Edit: never mind, you do have some edited samples. It's the same Santa throughout (which makes sense) so we have to take your word that the message we get will be of the same calibre. But that's the risk we take I suppose.
I can see why they wait on the price... probably converts better by getting people little pregnant. Maybe HN crowd is too sensitive to the practice.
Did you really think it would be free? How can we better present the value of delivering high-quality theatrical performance on demand?
Seems like an interesting topic for a blog post.
Show HN seems misleading... says it's from the jib jab guys... isn't that a fairly established entity?
Last season was our first year. This year we teamed up with JibJab to help bring HelloSanta to the masses.
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Provided above. That is a pretty great price. Why not be upfront on the price? Seems reasonable for the service.
The information you ask for obviously assumes one child.
I ended up having to reschedule due to my internet connection going down an hour before my first scheduled call. It ended up coming back up (Comcast was working in the area) in time, but I didn't know if it would and decided to be safe rather than sorry. The reschedule process was flawless.
My boys are 7 and 8 and still "mostly" believe. They were the ones I did this for. My girls; 11 & 12 don't, so I didn't involve them.
The "Facetime" style live video option was, without a shred of doubt, worth every penny. The boys absolutely loved it. Santa was awesome, and him knowing their teacher's names was a convincing little tidbit of information. There were a couple of odd-placed "dings" during the call that I'm still not sure about (what they meant), but other than that, it was flawless. My older son was so excited he could barely sit still. He did throw Santa a curve ball at the end asking if Santa had anything for his sisters, but Santa was able to think on his feet and get through it without a hitch.
The only suggestion I can come up with is possibly providing some method of testing the live video feed 24-48 hours before the call. I had no issues on an iMac which has a good built-in webcam, but as a primary Windows user, I would have wanted to test things before the call to make sure it would work if I were using a Windows box.
Overall - great service, thank you for posting it, and if they still believe, I'll be doing it again next year!
