tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77634723407802301972024-02-18T20:49:15.887-08:00Obsurvey blogThis is a blog for the webapplication obsurvey. It is a webapplication for creating your own online surveys, collecting answers and analyzing the results. Obsurvey is created by Allan Ebdrup in his spare time.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-26431723466371083282013-04-01T23:22:00.000-07:002013-04-02T03:05:12.873-07:00109 paying subscribers<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is a followup to my blogpost entitled <a href="http://obsurvey.blogspot.dk/2013/03/how-i-was-forced-to-create-saas-business.html" target="_blank">How I was forced to create a SaaS business</a></span><br />
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Obsurvey was transformed to a paid service Feb 27th 2013. Because the service was growing too large as a free service, and I was facing large hosting bills if it continued to be free. Existing users were given free access until April 1st 2013.<br />
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Today obsurvey has 109 paying customers. Fourteen of those are on a $96/Year plan. I had to create a annual plan in a hurry, because people were asking for it. The remaining 95 are on a $8/Month plan.<br />
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All in all I consider this a success. Getting twelve upgrades on a single day, has been an exhilarating experience. Hey! They are really paying and they continue to come!<br />
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Getting paying customers has revived my drive for improving obsurvey. Since it was made a paid service, I have done a lot of improvements. Implemented features that people have been asking for, and I did a quite big data-transformation and performance optimization - that has obsurvey running faster than ever. I'm having fun with obsurvey again!<br />
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One thing that has surprised me is that with over a thousand likes on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/obsurvey" target="_blank">obsurvey facebook page</a>, I was expecting a lot of people to unlike obsurvey when it turned paid. This hasn't happened. In fact since converting to a paid service, the number of likes has continued to increase.<br />
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I did see some numbers fall. Right before converting to a paid service, obsurvey was getting 2,000 signups a month. This number has dropped to 800 signups for a trial a month. The number of survey responses has dropped from 200,000 a month to 80,000 a month.<br />
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I personally consider 800 signups for trials a month, with a $0 marketing budget and no time spend on marketing at all, quite good.<br />
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<b>What now?</b></h3>
I do<b> not </b>intend to focus on conversion rates, optimizing payment tiers, marketing, SEO, partnerships or anything like that. I will instead be focusing on one thing and one thing only. The thing that made obsurvey grow in the first place: <b>Building an even better survey application.</b> Here are my personal reasons why:<br />
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<li>Building a great product is fun!</li>
<li>Marketing sucks the life out of me, and I'm really bad at it.</li>
<li>I can't get enough of performance optimizing obsurvey.</li>
<li>I've tried, but never even been able to muster enough interest in SEO, to even grasph the basics.</li>
<li>I love the excitement of building a feature, and testing it on real people on usertesting.com. The feeling of having build something awesome, that users are going to love, can't be beaten.</li>
<li>I have limited time to spend, might as spend it on something I'm good at and love to do - things that make me a better developer.</li>
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When obsurvey users write me emails, saying how much they love obsurvey, it's because the product is great. Nobody writes me thank you notes, because my marketing or SEO is great. Although, come to think of it, some have complained that obsurvey was hard to find - but I'm guessing they work with marketing/SEO themselves :-).<br />
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And also, when everyone is doing one thing, I usually try to do something different. This is not primary source of income - I can afford to experiment. That's also why obsurvey has no free plan, has no payment tiers and the annual plan has no discount. Obsurvey does not become less valuable, because you pay for longer periods.</div>
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Having a small userbase, allows me to spend more time on innovation, when the userbase gets large, change comes slower. You spend more time on support, and you get the dreaded: "But what are the users going to say"-fear of change. I've seen first hand how damaging this fear can be at large SaaS companies. I intend to take full advantage of my small size.</div>
