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Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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The editor is pretty fancy, dragging stuff around when you create a new document works really well. Will give it a try

thx! Btw, to anyone who wants to try it out: there's no signup needed.

Just start a new document from any of the Templates or create a copy from a landing page (e.g. https://www.workio.com/b/Y2NlMTY5MDYt/security-assessment ) by clicking the "Customize and order" button.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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A few things: 1. Congrats on launching! 2. You have an explanation video hidden somewhere on the site (like literally I saw it then got back to the homepage and couldn't recall which link I had clicked to find it). Having that front and center would really help. 2a. Don't use the robot voiceover for the video. If you're not comfortable doing it yourself find somebody on Fiverr.com to do it for you. 3. It would be ver…

Thanks Michael, we're working hard on Topic / Industry specific landing pages, where it's just the video, 5 best products (without the detour of you having to customize them by hand) and 5 great people providing them.

Voiceover was Voicebunny or Bodalgo, very close decision, but there are definitely artifacts from the Mercedes GPS she did left over, but you (gladly) haven't heard the timing test we spoke...

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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It doesn't really help that 'please' is categorically misspelled as 'pls' either...

That isn't a misspelling, but a very common shortcut. I fail to see how this in any way detracts from the readability of the text. Other shortcomings notwithstanding, "pls" is fine for the vast majority of internet users.

Using 'pls' in formal communication indicates sloppiness and imprecision of thought. It indicates that one is not serious. A mental flyweight.

Shorter: spelling counts.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't really help that 'please' is categorically misspelled as 'pls' either...

That isn't a misspelling, but a very common shortcut. I fail to see how this in any way detracts from the readability of the text. Other shortcomings notwithstanding, "pls" is fine for the vast majority of internet users.

That's ok on a forum, but not on a site that tries to appear professional and elegant (and buzzword-y). Personally, I also think the font used on the "About Us" page for "What you need" and so on does not mesh all that well with the rest of the site.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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I'm sorry I found it all very confusing. For me personally it failed the 5 second test - what is the site primarily about, and how can I extract 80% of its functionality quickest?

I clicked on the Buy button and was no further forward.

The design is very slick, but there's too many words on the front page, no obvious action button/s and no immediate examples of how this could benefit me.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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I'm sorry I found it all very confusing. For me personally it failed the 5 second test - what is the site primarily about, and how can I extract 80% of its functionality quickest? I clicked on the Buy button and was no further forward. The design is very slick, but there's too many words on the front page, no obvious action button/s and no immediate examples of how this could benefit me.

May I ask you to try the 5 seconds test with my profile? https://www.workio.com/u/MjA3ZD/luca-hammer

Does that work for you?

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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post #16

I'm sorry I found it all very confusing. For me personally it failed the 5 second test - what is the site primarily about, and how can I extract 80% of its functionality quickest? I clicked on the Buy button and was no further forward. The design is very slick, but there's too many words on the front page, no obvious action button/s and no immediate examples of how this could benefit me.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who was completely confused by what this service actually does...

I tried clicking around to a few random pages and still couldn't gather exactly what it was trying to offer, although I kept clicking because I felt like "something" cool was hidden behind the jargon and poor UI.

Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That isn't a misspelling, but a very common shortcut. I fail to see how this in any way detracts from the readability of the text. Other shortcomings notwithstanding, "pls" is fine for the vast majority of internet users.

Using 'pls' in formal communication indicates sloppiness and imprecision of thought. It indicates that one is not serious. A mental flyweight. Shorter: spelling counts.

Generally in my life I've shared the same opinion... but are you sure that if A/B-tested, 'please' would outperform 'pls' in the context of Work.IO's goals?

For example: when soliciting user participation, it often helps to lower user anxiety that what is written needs to be perfectly crafted/grammatical. 'Txtspeek' can send a signal: it's OK whatever 'u' want to type here.

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