Growth: fix the two funnel leaks (cold-start + viral loop) + paste/error hardening by alexandermayes · Pull Request #1 · alexandermayes/parseforge

alexandermayes · 2026-07-16T18:31:52Z

Shippable growth changes from the PostHog funnel analysis. The product core is healthy (98.5% analysis / 96% engaged); the funnel leaks at two points, which these changes target:

Visitor → submit: 47.6% — over half bounce before running anything.
Share rate: 2.8% — the viral loop is nearly dead; inbound Discord/social referral traffic is ~zero to match.

Acquisition mix (30d): Direct 735 · Google 631 · Reddit ~73 · Bing 67 · ChatGPT 41. SEO is the engine; the viral + SEO items below compound with it.

Changes

1. Discord shares link back (viral loop)

ComparisonSummary.tsx — "Copy for Discord" now appends Full breakdown → <live report URL>, deep-linking to the exact player/fight and letting Discord unfurl the OG scorecard. Adds discord_copied.has_link.

2. "See a live example" on the landing page (cold-start)

lib/demo-report.ts (new) + ReportUrlForm.tsx — a "Don't have a log handy? See a live example →" button deep-links to a verified-public raid so first-time visitors without a log URL can experience the product. Fires demo_report_clicked. Featured report is a single swappable constant.

3. Promote + ungate sharing

AnalyzeClient.tsx — header Share button goes outline → filled; adds a "Share it with your guild" CTA at the bottom of every tab (was only surfaced in the player scorecard).

4. Paste friction + private-report instrumentation

url-parser.ts — extracts a /reports/<code> from pasted text with surrounding words (mobile/Discord shares) and reads fight/source from both #hash and ?query styles (targets the 14% mobile invalid rate). AnalyzeClient.tsx — fires report_load_failed on private/failed loads (previously silent) and clearer error copy for private logs.

Measurement (PostHog insights)

Notes

Not build-verified locally (no node on PATH in the authoring env) — please confirm npm run build in CI/preview.
New events to add to PostHog if you track a schema: demo_report_clicked, report_load_failed, discord_copied.has_link.
Still open (separate, larger PR): make report pages indexable + SSR a summary — the big SEO compounder that feeds the Google channel.

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The biggest SEO lever from the funnel analysis: ~1,500 analyses/mo generated zero organic search value because analyze pages were noindex + fully client-rendered, while Google is already the #1 acquisition channel. - lib/report-meta.ts: cached (React cache) server fetch returning a discriminated result (ok/private/not_found/error); shares mapReportMeta with the API route so the mapping lives in one place. - page.tsx: real per-report <title>/description/OG from the actual report (was "Report ABC123"); index ONLY when the report loads publicly; canonical without query params folds ?fight=&source= variants; deleted reports return a real 404; private/errored stay noindex. - ReportSummary.tsx: server-rendered, crawlable summary (headline, zone, encounter list, roster) below the unchanged interactive app. Safeguards keep the ephemeral-content risk contained: private → noindex, deleted → 404, transient WCL errors → noindex + client retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TG7Bgzws6wZi3hA1P8Gs2i

Growth changes from the PostHog funnel analysis (2.8% share rate, 47.6% visitor→submit): - ComparisonSummary: "Copy for Discord" now appends a deep link back to the report so shares drive inbound traffic and Discord unfurls the OG scorecard image. Adds discord_copied.has_link for measurement. - ReportUrlForm + lib/demo-report.ts: landing page gains a "See a live example" button targeting visitors who arrive without a log URL handy (the ~52% who bounce before submitting). Fires demo_report_clicked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TG7Bgzws6wZi3hA1P8Gs2i

Lifts the 2.8% share rate found in the funnel analysis: - Header "Share" button goes from outline to filled (default) so it's discoverable, not a faint top-right icon. - Adds a "Found this useful? Share it with your guild" CTA at the bottom of every tab (raid/player/CLA), where users finish reading — sharing was previously only surfaced in the player scorecard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TG7Bgzws6wZi3hA1P8Gs2i

Targets the higher mobile invalid-URL rate (14% vs 11% desktop) and a blind spot found in the funnel analysis: - url-parser: extract a /reports/<code> from pasted text that includes surrounding words (mobile/Discord shares), and read fight/source from both #hash and ?query styles. Fully backward-compatible. - AnalyzeClient: fire report_load_failed when a report passes validation but won't load (usually a private log) — previously a silent drop-off. - Clearer error copy telling users to set a private log to Public/Unlisted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TG7Bgzws6wZi3hA1P8Gs2i

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…#2) * SSR public report summaries + make them indexable The biggest SEO lever from the funnel analysis: ~1,500 analyses/mo generated zero organic search value because analyze pages were noindex + fully client-rendered, while Google is already the #1 acquisition channel. - lib/report-meta.ts: cached (React cache) server fetch returning a discriminated result (ok/private/not_found/error); shares mapReportMeta with the API route so the mapping lives in one place. - page.tsx: real per-report <title>/description/OG from the actual report (was "Report ABC123"); index ONLY when the report loads publicly; canonical without query params folds ?fight=&source= variants; deleted reports return a real 404; private/errored stay noindex. - ReportSummary.tsx: server-rendered, crawlable summary (headline, zone, encounter list, roster) below the unchanged interactive app. Safeguards keep the ephemeral-content risk contained: private → noindex, deleted → 404, transient WCL errors → noindex + client retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TG7Bgzws6wZi3hA1P8Gs2i * Self-populating report sitemap + richer SSR summary - kv-cache: recordRecentReport/getRecentReports back a Redis sorted set of public report codes (scored by last render). No new dependency; no-ops when shared Redis is absent (local dev). - report-meta: record each public report when it server-renders. - sitemap: emit the most recent public reports (hourly revalidate) so Google actively crawls them, alongside the static homepage + guides. - ReportSummary: add an at-a-glance stat row (encounters, kills, raiders, combat time) to the crawlable summary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TG7Bgzws6wZi3hA1P8Gs2i --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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alexandermayes changed the title ~~Growth: viral backlink in Discord copy + landing-page demo report~~ Growth: fix the two funnel leaks (cold-start + viral loop) + paste/error hardening Jul 16, 2026

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Growth #4: SSR public report summaries + make analyze pages indexable #2

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1. Discord shares link back (viral loop)

2. "See a live example" on the landing page (cold-start)

3. Promote + ungate sharing

4. Paste friction + private-report instrumentation

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