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So I'm not saying obsurvey is never going to get some work done on SEO, marketing, partnerships or payment tiers. I'm just not going to be the one doing it. If obsurvey can grow into a bigger business just by focusing on building an <b>even better survey application</b>, I will eventually pay someone to do that work. If not, I have a nice extra income, and a few very happy users, that I can build a close relationship with. That's enough for me.</div>
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obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com12665 Vallensbæk Strand, Denmark55.618569954480051 12.38680601119995155.617448954480054 12.384284511199951 55.619690954480049 12.389327511199951tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-61618022620138914752013-03-02T10:45:00.000-08:002013-03-02T11:07:35.379-08:00How I was forced to create a SaaS business<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since 2006 I've been working on <a href="http://obsurvey.com/" target="_blank">obsurvey</a>, another online survey solution. I did not build it, so much to create a business. But more because I thought that the survey solutions of the day where not very good, and I wanted to prove to myself that I could build a better one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />I worked at it in my spare time, for countless hours from 2006 to 2010. At this point, obsurvey was a very "complete" survey solution, that would meet 80% of users requirements.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned a lot about building Rich Internet Applications, and I also learned a lot from conducting real user tests with usertesting.com. I'm proud of the great usability and innovative solutions that I have pioneered with obsurvey. Especially the logic to only show a question when something specific was answered to a previous question. And the live filtering in the reporting. But also the whole "no drag and drop, just click"-philosophy I developed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By 2010-11 my interest had moved on to other projects, and I just left obsurvey as a completely free service, with no limitations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I left it, there where about 100 new registrations a month and about 20.000 new survey responses a month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three years passed, I had done no development and no marketing for obsurrvey. But the usage continued to grow slowly but steadily. So about a month ago it passes 1.1 million survey responses, and was averaging 2,000 signups and 200,000 survey responses a month. And as far as I can see from Google Analytics, the growth is almost entirely from word of mouth. Obsurvey users, are telling their friends that this is a piece of software worth using. My hosting company contacted me to tell me that the server was stressed, and I had to do something about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did some optimizations, and the hosting company was happy. But now I was faced with the fact that I had to do something to reduce the traffic, or move to more expensive hosting because of the growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So during the weekend I implemented payments for obsurvey. One plan: $8/month, 30 day free trial. No freemium. Announced the change on facebook, and launched the paid version Feb 25th 2013. I set existing users to have free access until April 1st 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So how is it going? So far 7 people have signed up for a paid account. And I'm satisfied with that, as no-one has had their trial expire yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must say that getting a bit of money for my work, has brought back enthusiasm for the project. It's a pretty awesome survey solution if I may say so myself. And all the kind mails from users who love obsurvey have been great (Even though most of the kind words came with a support question :-).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The size of the business will hopefully grow, I will know more April 1st, when all the existing trials run out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to give obsurvey some love again.</span>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-87625118130527205292012-07-13T12:29:00.000-07:002012-07-14T00:46:06.087-07:00500,000 survey responses, what now?<span style="background-color: white;">I've been working on a online survey site in my spare time since 2007 called </span><a href="http://obsurvey.com/" style="background-color: white;">obsurvey</a><span style="background-color: white;">. For the last year and a half I've not spend much time on it, but it keeps growing. I do absolutely zero marketing of the site.</span><br />
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The last 30 days there where more than 600 people who tried the app<br />
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of those 280 became registered users.<br />
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more than 800 surveys where created<br />
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and there are almost 5.000 registered users in total. (x-axis is weeks)<br />
