Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?

#1

Post by mansigandhi » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:30 AM UTC

Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
shoutt.me

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#2

Post by alid » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:38 AM UTC

Hey man! I love it, great concept!

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#3

Post by mansigandhi » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:41 AM UTC

alid wrote: post #2

Hey man! I love it, great concept!

Thanks a lot! We are really excited and launching next week. We set this up so that we can collect emails from Stanford students. Do you have any suggestions to improve it?

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Post by graeme » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:49 AM UTC

Really clear. The moving dots caught my attention, and explained the concept. At this point, I want to put in my email to find out how it works.

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Post by mansigandhi » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:54 AM UTC

graeme wrote: post #4

Really clear. The moving dots caught my attention, and explained the concept. At this point, I want to put in my email to find out how it works.

Thanks. Feel free to leave your email. We plan to expand beyond schools once we finish with our beta launch at Stanford.

No spam. Promise.

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Post by alid » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:04 AM UTC

mansigandhi wrote: post #3

alid wrote: post #2

Hey man! I love it, great concept!

Thanks a lot! We are really excited and launching next week. We set this up so that we can collect emails from Stanford students. Do you have any suggestions to improve it?

None! (ok one ridiculously small thing - you could add a Favicon). It will obviously change as you scale to more campuses. Exciting! :)

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Post by wilfra » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:07 AM UTC

I think it's fucking gorgeous.

On what could be improved:

-Too much text in the lower left. You can use less characters and communicate the same thing better. Such as...

-'Leave your email and we'll let you know when Shoutt arives' change to 'Request a beta invite' and change from 14px to 18-20px. Alternately, remove this text entirely and change button text from 'Submit' to 'Request Invite'.

-Logo could use a bit more spice

-Where you say 'what do you want to shoutt about', I'd use your logo in place of 'shoutt'

-'an app for you and your campus' can be moved under the logo and put it on one line instead of two. Alternately you can move 'Exclusively at Stanford University' under the logo.

-Make the button and email form a bit smaller in relation to everything else. And consider something with a more low-key/elegant look, like rounded corners and with effects when the cursor is in the box: see Bootstrap forms. I'd also change the placeholder text to a more low-key font color, same with the button color. It shouldn't draw so much attention (at least not if it says 'Submit' if it says 'Request Invite' drawing attention is good).

Just incremental improvements, everything looks great as is. Feel free to email me if you want to follow up or for future feedback.

Good luck!

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Post by mansigandhi » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:10 AM UTC

alid wrote: post #6

mansigandhi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot! We are really excited and launching next week. We set this up so that we can collect emails from Stanford students. Do you have any suggestions to improve it?

None! (ok one ridiculously small thing - you could add a Favicon). It will obviously change as you scale to more campuses. Exciting! :)

Thanks for that - just added it.

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#9

Post by benologist » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:10 AM UTC

Unless you're LaunchRock or similar your product is not a landing page. Feedback on a temporary "give me your email address" placeholder page is the last thing you should be asking for and especially acting on in any stage between deciding to make something and launching something.

Energy spent on your landing page is energy you should have spent preparing to delete it.

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Post by mansigandhi » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:15 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #9

Unless you're LaunchRock or similar your product is not a landing page. Feedback on a temporary "give me your email address" placeholder page is the last thing you should be asking for and especially acting on in any stage between deciding to make something and launching something. Energy spent on your landing page is energy you should have spent preparing to delete it.

Hi there. I think there's been a misunderstanding.

We're actually launching this week at Stanford (our app has already been approved by Apple). The launch page is to get the email addresses of interested people and to create a pre-launch buzz at the school. We also have our pre-launch marketing on the campus going on.