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We're a small team, and we don't have a whole marketing and web team to build stuff for us. They're experiments! Think of this like an 0.1 of an open source pr

by idan 4y ago

We're a small team, and we don't have a whole marketing and web team to build stuff for us. They're experiments! Think of this like an 0.1 of an open source project; it's gonna have bugs, it's going to have rough edges. We aren't going to pretend otherwise :D

movedx 4y ago
- cal85 4y ago
  What an obnoxious, domineering comment.
  - movedx 4y ago
    What a useless piece of feedback, lacking any form of constructive substance whatsoever. At least offer me something to work with here.
- thestepafter 4y ago
  Simple is always better, especially if you are a small team. For example, there is no reason to scroll jack the site. It makes it extremely difficult to navigate and at least for myself, I immediately close the tab if scroll jacking is in place. Let your product speak for itself, don't over complicate things or you will lose user confidence.
  - movedx 4y ago
    Indeed. Scroll hijacking is simply the worst, honestly. I can appreciate that they tried to make it flow better and present the ideas in a context, but it's a lot of complexity to tell me about a product. It's also risky, because now it doesn't work and I can only assume other overly engineered thought processes have been applied to the product itself. First impressions matter.
- Kiro 4y ago
  I'm sure your client will be happy to see that you're using them as leverage in your toxic rants.
  - movedx 4y ago
    :thumbs-up-emoji:
pvg 4y ago
That's totally understandable but it doesn't take the expertise of a marketing team to notice the problems here. Just think whether you personally would like to find out about some neat new feature of a tool you use through some weird janky scrolljacking page which then takes you to a waitlist. And then something about a video presentation and a pinky promise the waitlist is short. I'm guessing you probably don't, like most people. A 0.1 of an open source project can have a lot of rough edges but doesn't have any of this ceremony.

by idan 4y ago

movedx 4y ago

cal85 4y ago
What an obnoxious, domineering comment.
- movedx 4y ago
  What a useless piece of feedback, lacking any form of constructive substance whatsoever. At least offer me something to work with here.
thestepafter 4y ago
Simple is always better, especially if you are a small team. For example, there is no reason to scroll jack the site. It makes it extremely difficult to navigate and at least for myself, I immediately close the tab if scroll jacking is in place. Let your product speak for itself, don't over complicate things or you will lose user confidence.
- movedx 4y ago
  Indeed. Scroll hijacking is simply the worst, honestly. I can appreciate that they tried to make it flow better and present the ideas in a context, but it's a lot of complexity to tell me about a product. It's also risky, because now it doesn't work and I can only assume other overly engineered thought processes have been applied to the product itself. First impressions matter.
Kiro 4y ago
I'm sure your client will be happy to see that you're using them as leverage in your toxic rants.
- movedx 4y ago
  :thumbs-up-emoji:

pvg 4y ago

That's totally understandable but it doesn't take the expertise of a marketing team to notice the problems here. Just think whether you personally would like to find out about some neat new feature of a tool you use through some weird janky scrolljacking page which then takes you to a waitlist. And then something about a video presentation and a pinky promise the waitlist is short. I'm guessing you probably don't, like most people. A 0.1 of an open source project can have a lot of rough edges but doesn't have any of this ceremony.