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First, your screenshot "welcome to my site" is deceiving. Make it more clear that is a screenshot, not your website. Actually, I don't see the need for this scr
by soneca 11y ago
First, your screenshot "welcome to my site" is deceiving. Make it more clear that is a screenshot, not your website. Actually, I don't see the need for this screenshot to exist at all.
But about what you list of diferencials:
- Try without login to prove it is easier to use
Great! You will just have to make sure it is indeed easier to use.
- Edit and format posts 10x faster than your current editor
Good value proposition. But only the easy photo inserting and editing (with resizing) lives up to it. It indeed looks great.
But (3) Add Topics and (4) Publish your page on social networks look like commodities on blog platforms (and not related to the value proposition of being easier to edit).
- Built-in site search with relevant results.
"Your posts will never get buried in the archives again." Is that a problem? For who?? One do not enter at a personal blog to search for something. And why add another value proposition?
- Discover users with similar interests
Again: why add another value proposition? And hint: you won't solve this problem. You won't get a critical mass of "interesting people" for a looong time. And until then, having this feature will just disappoint your users and make they feel this is a pretentious amateur site no one cares about.
Instead, why not make this feature as a tool to discover interesting people posting interesting things on Twitter/FB/LinkedIn/Medium?
And make the posts on your platform to be "related to:" posts on those bigger platforms.
So my personal advice would be: cut the search feature and decide if you will focus on being really easier to edit or if you will focus on having a killer discovery feature (allowing people to answer or at least point out to other posts on other platforms).
- robot 11y agoThanks, I appreciate the feedback. Site search: A lot of bloggers have last few posts on their front page and rest is hard to find again. A search feature lets you discover all the content regardless of time. Discover users: Agree. We will focus on the tool first and network later. Will remove that. The idea here is to simplify personal blog setup, writing, and discovering efficiently. If you start a blog on wordpress, you need to host it, configure via admin panels, go through options, install plugins. Select templates, then try to edit parts of it and fail. Here you get one site that works, without any setup. Content is not dispersed. A visitor can efficiently find content. I will revise the message to make it more clear.
- soneca 11y agoSearch depends on you know what you are searching. If im visiting another person blog for the first time and enjoyed the post where i landed, i do want to know what else of interesting that person wrote before. But i dont know what search. I agree with the problem, not with the ssolution (and i dont have any to propose neither) Edit: paul graham solved it just by showing his complete list of articles (no other info aside title. No dates, no tags, just title): http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html