Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page. Any interest?

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Post by nickevans » Fri, May 24, 2013, 4:39 AM UTC

Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page. Any interest?
thetileapp.com

Re: Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page. Any interest?

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Post by nickevans » Fri, May 24, 2013, 4:48 AM UTC

This will only be on our page for so long, but we want it to live on! If people do like this we will put in the work to open source it so others can use it.

A couple features different from LaunchRock:

-Shows how many people have already signed up ahead of you and behind you

-Allows you to jump ahead of people by sharing this on Facebook or Twitter

Re: Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page. Any interest?

#3

Post by t0 » Fri, May 24, 2013, 4:49 AM UTC

Another app was posted here recently: http://betaq.co

I do like the concept.

Re: Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page. Any interest?

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Post by nickevans » Fri, May 24, 2013, 4:55 AM UTC

t0 wrote: post #3

Another app was posted here recently: http://betaq.co I do like the concept.

Oh wow, similar ideas! Thanks for posting t0

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Post by dannyp32 » Fri, May 24, 2013, 5:13 AM UTC

I would love to see how it was built. I'm quite new to web development, and I recently built my first sign up page, but have always wanted to learn how to build the nice animations that show up on many sign up pages.

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Post by nickevans » Fri, May 24, 2013, 5:21 AM UTC

dannyp32 wrote: post #5

I would love to see how it was built. I'm quite new to web development, and I recently built my first sign up page, but have always wanted to learn how to build the nice animations that show up on many sign up pages.

Hi Danny, James on our team does the front end, but my understanding is that it's all javascript.

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Post by markdown » Fri, May 24, 2013, 5:32 AM UTC

Unsolicited Feedback: You need to provide some visual feedback when the button is clicked. Not all your users are running on fibre.

I clicked it a few times because I wasn't sure it was registering my clicks.

3G is sloooow.

Re: Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page. Any interest?

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Post by nickevans » Fri, May 24, 2013, 5:33 AM UTC

markdown wrote: post #7

Unsolicited Feedback: You need to provide some visual feedback when the button is clicked. Not all your users are running on fibre. I clicked it a few times because I wasn't sure it was registering my clicks. 3G is sloooow.

Ah, good to know. Thanks markdown

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#9

Post by ryderm » Fri, May 24, 2013, 5:37 AM UTC

It's pretty annoying to make somebody 1) give an email address to find more info then 2) dont give them the info that you just promised. I guess you mean signup for our mailing list so you can get info later, but that wasn't clear.

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Post by nickevans » Fri, May 24, 2013, 5:39 AM UTC

ryderm wrote: post #9

It's pretty annoying to make somebody 1) give an email address to find more info then 2) dont give them the info that you just promised. I guess you mean signup for our mailing list so you can get info later, but that wasn't clear.

Ah, ok thanks Ryderm. If this wasn't clear, then this should be fixed. Regarding getting more info about what we are actually working on, check your inbox. However, we should fix the language if that's the sense you got. If people are annoyed, the last thing they are going to do is share it.