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This looks like a potentially great project, but this is probably the most badly designed landing page of all time. The call to action is a really tiny gray ic
by il 16y ago
This looks like a potentially great project, but this is probably the most badly designed landing page of all time.
The call to action is a really tiny gray icon on the bottom. It made my head hurt just trying to figure out how to sign up for their beta list.
- chrishenn 16y agoReally? I had the opposite reaction. I found the simplicity drew me to the text. At the end I clicked the footer because it seemed shiny/pretty, and it took me right to the email form. I feel like a lot of websites, especially the ones which want me to sign up or understand their service, throw way to much crap at me for it to make sense. Two sentence mission statements, ominous screenshots, and cheeky feature lists only go so far --- in this case I appreciate the straightforward mission statement.
- jpk 16y agoI agree, it's a little obscure. But to be fair, the page is so simple, and there's so few things to explore, it's hard to not get curious about what's in the corners. On the other hand, a poorly calibrated monitor could potentially make the lightish-gray-on-not-quite-as-lightish-gray stuff nigh invisible.
- raquo 16y agoSure, you can see it if you look for it, but the only purpose of this landing page is to collect emails and twitter followers, and it could do that much better if it had a big visible email input field right below the main paragraphs.
- cwilson 16y agoWhile I agree it's not the greatest landing page ever, I don't think it's THAT bad. I spent more time typing this then it took me to read the page and give them my email for an invite.
- stevenj 16y agoWhat does that orange dot signify?
- il 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333
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- xbryanx 16y agoI suspect that it is intentionally hard to find.
- geoffw8 16y agoI didn't spot it at all.
- paulitex 16y agoNo, not the worst. It's not at all ugly. That's something.
- geuis 16y agoI like the simplicity of it. Simple logo, text that isn't under contrasted. Simple description of what they're working on, and simple ways to sign up for notifications.
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- d0m 16y agoI can't talk for others, but I love that page. The "Call to action" button took me literally no time to find and I was happy to click on it. A bit half-page button would have just frustrated me and I wouldn't have subscribed.
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- tyng 16y agoIt's a trick - we all clicked that little gray icon didn't we?