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Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
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Re: Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
#52I like the concept. We recently A/B tested the hell out of our landing page at Sidelines ( http://sidelinesapp.com ), so there are some interesting things we learned that may be applicable to you: 1. Coming up with an effective single-sentence explanation of your product will affect your conversion more than anything else. I don’t think you’ve quite nailed it with “An app for you and your campus.” Figure out what the…
I learn a lot from this reply that I think I could use in my own projects, thanks a lot for sharing.
Re: Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
#53I like the concept. We recently A/B tested the hell out of our landing page at Sidelines ( http://sidelinesapp.com ), so there are some interesting things we learned that may be applicable to you: 1. Coming up with an effective single-sentence explanation of your product will affect your conversion more than anything else. I don’t think you’ve quite nailed it with “An app for you and your campus.” Figure out what the…
I don't agree with 4. I think the the name "shoutt" suggests that the app is heavily focus on content producing. The animated dot on the map further reinforced this impression. So I don't think it's necessary to tailor to the content consumption aspect. My understanding is that this app is strictly for expressing oneself, so who wants to "shoutt" if everyone else is shouting and nobody listening? There is still value prop in this case, if the app is intended to aggregate what people shoutt about and somehow connect people with that? Still have to see the demo video to find out exactly what it does.
Re: Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
#54I noticed that the page took a long time to load. Page Speed has some good recommendations for speeding it up: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
Direct link to results: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...
Nifty tool! We'll use it to improve the page load times.
Re: Ask HN: Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
#55Reminded me a lot of Like a Little[1] (YC S11) [2], before it became known as Circle[3] [1] http://likealittle.com/ [2] http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/likealittle-funding/ [3]
I was also reminded of Like a Little and Shoutflow. Apparently, their website is defunct now but I found an old article about it: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/discover-like-minded-peo...
It would be helpful to research why some of these social discovery apps did not work and ensure Shoutt doesn't make the same mistakes. Like a Little went on a rage for many months and then started plummeting. Personally, I love the idea though! Good Luck!