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I think you can improve by design & copywriting. There's too much text on the homepage for such a simple tool. Can you explain it in 1 sentence? Spend a few hou

I think you can improve by design & copywriting. There's too much text on the homepage for such a simple tool. Can you explain it in 1 sentence? Spend a few hours mangling a sentence together. That's one. Second, focus on talking to the few users you have, see what they like/don't like. Even while keeping it minimal, I am reasonably sure you can still improve the experience a lot. Don't add features, but polish polish polish. Is the entry field perfect. Can it be faster? Etc.. Once you do that, and once you start to hear feedback that your users really truly love it, then you can start worrying about promoting it :) In other words: it's not because you want to keep it minimal that you're done.

tewks 16y ago
I agree, especially with regards to the headings. Helvetica Neue Light is pretty but hard to read.
famfam 16y ago
Great points. I've seen the light on the homepage thanks to HN. I need to decide if I want to forego the homepage altogether, just revise it, or somehow merge it into the todo page. Copywriting is not my strong point, but I think I can edit. I'll definitely really try to optimize this. On the second point, I'm a user of the app myself and haven't found any pain points. I'm not really hearing about pain points from users either. It's really just new features people seem to want. But I do think I need to think about how I can incorporate these ideas into a framework of simplicity -- not just discount the ideas outright as a perversion of my vision :)