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and there have been 500,000 survey responses. <span style="background-color: white;">(x-axis is weeks)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">There is also a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/obsurvey">facebook page</a> with 468 likes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Unfortunately, I find it hard to motivate myself to work on it alone. It's written as a single page app (JavaScript) with a dotNet (C#) and MSSQL backend, and I've moved on to Node.js and MongoDB</span><br />
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As you can see from the site, the functionality it top notch, but the design is pretty bad (I'm no designer and I did it all myself)<br />
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I can see two options for me<br />
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<li>Find a highly skilled and motivated designer who would be willing to work with me on this. My plan would be for him/her to poslish the design of the app and build a real website, while I move the backend to Node.js and MongoDB. And the start charging monthly subscriptions for the service.</li>
<li>Sell the whole thing to someone willing to pay good money for the thousands of hours I've put into the project.</li>
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I've been trying both without success so far. Do you have any ideas for me to accomplish 1 or 2, or do you have an option 3?</div>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-38114574561868594112011-07-13T01:59:00.000-07:002011-07-13T01:59:55.447-07:00Go to facebook to see our updatesWe've decided to use facebook for frequent updates, instead of this blog.<br />
<div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/obsurvey">Join us on facebook</a><br />
There will only be infrequent updates here on the blog, when we have big things to announce.<br />
This will allow us to spend more time on improving obsurvey.</div>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-76144870128241340602011-05-01T02:50:00.000-07:002011-05-01T02:50:59.810-07:00GeolocationWe've just made some updates that should help you get geolocation data from your respondents ip-addresses. Meaning you get the respondents approximate geographical location.<br />
You can see this data when you click "Individual responses" for a survey or when you click "Report" and then click "Show map"<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdM1qxVngZr90kjBSWBVDB_7A_wi8tsdtqm6dJR8tEP3KjnTi6oSZ4FSdHVUhBL-9BGZOWE5wUQpHjGuU-6JLIvgUpgvUkdFu07lky-EpxzdLL-Qqg3nms7Z98b6YxgCyjJSCf0jEsgmM/s1600/showMap-example.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdM1qxVngZr90kjBSWBVDB_7A_wi8tsdtqm6dJR8tEP3KjnTi6oSZ4FSdHVUhBL-9BGZOWE5wUQpHjGuU-6JLIvgUpgvUkdFu07lky-EpxzdLL-Qqg3nms7Z98b6YxgCyjJSCf0jEsgmM/s320/showMap-example.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are now using two different geolocation services, if the first service does not have geolocation for the respondents ip-address, we try the other service. This should mean that almost all responses get geolocation data attached to them.</div>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-11963964944447297162011-04-13T13:40:00.000-07:002011-04-13T13:40:29.624-07:00New front page and new social sharingWe've released a complete redesign of the obsurvey front page. We hope you like it as much as we do.<br />
Also' today we released a new social sharing feature. The social sharing you can add to your survey is much better looking now:<br />
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If you know how to edit css, cascading style sheets, you can create your own themes. If you create a theme you like, please consider sending it to us, so we can consider adding at a standard theme in obsurvey. To the benefit of all obsurvey users.<br />
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Furthermore, we've added the abitily to password protect your syrveys. Click "collect responses" and add a password. You can also specify the password prompts text. Foreign language users will find this particularly usefull.<br />
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Finally there is a new filter in the reports "unique by IP-address", this filter is especially usefull if you are using obsurvey for polls or voting-style surveys.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-67862170073943840612011-02-07T14:35:00.000-08:002011-02-07T14:35:53.696-08:00Themes release will be thouroughly user testedFor the Themes-release of obsurvey, where you will be able to select different themes for your survey, we are conduction a lot of real user testing.<br />
What we do is record normal users completing the task of creating a survey. Then we analyze all the problems they were having and come up with solutions that will solve those problems. Then we implement the solutions, and start over with recording new user tests. We've just completed our 6th round of user testing, and it seems we've ironed out all the major issues.<br />
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I think you will be able to tell that a lot of hard work has gone into the Themes-release, when it's released later this month.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-43107039355391977782010-11-06T01:34:00.000-07:002010-11-06T01:34:45.658-07:00Not released yet: A preview of the CSS editing features that will be in the next release of obsurveyThis has not been released yet. But I thought I would give you a preview of the CSS editing that will be in the next major release of obsurvey.<br />
