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It's hard to be specific. The site at a first glance looks dated and very early 00's. The colour scheme, the stripy background, the layout, the fact it isn't r

It's hard to be specific. The site at a first glance looks dated and very early 00's. The colour scheme, the stripy background, the layout, the fact it isn't responsive (well it tries to be with a burger menu but fails), the GIF clipart (esp. the 'new' graphic and the flags). As a prospective customer you might be a bit put off at first glance and think the software is dated too and go off looking for something newer.

dragonwriter 7y ago
> As a prospective customer The site is selling anything; complaining that the free gift comes in insufficiently fancy wrapping is tacky.
- keenmaster 7y ago
  Non-profit operations have customers too. I think they’d better achieve their mission with a nice website, referral revenue to help with upkeep, and an iOS app for wider reach. People live off of their mobile devices, especially the people that most need free software. I’d totally understand if they don’t have the capacity to do any of that though.
  - mike_hock 7y ago
    Unless the project itself is about the web, a polished fancy website is to me a yellow flag that the project is not open source first but trying to sell me something. A lot of open source projects that are serious about the actual software have ugly websites or even nothing beyond a README.md on Github.
- WillPostForFood 7y ago
  a paid version available on the Mac App Store, sandboxed, automatically updated and bundled with 1400 pieces of furniture and 418 textures. https://apps.apple.com/app/sweet-home-3d/id669289700 https://apps.apple.com/app/sweet-home-3d/id669289700
the_other 7y ago
I can tell you that this prospective customer didn’t care one iota about whether the site looks on-trend. If anything, the site design confirmed the app was likely free and — significantly — probably free of late ‘10s-era tracking/adware/user-as-product nonsense. It actually makes me want to use it. I looked at the screen shots, read the device/OS support and I’m sold. I’ll download it as soon as I have time/energy. If it had a mobile version, I’d have run it, but I fully expect to only want to use it on larger format devices. I’m happy to be proved wrong, but I doubt a purely touch interface would ease creation of a model of my weird-shaped rooms.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> As a prospective customer The site is selling anything; complaining that the free gift comes in insufficiently fancy wrapping is tacky.

keenmaster 7y ago
Non-profit operations have customers too. I think they’d better achieve their mission with a nice website, referral revenue to help with upkeep, and an iOS app for wider reach. People live off of their mobile devices, especially the people that most need free software. I’d totally understand if they don’t have the capacity to do any of that though.
- mike_hock 7y ago
  Unless the project itself is about the web, a polished fancy website is to me a yellow flag that the project is not open source first but trying to sell me something. A lot of open source projects that are serious about the actual software have ugly websites or even nothing beyond a README.md on Github.
WillPostForFood 7y ago
a paid version available on the Mac App Store, sandboxed, automatically updated and bundled with 1400 pieces of furniture and 418 textures. https://apps.apple.com/app/sweet-home-3d/id669289700 https://apps.apple.com/app/sweet-home-3d/id669289700

the_other 7y ago

I can tell you that this prospective customer didn’t care one iota about whether the site looks on-trend. If anything, the site design confirmed the app was likely free and — significantly — probably free of late ‘10s-era tracking/adware/user-as-product nonsense. It actually makes me want to use it. I looked at the screen shots, read the device/OS support and I’m sold. I’ll download it as soon as I have time/energy. If it had a mobile version, I’d have run it, but I fully expect to only want to use it on larger format devices. I’m happy to be proved wrong, but I doubt a purely touch interface would ease creation of a model of my weird-shaped rooms.