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https://medium.com/hackernoon/for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2f0b835ab92 https://medium.com/hackernoon/for-the-love-of-god-please-te

• Nition 7y ago
  Well at least someone else has noticed. Off-topic but I've also started seeing modern software websites with no screenshots, to the point that I can get a better idea of what a product is like from the screenshots on Google Images than I can from all the text and pretty graphics on the site itself.
  • prawn 7y ago
    I suspect they do that because every update to your software/interface then renders your example screenshots outdated. For a startup at least and in my experience, that's a painful distraction when you want to just focus on building and getting people to your site. But I also go looking for screenshots and appreciate sites that provide them up front.
    • saberdancer 7y ago
      Quite possible but in that case I usually treat the website with scepticism. There are plenty of "fake it till you make it" type of products out there, and no screenshots or photographs on the site is a big signal for problem in my opinion. Getting new screenshots doesn't seem very work intensive plus you can easily put screenshots of an earlier version and a disclaimer that the screenshots may not be fully up to date.
      • prawn 7y ago
        Big companies do it as well, to the point where I can't tell if it's split tested and proven more effective, or just a stylistic thing that they think is more important than effectiveness?
    • true_religion 7y ago
      You can automate the taking of screenshots. Many teams already do this for visual testing of UI. Doing it for marketing pages is similarly easy.
• jessriedel 7y ago
  A good critique for the Nth start-up no one's ever heard of. Less useful for a $20B company owned by, and the future of, General Motors.