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Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by pryelluw » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 3:55 AM UTC

moeamaya wrote: post #114

pryelluw wrote: post #113

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Spot on. The highest converting landing page I have ever done was downright ugly. However, it made thousands of dollars with just a headline, a paragraph, and a buy now button. People often confuse visually pleasing with financially pleasing.

Partially agree. Willing to put a bet down you could 3x traffic/conversion with design improvement.

Could you provide some concrete examples? I see you work at a marketing agency in SF. That probably means you could have some good ones to share. Like a/b comparisons of pages that saw such improvements.

Not sarcasm or passive agreesivesness. I'm genuinely interested in the data from someone in an agency.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by NightlyDev » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 3:56 AM UTC

johnymontana wrote: post #28

https://muzzleapp.com/ Does a great job of demonstrating the value of the product.

That page was actually shit. The font is really small and the text to background contrast is really bad on mobile.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by riazrizvi » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:01 AM UTC

M4v3R wrote: post #85

fnord123 wrote: post #70

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Cute app but I have to share something I learned a week or so ago: you can silence all notifications if you click the Notification icon in the top right corner. Then scroll UP and turn on Do Not Disturb.

Actually you can Alt (Option) click that icon to enable Do Not Disturb without actually opening the notifications center :).

I don't get why Apple just doesn't provide more UI tips, like tooltips on first use of the UI. There are so many little things like this that would be great to know. For example on Windows Dialog popups, the labels for each option underline the letter for the keyboard shortcut. Did you know that Apple has keyboard shortcuts for dialog popups too, if you press CMD+letter? It took me years to figure that one out.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:24 AM UTC

drewmate wrote: post #119

qntty wrote: post #105

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It sounds like the purpose of muzzle is to enable Do Not Disturb automatically so you don't have to remember.

I have a few qualms with this app: [1] 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by writing a shell script, compiling your own custom X server, and then monitoring the screen state for full-screen apps. For Windows or Mac, you just remote desktop to your Linux box with built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually reroute the notifications. Most people I know want to be able to per…

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Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:26 AM UTC

aroman wrote: post #121

drewmate wrote: post #119

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I have a few qualms with this app: [1] 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by writing a shell script, compiling your own custom X server, and then monitoring the screen state for full-screen apps. For Windows or Mac, you just remote desktop to your Linux box with built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually reroute the notifications. Most people I know want to be able to per…

if you think compiling a custom X server is "trivial", we must have very different ideas about what that word means

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Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by EdSchouten » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:30 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by alpb » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:37 AM UTC

johnymontana wrote: post #28

https://muzzleapp.com/ Does a great job of demonstrating the value of the product.

Actually it isn't. It does not talk about a lot of important details/questions one might wonder before downloading the app, like:

    - "how does this app do it"
    - "how is this app any different than macOS's Do Not Disturb feature"
    - "where's the source code for this app, why would I trust this software with full access to my compute (it requires that)"

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by moeamaya » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:45 AM UTC

pryelluw wrote: post #131

moeamaya wrote: post #114

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Partially agree. Willing to put a bet down you could 3x traffic/conversion with design improvement.

Could you provide some concrete examples? I see you work at a marketing agency in SF. That probably means you could have some good ones to share. Like a/b comparisons of pages that saw such improvements. Not sarcasm or passive agreesivesness. I'm genuinely interested in the data from someone in an agency.

No aggression perceived.

The best client example is Groove (https://www.groovehq.com/). In 2014 they hired us to take the existing site (https://web.archive.org/web/20141223145657/https://www.groov...) and make it attractive to serious customers who can "trust" their company based on the site. Went from 1M ARR to 5M in 18 months.

A more concrete personal example is when we ranked "HTML Color Codes" with essentially zero feature improvements beyond nice UI/UX. Now ranked #1 in Google for several queries...making $5k/mo passively. More detailed write up on Indie Hackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/growing-to-1-300-mo-b...).

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by birdman3131 » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

bgdkbtv wrote: post #116

r3bl wrote: post #64

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Ah, the idea behind roastmy.site seems really cool, but the comments it gained so far seem really non-constructive. I didn't see any comment actually roasting the site, only compliments and one small suggestion (to add a comma somewhere). I really hope that the idea will catch on, and that it will gain traction (and actual roasts as a result).

Hey, thanks for the feedback on Roast My Site! It's actually my hobby project and I put it together in a couple days time. Its still in early development stages, a lot of things are missing and some are not working. Also, since there was no official launch, there is no traffic or users to actually submit sites and/or roasts. But they are coming soon and I think its going to be fun :D

Has anybody ever submitted Roast My Site to itself?

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by ComputerGuru » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 4:57 AM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #5

I'm heavily biased but I think that Mozilla Firefox's landing page is pretty great. (I had nothing to do with designing it, but I do work for Mozilla.) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Actually, that's downright terrible. I've used "Firefox" since it was called "Phoenix," but I know a lot of people that would click that link and go "huh? What is Firefox?"

The firefox homepage shouldn't be about advertising Quantum (which only applies to people already using Firefox and acutely aware of a new release (as it doesn't even introduce what Quantum is before diving in)), but rather about advertising Firefox itself.