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Love the demo links under the search bar: "Try these: TechRadar, AVC, Paul Graham, BBC, Medium, Pulse". I think one mistake a lot of people make on their landi

by ve55 6y ago

Love the demo links under the search bar: "Try these: TechRadar, AVC, Paul Graham, BBC, Medium, Pulse". I think one mistake a lot of people make on their landing page is to just give the user an empty search box and force them to come up with what to type as a test, rather than showing them a test yourself, which I imagine would significantly increase conversion.

justhw 6y ago
Oh definitely! Removing every little friction is key. Thanks
- jtmarmon 6y ago
  Those links are super useful - might I recommend making them a bit more obvious? I didn't notice them until I came back to HN and read the comments
  - mritchie712 6y ago
    agreed, just make the text #fff
- codetrotter 6y ago
  On the demo links the change image box does not work. Whereas on pages where I pasted the URL myself I can change the image. Sorry if that’s a poor explanation of what I mean but I hope it makes sense.
hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
Agreed, like that it was prefilled, but just a note the article for Paul Graham is "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius". But the image that came up wasn't for a bus ticket, it was for a raffle ticket, which basically has nothing to do with a bus ticket except it has the word "ticket" in common. So on one hand it kind of highlighted what I don't like about services like this in that you get relatively dumb results that are basically just doing keyword matches, and the images actually have nothing to do with the story. Edit: OK, actually none of the images really make sense. Since these are curated results I'd expect them to show the best of what can be generated. Instead: - TechRadar, Apple's privacy labels reveals Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger's hunger for user data: Show's a Samsung phone - AVC, Temper Tantrum - AVC: Maybe, kinda fits, but looks to me just like a sad little girl, not a girl having a temper tantrum. - BBC, The nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic - BBC Reel: OK, this one fits exactly, but the image is just taken straight from the blog post. - Medium, I’ve Been in Venture Capital for Two Months. Here’s What Still Makes No Sense: A completely random picture of a forest. - Pulse, If There Aren't Any Typos In This Essay, We Launched Too Late!: A somewhat bizarro picture of someone on a scooter with a rocket on their back. TBH if I wanted to promote my blog post I'd just do my own stock image search and use that instead.
- justhw 6y ago
  It searches for an image only if the post doesn't have an image already. AVC and PG's in this case don't include pics so it made one. It will get better in v2. This is just the mvp version.

by ve55 6y ago

justhw 6y ago

Oh definitely! Removing every little friction is key. Thanks

jtmarmon 6y ago
Those links are super useful - might I recommend making them a bit more obvious? I didn't notice them until I came back to HN and read the comments
- mritchie712 6y ago
  agreed, just make the text #fff
codetrotter 6y ago
On the demo links the change image box does not work. Whereas on pages where I pasted the URL myself I can change the image. Sorry if that’s a poor explanation of what I mean but I hope it makes sense.

hn_throwaway_99 6y ago

Agreed, like that it was prefilled, but just a note the article for Paul Graham is "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius". But the image that came up wasn't for a bus ticket, it was for a raffle ticket, which basically has nothing to do with a bus ticket except it has the word "ticket" in common. So on one hand it kind of highlighted what I don't like about services like this in that you get relatively dumb results that are basically just doing keyword matches, and the images actually have nothing to do with the story. Edit: OK, actually none of the images really make sense. Since these are curated results I'd expect them to show the best of what can be generated. Instead: - TechRadar, Apple's privacy labels reveals Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger's hunger for user data: Show's a Samsung phone - AVC, Temper Tantrum - AVC: Maybe, kinda fits, but looks to me just like a sad little girl, not a girl having a temper tantrum. - BBC, The nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic - BBC Reel: OK, this one fits exactly, but the image is just taken straight from the blog post. - Medium, I’ve Been in Venture Capital for Two Months. Here’s What Still Makes No Sense: A completely random picture of a forest. - Pulse, If There Aren't Any Typos In This Essay, We Launched Too Late!: A somewhat bizarro picture of someone on a scooter with a rocket on their back. TBH if I wanted to promote my blog post I'd just do my own stock image search and use that instead.

justhw 6y ago
It searches for an image only if the post doesn't have an image already. AVC and PG's in this case don't include pics so it made one. It will get better in v2. This is just the mvp version.