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Dear people who have product blogs like this: Please put a global header on your blog that says "X is a Y that does Z." In this case, "Digit is a service that h
by Cyberdog 9y ago
Dear people who have product blogs like this: Please put a global header on your blog that says "X is a Y that does Z." In this case, "Digit is a service that helps you automatically save money based on your income and spending." That way, we get some much-needed context when we stumble across your blog articles talking about what you've learned by building and selling your product.
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- beams_of_light 9y agoVirtually every HN article would benefit from these descriptors as well.
- opportune 9y agoEspecially Show HN. Perhaps I shouldn't be too harsh as I've never personally released a product before, but over half of Show HN's leave me asking the question "what is the actual product" and even more "what is the utility of this product."
- dredmorbius 9y agoVery much this. For quite some time, the original of this was my top-rated HN comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_forward_to_marketing_how_to_present_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_...
- spookyuser 9y agoAnd to add to this, if a product is only available in the U.S it should be marked clearly so. I hate having to look either in the <small> text of your website or the fifth page of your sign up process to find out.