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Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by andkon »

newman8r wrote: post #99
andkon wrote: post #30

I've been a senior product marketer at Heroku and Realm (AKA the person responsible for leading the creation of product landing pages), and I gotta counsel y'all: when you're looking at landing pages, what makes them great has a lot less to do with the visual design, and a lot more to do with the story and message they tell. They're fundamentally narrative media: a landing page proceeds serially from top to bottom. W…

What are your thoughts about showing pricing on the landing page?

I feel like most of the time, pricing decisions involve a lot of information and it feels like a digression to have it all on one page. For simple apps and pricing structures, it's doable — my Rdio-to-Spotify app was $5, and said so up front – but the point of the landing page is to help someone decide if you're useful to them or not. Get them to the "yes, if" stage before showing them pricing, imo.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by tobltobs »

mproud wrote: post #129
anandkulkarni wrote: post #6

I put together a browseable set of example high-quality landing pages here, ranging from startups to larger companies: https://design.crowdbotics.com These examples were originally selected by Kesler Tanner over at the Stanford Institute of Design. They represent what's going on as of mid-2017 in landing page design. The one shift that I've seen since this collection was last updated is the migration to bolder, more…

All I see is an orange screen and “Crowdbotics”…

Just wait a bit longer it is downloading 18MB, that might take a while ...

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by sah2ed »

aroman wrote: post #121
drewmate wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's a running joke about DropBox. The giveaway is in the link in the parent's post.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by Gustomaximus »

moeamaya wrote: post #114
pryelluw wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Without knowing any existing pages or stats from the original page this claim is weak bravado.

I worked out one time Ive more than 300 million online sales/signups/downloads under my belt. I like to think that gives me some credibility. And I agree with OP that simple, basic and even ugly pages can be extremely effective.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

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Post by zachrip »

Caratz wrote: post #167

Shameless self bump but I worked pretty hard on this. https://caratz.io Also took me awhile to design the forum thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3220677

Not sure if it's because I'm viewing it on a 1440p display, but the node garden animation in the background is super laggy. When I shrink it down to mobile size it looks nice though.

Edit: the scrolling is also janky, I think as a result of the node garden rendering/processing.

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