of introduction, I’m Shaun Thambyah, I’ve been most things tech through my career. Mostly in corporate Australia, I spent a few years running the online operations for some big brand name insurers. While there, it became pretty apparent that something was missing in our monitoring capability. Nothing could tell us if our sites just looked right, so the idea for obvious.io <http://www.obvious.io> was born.
We’ve spent a lot of time building a product. Everyone told us this was wrong, but we didn’t listen. I guess we're doing it wrong in lean startup terms. The truth is, we had to prove the technology behind the scenes would work, because sometimes having a crazy idea doesn’t mean you can make it work, and making something work doesn’t mean people will pay you for it. So here we are, that crazy idea *does* work, we’ve sorted that out. But can it go from being a ’neat idea’ to a product? We built Obvious.io as visual monitoring tool for websites, imagine if something like Pingdom could actually “see" your page, just as your users see it and alert you the moment something doesn’t look right. Obvious.io takes regular snapshots of your page and compares them with a baseline, we use some nifty computer vision techniques to identify what parts of your page have changed, you can choose ignore the dynamic bits so you won’t get woken at 3am because someone published a blog post or a news item changed. We believe monitoring your user experience to make sure your customers can use, transact and navigate your website is simplest and highest value way of maintaining your brand’s reputation and ensuring downtime does’t cost you valuable conversions. http://www.obvious.io Hopefully we're not doing it completely wrong. We’d love your feedback. -Shaun -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
