Comments on “TestNest
Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
While clean, the site needs more information. How exactly are the a/b tests done? You can't do a true a/b test on the App Store itself.
Nick Kurat@mrneek · CEO, TestNest
@rrhoover hey Ryan, you are right. Recording a screencast with more information now. But in a nut shell - TestNest helps you create landing pages to test your app icon, screenshots etc. The landing page looks like this (icon test example): http://testnest.co/pages/53fb297... You direct traffic to it and get the analytics of the number of visits, conversi… See more
Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@mrneek gotcha! That was my assumption but it was unclear. This is useful although to @davidkmckinney's point, the testing meta-data/price on a custom landing page is a much different context than the App Store itself. Can users really depend on the results of TestNest to drive their App Store optimization or is it not designed for that use case?
Nick Kurat@mrneek · CEO, TestNest
@rrhoover that's a good point. We had a couple of interviews with various app owners that regularly do AB tests for their app metadata. They are using custom HTML pages for AB tests now and from their experience there is some difference in the results but it is not significant. That was enough for us to decide to go with custom landing pages for now and see … See more
Nicholas Sheriff@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@rrhoover @mrneek Ryan I think it's more about the human condition that the APP Store Optimization which are two completely Different in the sense of context. One one hand this should be done first and then from using testnest you have a great control group for your weekly or bi weekly run on the app store. The focus is that you're always testing ASO as I … See more
Emiel Janson@emieljanson · Designer, Blendle
@rrhoover I agree with you on this Ryan.
Matt Galligan@mg · co-founder Circa, SimpleGeo, Socialthing
@mrneek Thanks Neek. Would love to give this a shot for Circa. We're launching our new version soon! I've signed up for the beta, so if there's any chance we can test early that would be awesome.
Nick Kurat@mrneek · CEO, TestNest
@mg hey Matt, for sure. Just put up a page here http://testnest.co/login use it to sign in with your facebook account. There is also a screencast about how to use the service here: http://vimeo.com/testnestco/over...