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Did I miss something on the front page? It's a statement, three sub-statements and nothing else from what I could tell. Didn't see any photos or screenshots or

by prawn 11y ago

Did I miss something on the front page? It's a statement, three sub-statements and nothing else from what I could tell. Didn't see any photos or screenshots or a feature list. (Chrome, OSX.) If you have one crack at HN traction, you need to make sure your first hit is more informative. Sometimes it's worth waiting to submit to HN until you have a bit more prepared. Here's an example of another guy with a web-app for managing personnel: http://www.hrpartner.io/ http://www.hrpartner.io/ Really nice site. Screenshots, features, explanatory video, testimonials, etc. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.

cyberferret 11y ago
Hey there! I am the creator of www.hrpartner.io - Thanks so much for the shout out @prawn! (I saw my Clicky stats spike from news.ycombinator.com and wondered why. :) OP - Happy to help out and answer any questions re: marketing or web site setup etc. As other have said - screen shots seem to be a great eye draw for people (we run Heat maps on our home page too). We added the video recently, and it seems to help too, although I know we have to reduce it from 3min down to around 1min. I've had conflicting feedback that our home page contains too much info, to our home page does not explain the breadth of features enough! To that end, we are currently testing out several variations of landing pages, and am happy to discuss if you wish. Another source that I highly recommend is the free eBook from Salesforce called "The Saas Startup Founders Guide" - great discussion on building a marketing message. https://startups.salesforce.com/article/The-SaaS-Startup-Founder-s-Guide https://startups.salesforce.com/article/The-SaaS-Startup-Fou... I've gotten plenty of great feedback from the crowd here in the past, and looks like you are seeing some of that too. As I said, happy to help out if you want to ping me directly at devan (at) hrpartner.io Good luck with Churchetto.

by prawn 11y ago

cyberferret 11y ago

Hey there! I am the creator of www.hrpartner.io - Thanks so much for the shout out @prawn! (I saw my Clicky stats spike from news.ycombinator.com and wondered why. :) OP - Happy to help out and answer any questions re: marketing or web site setup etc. As other have said - screen shots seem to be a great eye draw for people (we run Heat maps on our home page too). We added the video recently, and it seems to help too, although I know we have to reduce it from 3min down to around 1min. I've had conflicting feedback that our home page contains too much info, to our home page does not explain the breadth of features enough! To that end, we are currently testing out several variations of landing pages, and am happy to discuss if you wish. Another source that I highly recommend is the free eBook from Salesforce called "The Saas Startup Founders Guide" - great discussion on building a marketing message. https://startups.salesforce.com/article/The-SaaS-Startup-Founder-s-Guide https://startups.salesforce.com/article/The-SaaS-Startup-Fou... I've gotten plenty of great feedback from the crowd here in the past, and looks like you are seeing some of that too. As I said, happy to help out if you want to ping me directly at devan (at) hrpartner.io Good luck with Churchetto.