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Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?
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#212Look, here is my question: how is it that startups make such great websites? I try to make a website for my products, and they always look crap, even if I start with a template from themeforest, or use a single page site builder. Is it necessary to pay to get someone to design it to make something look good, or do I just have naturally really bad skills at making things look attractive and convey a clear message? Wha…
It takes a lot of practice. The beautifully-designed work that surrounds us was largely created by people who have spent years and years honing their craft. When you start off, there will be a gap between what you want to do and what you're able to do. It's important to just keep pushing through that, and especially to keep iterating. Iterate on your websites — take a moment every now and then to clean up some part o…
"It doesn't mean you can't eventually get that good too." I respectfully disagree. I'm an anesthesiologist. I can teach anyone commenting here — in 5 minutes — how to give a general anesthetic. To wake a person up without damage? That'll be three years of your life (after you finish medical school).
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#214www.typeform.com how's this post-rebrand?
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#216https://muzzleapp.com/ Does a great job of demonstrating the value of the product.
I almost want the reverse of this - fake hilariously embarrassing notifications.
Here you go I made it:
https://github.com/riley-martine/inappropriate-notifications
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#218Earlier 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.
agree
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you read further down the Twitter feed, it's clear that this particular person didn't think she'd granted such permission, and the whole setup looks questionable on other grounds as well. Putting someone's face next to suggestions of serious problems like drug abuse or STIs on a public site without their knowledge or explicit consent at least raises ethical questions, and then trying to argue that it's obviously a…
I did read the entire thread, the site developer offered two different solutions. But the other commenters seemed to dismiss both suggestions, preferring to fetch their pitchforks instead.
His “solution” would be to hack it to avoid that specific person's image, which is not really solving anything, other than the site author’s own problem.
The footer of uifaces still says _mockups_ and the FAQ/TOS haven’t been available for a while. This is clearly playing legal sword fighting and unethical.
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#220I'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…
I marketed premium cottages with sales cycle between half year and a year and a half. Long read approach works well with those. However when you sell courses, headline, short paragraph and large Buy button works well too. It really depends on what are you selling.