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Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#1
Recently worked on a personal project this summer and finally soft launched it with a private beta. I've created this landing page for it at:

http://www.dailychomp.com

I'd like some feedback on the landing page design and ways you think I could improve it as I've never really done landing page designs before.

Just want to see if others could pick out ways to improve it.

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#3
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Nice twist on not collecting email addresses into some bucket that will sit dormant for 2 years - pretty clever of you to poke twitter & facebook instead (which, I imagine, would result in more 'OMGVIRALZ' too).

I had actually had a very similar idea to this myself, but never got around to implementing it.

The design looks clean and very appealing, but why did you create it with a hashbang link approach? It doesn't appear to gain anything by doing that (click on the 'about' link)

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#4
Looks good overall. Couple small things: 1) Show a couple more screenshots so we know what exactly it does 2) I see this a lot and it drives me nuts: DailyChomp, but the logo shows dailychomp. The logo also looks a little out of place. 3) I would give the option to collect email addresses too.

Lastly, and the most important... start A/B testing right now. Try testing the wording in that button first and go from there.

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#5
post #4

Looks good overall. Couple small things: 1) Show a couple more screenshots so we know what exactly it does 2) I see this a lot and it drives me nuts: DailyChomp, but the logo shows dailychomp. The logo also looks a little out of place. 3) I would give the option to collect email addresses too. Lastly, and the most important... start A/B testing right now. Try testing the wording in that button first and go from there…

Just on 2) - I actually prefer to see all lower case in the logo, as opposed to CamelCasing the whole lot

Certainly agree on 1) though

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#6

edit typo Nice twist on not collecting email addresses into some bucket that will sit dormant for 2 years - pretty clever of you to poke twitter & facebook instead (which, I imagine, would result in more 'OMGVIRALZ' too). I had actually had a very similar idea to this myself, but never got around to implementing it. The design looks clean and very appealing, but why did you create it with a hashbang link approach? It…

Thanks for the feedback.

It's using hashbang links simply because the mobile web application uses a similar approach in order to reduce the assets being transferred over 3g connections.

The desktop web application is bootstrapping the same JavaScript at the moment so it uses a similar approach in requesting the assets that change.

The idea is so the desktop can easily inherit most of the functionality of the mobile web application with minimal modifications.

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#7
post #4

Looks good overall. Couple small things: 1) Show a couple more screenshots so we know what exactly it does 2) I see this a lot and it drives me nuts: DailyChomp, but the logo shows dailychomp. The logo also looks a little out of place. 3) I would give the option to collect email addresses too. Lastly, and the most important... start A/B testing right now. Try testing the wording in that button first and go from there…

1) For sure! I thought about sliding through screenshots on the mobile device's screen. Do you think there is a better approach? Bigger screenshots maybe?

2) I actually looked around a bit at places like Facebook and Twitter and noticed a similar approach with logos designed however but the formal name when referencing it in sentences is with the proper capitalizations. Not sure if this is the best way to do it but I just tried to follow 'conventions' I've seen around.

3) Probably a good idea, always good to give several options.

Will go about implementing some of your feedback, thanks a lot!

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

#8
Currently at work so I'm using IE8. It seems to be completely unusable. I hate thinking about it just as much as the next guy, but it's probably wise to support at least 2 versions back for IE.

I recommend keeping the landing much simpler and more focused. I have no idea what is trying to run when I load the page, but whatever it is probably isn't strictly necessary for the front page. Link to the more complicated stuff for those who become interested.

Re: Ask HN: How's my landing page?

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post #8

Currently at work so I'm using IE8. It seems to be completely unusable. I hate thinking about it just as much as the next guy, but it's probably wise to support at least 2 versions back for IE. I recommend keeping the landing much simpler and more focused. I have no idea what is trying to run when I load the page, but whatever it is probably isn't strictly necessary for the front page. Link to the more complicated st…

Guilty as charged. I did absolutely no cross browser testing with IE for DailyChomp mainly due to time constraints with school starting. No excuse but thanks for the good reminder. I will try to fix up the IE issues as soon as I can. Sorry about that!

I've made a screenshot for you to see how it looks at the moment: http://f.cl.ly/items/3r1H280A2U3G1w0N1d1w/Screen%20Shot%2020...

I did try to put a focus on simplicity. Let me know if you think there's still some unnecessary stuff on the page :)

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