<object classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0' width='560' height='345'><param name='movie' value='http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_1116090935.swf' /><param name='flashvars' value='i=127369' /><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><embed src='http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_1116090935.swf' flashvars='i=127369' allowFullScreen='true' width='560' height='345' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'></embed></object>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-26110150309707495912010-10-10T11:59:00.000-07:002010-10-10T11:59:53.917-07:00Rename survey/Change survey titleIt is now possible to <b>change the survey title</b>. Simply click "<b>Edit survey</b>", <b>change the title</b> under the <b>survey options</b> on the left side of the screen and <b>save the survey</b>.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-3769864937551357492010-10-09T01:15:00.000-07:002010-10-09T01:16:52.673-07:00Delete responsesYou can now <b>delete responses</b>, in the "individual responses" view. When you delete you can also <b>undo the deletion</b>, if you delete by accident.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-25078174232449866662010-10-05T05:40:00.000-07:002010-10-05T05:55:44.501-07:00Required questionsYou can now make it <b>required to answer a question</b>.<br />
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You make a question required, by clicking it's <b>Options button</b>, and <b>checking </b>the <b>required checkbox</b>.<br />
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If the user <b>does not answer a required question</b> and clicks the Next button. The required question will <b>change to red font</b>, and the background will <b>pulsate red</b>, until the user answers the question.<br />
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If there are <b>several unanswered required questions</b> on the page, only the <b>first</b> <b>required question</b> will <b>pulsate red. T</b>he second that question is answered by the respondent, the<b> next required question</b> on the page will<b> pulsate red</b>. This will <b>continue until all required questions have been answered</b>.<br />
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If a required question is <b>hidden</b>, by a "Only show when.." rule, it will naturally <b>not be considered required</b>.<br />
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You can now see <b>geolocation </b>information for your responses in the<b> individual answers</b> view, and when you <b>save to disk</b>.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-13425861485044611082010-10-02T16:13:00.000-07:002010-10-02T16:13:49.800-07:00Set the text of the next buttonYou can now set the<b> text</b> of the <b>next button</b> in the survey. This means you can <b>control all the text of the survey. </b>It's now possible to make the survey entirely in <b>another language than English</b>.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-45992066419384255342010-09-29T23:16:00.000-07:002010-10-02T16:10:36.392-07:00Pdf reports releasedYou can now <b>download a pdf version</b> of your <b>survey report</b>.<br />
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Update: You can also download PDF reports in the shared reports now.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-69556215769771530352010-09-27T12:26:00.000-07:002010-09-27T12:26:47.939-07:00Branching releasedIt is now possible to <strong>branch</strong> your survey.<br />
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If you for example have a question "Do you own a cellphone? (Yes/No) " in your survey. You can have another question "What brand is your cellphone?", that <strong>is only show</strong> if the user answered "Yes" to the question "Do you own a cellphone".<br />
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The question that is <strong>shown/hidden, based on what was answered to previous questions</strong>, can be on the same page or later pages in the survey.<br />
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If a <strong>page</strong> in your survey ends up <strong>empty</strong> because, <strong>all questions</strong> on that page are <strong>hidden</strong>, the respondent <strong>won't see a blank page</strong>. Instead the page is <strong>skipped</strong>.<br />
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Compared to other survey solutions <strong>I've turned this feature on it's head</strong>.<br />
In the branching of obsurvey you <strong>specify the branching</strong> on the <strong>question being hidden</strong>, instead of on the question being answered. In this case the "What brand is your cellphone?" question. You click on the "Only show when" button for that question and specify <strong>under what conditions</strong> the question should be <strong>shown/hidden</strong>.<br />
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Here is a screenshot from the new branching dialogue:<br />
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You can use the survey outline to <b>navigate</b> your survey, <b>clicking </b>a question <b>scrolls it into view</b> and makes that question <b>active</b>.<br />
