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Ask HN: What about this landing page? Does it rock as it should?
Hi everyone.
This is my first submit on Hacker News, but I've been reading and loving it for months now.
Some friends of mine and I are developing a web app called Dayri that lets you keep your diary online. And as every startup, we had to design and ship a landing page. We would love to hear your feedback about it. :)
http://dayri.me/
I think that there are too many similar landing pages, if not alike, and therefore I came up with this. We wanted to give a unique look to Dayri and, at the same time, we tried to find a way to get more subscribers.
In your opinion how does it look? Is it comfortable or you get tired after the second scroll?
We originally conceived five slides but we suddenly realized that it would have just bored the user and got him not to sign up for an invite.
Will
- icey 16y agoThe design looks nice, but the scrolling feels excessive.
- willflagello 16y agoWhat do you mean exactly? Should I increase its speed?
- svmegatron 16y agoI think increasing its speed would be good
- willflagello 16y agoI'll increase the speed for sure. Thank you guys. :)
- illdave 16y agoClickable: http://dayri.me http://dayri.me I'm not really your target audience, but I just wanted to say that, on an iPad, that tap-to-scroll-down is extremely satisfying. :)
- willflagello 16y agoThank you for the feedback, illdave. We hadn't tested it on an iPad yet. Thanks. :)
- rch 16y agoNice implementation, but your worries are justified. Try a high impact landing page, and redeploy this in an 'about' context. Maybe work a seamless sign-up, or some other 'action' into every slide as well. If you are really keen on what you've got, compare it to this one... http://thehagency.com/ http://thehagency.com/ http://thehagency.com/start.html http://thehagency.com/start.html
- willflagello 16y agoOh, well... That is fantastic. Many thanks for the feedback. :)
- seto28 16y ago4 clicks just to get the form? I don't think so...
- SethBroomer 16y agoI don't like the verbage here. I would Just say: Click on the page to go ahead. The "It's Worth it" is a turn off to me. I agree with set028 that 4 clicks to the bottom is way to much. Instead maybe you could do something like this: 1. Have your logo and tag line at the top 2. In the center put your messaging and have the user either click it to scroll to the next message or do it automatically ever N seconds 3. Have the sign up at the bottom i.e. make it fit on a 1024x768 screen so that the user always sees your company name and how to sign up. Hope that makes sense
- willflagello 16y agoYou're right, it's better without "It's worth it". Your idea is nice and you're also right about the logo because if you see the page for the first time you don't understand what it is about. But this is part of the "I want to know more about it" effect, even if I agree with you that the logo should be visible. It's just that in the page as it is now I don't know where to place it.
- iworkforthem 16y agoI agree too.. after 2 clicks if I still dun get it, I leave. Suggest you put in your form after the 2rd click.
- willflagello 16y agoMmm... But with just 2 slides you don't understand much. It's also true that it already leaves you some questions because we didn't want to say almost anything about Dayri and how it works.
- iworkforthem 16y agoPeople use to say that about Twitter.. How much can we say in 144 characters... :P
- sharadgopal 16y agoI use OhLife[1] to keep a somewhat regular journal online. You all might want to check out their landing page, its very neat and to the point. On your website, after about two scrolls, I didn't want to keep going. Also maybe make the font a little thicker/bolder. Good luck. [1]http://ohlife.com/ http://ohlife.com/
- willflagello 16y agoI already knew OhLife but thanks for the feedback. Sadly that font, bolder, is a bit ugly.
- rome 16y agoI think it's very creative. It really got my attention and made me curious. I agree with SethBroomer concerning 'itsworthit." I was looking for a bigger payoff than the well done layout and curious quotes. I was looking for a big point to be made at the end. "How is dayri.me a brand new way?" Is the question I left with.
- willflagello 16y agoThank you for this precious feedback. I'll think about this. :)
- kerben 16y agoI thought the design was cool and creative and I agree with illdave that on an iPad the scroll is satisfying. Can you please explain what is special about your diary? How is it different than a private blog? I felt you emphasized the privacy policy a bit too much. I thought you would appreciate the design of another site (also vertical scroll), see http://benthebodyguard.com http://benthebodyguard.com Good luck!
- willflagello 16y agoThank you kerben. I already knew Ben The Bodyguard and it is fantastic, I love it. Well, let's say that Dayri will let you write about your day in less than 2 minutes. And it won't be a private blog, it's a completely different concept. :)
- manicbovine 16y agoShould "everywhere" be "anywhere"? To me, "Click everywhere to go ahead" means that, in order to proceed, I must click everywhere.
- willflagello 16y agoI don't understand the difference but "anywhere" is nicer, it sounds better. :)
- lovskogen 16y agoTL:DR I though each slide had to much text for me to read before I could get to the point. I also missed exactly -what- this service did. It's market (why keeping diaries is good) not brand (why dayri is good).
- willflagello 16y agoAs I said in another comment, we didn't want to say anything about Dayri.
- willflagello 16y agoYou can find a little preview of its design here http://drbl.in/VdP http://drbl.in/VdP Okay, it's not much but what do you think?
- vshlos 16y agoI thought its too much and by the time I click on it and it scrolled over, i forgot what the first part was. Also, too many screens to go through. Cool effect and unique, but i would do if for like 1 or 2 slides and quicker.
- willflagello 16y agoThanks for the feedback. We'll find a solution. :)