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I clicked the 'Make Your Website' CTA immediately hit the signup form and promptly bounced. That is not to say this thing won't be successful, just that I am cl
by recuter 4y ago
I clicked the 'Make Your Website' CTA immediately hit the signup form and promptly bounced. That is not to say this thing won't be successful, just that I am clearly not the target audience.
It might be worth it to expose a way to try it out and explain why I should use it over the many other ones like it. Or not. Whatever converts better.
But if not on the website itself at least tell us these things here in the Show HN :)
My question: whom are you targeting? And how will you get at 'em?
- philip1209 4y agoHey! Yeah, some site builders don't require you to create an account to try the product. I take a different approach so that the site is mostly pre-filled by the time you see it. I try to address this by linking to a bunch of Postcard example sites on the homepage. For why to use Postcard - I'm setting out to build "dependable tech tools" [1]. I think we need more unitasker applications that just do a good job, and just stick around. And, personal websites are something that I think more people should have - but, that no big VC-backed startup will ever focus on because it's a small market. Postcards themself are a great personal website that's well-designed and has a nicely integrated newsletter. The newsletter posts also get featured on the site, and there's features like full-text RSS built-in. [1] https://www.contraption.co/news/introducing-contraption-co https://www.contraption.co/news/introducing-contraption-co
- recuter 4y ago> I try to address this by linking to a bunch of Postcard example sites on the homepage. I think I've developed a sort of blindness to the social proof thing with <human head in a circle and positive text blurb> so it took me a bit to realize those are clickable examples of actual user websites and not just endorsements. Makes sense. > but, that no big VC-backed startup will ever focus on because it's a small market. A ton have come and gone like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous (It even starts with a P, ha, time is a flat circle) I believe it had custom domains at some point and a built in newsletter/rss and the thing that made it popular at the time was that you could email it your posts. You should copy that feature. :) Cool, and good luck.
- philip1209 4y agoThanks! Postcard already supports embedded posts, a newsletter, and even full-text RSS. Check it out in action on my personal site: https://www.philipithomas.com https://www.philipithomas.com
- rroot 4y agoI came to say exactly this.
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