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With your animation I spent 20 seconds staring and still have no idea what your product is even related to. Leaving me frustrated and completely uninterested.
I have to agree it's a good start but I am still not sure what it is you are doing
I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth! The hope was people would enjoy the experience enough to "trust" us with the email and a follow-up down the road. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
I think the page you put up has personality but there really wasn't anything to hook me into giving up my email address. I think being completely stealthy and getting lots of email addresses and/or is impossible or at least very difficult unless you have a high profile personality involved. Without that I need something to pique my curiousity.
The graphics and layout are nicely done ... but I'm not sure to what end. (I realize that's part of the problem of announcing stealth projects.)
The layout will have to change if the teaser is presented all at once.
I'd say just tell people what it is and let them decide if they want to sign up. The animation has zero information value.
The email box seems unnecessary big and the example email can be place inside the box. Regarding the submit button, you did not put too much effort on it considering all the work you did in the html5 animation. More importantly, I will not give you my email without knowing what it is.
Placing text inside of input fields lowers the response rate, and creates issues when the user looks to see if they entered the correct type of input, yet the instructional label has been replaced by their own text.
yes, mostly lame. The owl is cute. Why would someone sign up if they have no idea what you are doing or offering? What kind of person do you think would sign up? Is that kind of person your business target? Slowly spoon-feeding info to the reader with animation is disrespectful. If you have something to say, put it out there so it can be read as quickly as the reader is able, or at least clicked through. Under the lo…
Re: collecting email - that's not actually the goal. However, I'm collecting WAY more than I would if I put the logo and a general tag-line.
The goal was to just let people have some experience with the brand. Be it amusing or fun. I was hoping to garner a smile. I actually didn't think it would be considered disrespectful, and I question whether you'd feel the same if you stumbled upon it via my Twitter, etc.
Nevertheless, I really do appreciate the time you took to write up your thoughts and appreciate your well wishes.
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I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth! The hope was people would enjoy the experience enough to "trust" us with the email and a follow-up down the road. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth! You should be working on your product instead of futzing around with a placeholder web site that you don't actually intend anyone to see. If you actually want to gauge customer interest and collect e-mails, then put some content on that page and worry about the presentation (and I actually think that's a really good idea). As things…
Re: focusing on the actual product. This was the first "hello world" deployed with the dev-environment setup. SCM, scripts, and all that BS that's annoying to setup after you haven't done it in years was where the majority of the time was spent. I'm pretty sad how long it took me to setup everything.
Re: random emails, great point. The majority of the people who sign up are people I speak to directly or are in my network.
You may be interested to know that today I've only had about 36 non-garbage looking sign-ups and seems like around ~630 page views. So about 5% of views today resulted in a sign up.
Appreciate the time/effort/honesty.
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I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth! The hope was people would enjoy the experience enough to "trust" us with the email and a follow-up down the road. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
I created http://duringconstruction.com/ for reasons such as this. Naturally it has to be a little more generic but you can get it up by only changing DNS. It gives you all of the benefits while wasting as little time as possible. I think the page you put up has personality but there really wasn't anything to hook me into giving up my email address. I think being completely stealthy and getting lots of email addresse…
Yeah, I'm not really going for emails, just thought it was funny to have a talking owl try to coax someone to sign up for something they had no clue about. I think I may enjoy it more than anyone.
Thanks for the help and I'll make sure to pass your link along next time I see someone considering building an "under-construction" page.