UI/UX first impressions feedback: Unnecessary animations are annoying especially, you can rid of all the animations with no any exceptions (think of all the applications that we use everyday and designed by biggest companies, they all are free of animations). The same thing applied to shadows, someines shadows add extra complexity to the UI.
Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
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You're right in that moving away from Google is a huge behavioral change. While our model does prefer natural language queries, what I was really referring to are the different categories of developer searches. Ad-hoc how-tos are a type of search where the developer knows what to do but not exactly how e.g "how to set a cookie in fastapi." Troubleshooting searches are things like copy-pasting a compile error, or "why…
I may not be representative, but the vast majority of my Google searches are troubleshooting. If I need to know how an API works, I go straight to the docs. Put another way, troubleshooting is a several times per week task for me, and doing something net new is a once a month task which may not result in a search query. You’re going to have a hard time staying on my radar focusing on the less frequent case. Possibly…
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#175Sorry to be blunt, this site is one of the worst ui/ux experience I've seen. For a website targeted towards programmers mainly, the lack of dark mode is a crime. And the first half of the page is just logo and the searchbar. Poorly named and designed logo and branding. 'sayhello' is a stupid name for a search engine catered towards programmers. Why make the product at all when clearly you havent done enough thinking…
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#176This is something that will make me go back to Google.
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Stack overflow offers a version for companies. I've never used it, but it sounds like what you might want
I can just imagine it will spawn the same "closed as off topic" and other similar responses for most questions :P Also, stack overflow's search has always sucked. The way to find stuff on stack overflow has mostly been to use google.
Re: Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
#178Sorry to be blunt, this site is one of the worst ui/ux experience I've seen. For a website targeted towards programmers mainly, the lack of dark mode is a crime. And the first half of the page is just logo and the searchbar. Poorly named and designed logo and branding. 'sayhello' is a stupid name for a search engine catered towards programmers. Why make the product at all when clearly you havent done enough thinking…
Re: Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
#179Sorry to be blunt, this site is one of the worst ui/ux experience I've seen. For a website targeted towards programmers mainly, the lack of dark mode is a crime. And the first half of the page is just logo and the searchbar. Poorly named and designed logo and branding. 'sayhello' is a stupid name for a search engine catered towards programmers. Why make the product at all when clearly you havent done enough thinking…
Re: Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
#180Sorry to be blunt, this site is one of the worst ui/ux experience I've seen. For a website targeted towards programmers mainly, the lack of dark mode is a crime. And the first half of the page is just logo and the searchbar. Poorly named and designed logo and branding. 'sayhello' is a stupid name for a search engine catered towards programmers. Why make the product at all when clearly you havent done enough thinking…
Dark mode is not a core value proposition.
(my guess is that) The logo and search bar take up a lot of space because they are mimicking the design of the Google.com landing page.
It seems like the bulk of their work has been on the search itself, so I would forgive them on logo and branding. It’s an early product so logo and branding can change.
For now, they just need constructive feedback on workflow and usability.