You can also <b>rearrange questions</b> by <b>dragging and dropping</b> questions in the survey outline. You can even <b>drag a question</b> from the <b>workarea</b> to the <b>survey outline</b> and vice versa.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-790022776825800722010-08-14T01:27:00.000-07:002010-08-14T05:55:48.560-07:00Social sharing of surveyYou can now add <b>social sharing buttons</b> to your survey. Clicking the "Add Social sharing" button at the top of the survey editor adds <b>buttons at the end of the survey</b>, enabeling the respondent to <b>share the survey</b> on facebook, myspace, google, twitter and a lot of other social media.<br />
This is a good way to<b> increase the number of respondents</b> to your <b>public surveys</b>. If users share the survey with their friends they may go and fill out the survey to, and maybe also <b>share the survey</b>.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-42507778659833847712010-08-12T12:44:00.000-07:002010-08-12T12:44:12.733-07:00Share a live reportWhen viewing a report in obsurvey, you can now click the "<b>share live report</b>" button at the top.<br />
This will allow you to <b>enable sharing</b> of your report. You will be given a <b>link</b> that you can <b>send to anyone</b> you want to see the report.<br />
The report they see, is just like the normal report in obsurvey. Meaning that<br />
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<ul><li>The shared report is <b>updated live</b> as responses come in to your survey</li>
<li>You can <b>filter the results</b> in the shared report</li>
<li>You can <b>download charts</b> from the shared report</li>
</ul><div>It is also possible to <b>password protect</b> your report.</div>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-39613309364991929292010-08-07T10:53:00.000-07:002010-08-07T10:53:50.431-07:00Report a problemNow you can <b>report problems</b> with obsurvey <b>directly in obsurvey</b>. There is a prominent <b>"Report a problem" button</b> at the top. I really hope you will take the time to <b>report any problems</b> you have while using obsurvey. Also in this release there are some<b> bugfixes</b>, making text bold and other rich text formatting no longer makes Safari and Chrome crash, they both have a bug, but I found a workaround.<br />
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I'm currently working on <b>sharing reports</b> and <b>generating Pdf reports</b>, and making great progress. After that I feel I must implement <b>branching/skip-logic</b>. Branching is the most asked for feature.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-23486630245920787092010-07-25T14:24:00.000-07:002010-07-25T14:24:13.483-07:00Clear all filtersWhen you <b>add filters</b> to your <b>report </b>or when browsing<b> individual answers</b>, the option to <b>clear all filters</b> now appears in the top bar. Clicking it will clear all filters you have added.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-89601990876667387472010-07-16T14:06:00.000-07:002010-07-16T14:06:25.045-07:00New version of obsurvey<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message">Copy question, download pretty graphs, question as heading of graphs. These are just some of the improvements in the new version of <a href="http://obsurvey.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://obsurvey.com/</a> I just released. Thank you to everyone who contributed feedback.</span></h3>obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-91399169853561007042010-06-22T13:45:00.000-07:002010-06-22T13:45:28.948-07:00New release "pasting from word"I've just<b> released a new version</b> of obsurvey. Before, <b>copying and pasting text</b> from other sources into obsurvey, for example from microsoft word, would <b>also copy the formatting</b> of the text you copied. This might cause parts of your survey to be <b>formatted differently</b> than the <b>rest of the survey</b>. Now, when copying and pasting text from other sources into your survey, <b>all formatting</b> of the text you copy <b>will be removed</b>. This ensures that your survey has the<b> same formatting throughout</b> the entire survey.<br />
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I've also fixed a few bugs.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-16701036985957779032010-06-08T13:23:00.000-07:002010-06-08T13:23:33.920-07:00Minor update "rounded corners"I just made a minor update to obsurvey. It now uses rounded corners in firefox, chrome and safari browsers.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763472340780230197.post-56814404458192315952010-03-29T08:40:00.000-07:002010-03-29T08:40:27.846-07:00minor release "One response per computer"Now you can <b>limit </b>the <b>responses </b>to a survey, in such a way that a respondent <b>only can answer the survey once</b>. Enabeling this feature also means that the survey will make it possible for a user to <b>leave the survey</b>, and then when the survey loads again, it <b>starts from where the user left off.</b> Technically it's implemented with <b>cookies</b>, so it can be circumvented by deleting cookies.obsurveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386913992656979784noreply@blogger.com0