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How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

gunalx 1y ago
If ypu have no idea you probably dont want it tough
- stavros 1y ago
  That assumes that everyone who wants your product already knows about it, which is true of zero products.
  - yoavm 1y ago
    When the core of the "product" is support, it feels quite safe to say that if you don't know what hyprland is you'd probably won't be interested in hyprland support.
  - marcusb 1y ago
    Agreed, but for this particular product, the number is probably a lot closer to zero than average.
tartakovsky 1y ago
I clicked 3 different links failing at answering that question for myself and then I stopped caring, though not enough to pass up one-upping your comment.
kjuulh 1y ago
It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.
- tartakovsky 1y ago
  This landing page also fails to properly describe anything I understand.
  - homebrewer 1y ago
    It's sway with eye-candy. (Or, if you don't know about sway, the Wayland version of i3 — also with eye-candy). If you're still not sure, you're simply not the target audience, these things almost always require further learning and customization, so some level of gate-keeping from the start is helpful.
    - sheepscreek 1y ago
      Yep this - you’re not the target audience. It’s a UI desktop layer for Linux, made for the enthusiast. But also, OP posted a link that is not mobile friendly (at least on safari) and doesn’t say much about what this is. The main page does a fine job though (for those would care I guess).
  - dartharva 1y ago
    Then that's honestly not on them.
- Waterluvian 1y ago
  There’s got to be a term for this given how I see it daily: when experts are so hyper focused that they’re not even aware they might have to at least indicate what a compositor even is. I think a common response is that if you don’t know, you’re not the audience anyways. But that lops off your customer funnel and limits the general awareness of your product. You want to bring everyone one step closer to your product from wherever they are.
  - Akronymus 1y ago
    average familiarity [1] comes to mind. 1 https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
echelon 1y ago
It's a tiling window manager for a few Linux distros. Arch, not Ubuntu.
- rc00 1y ago
  https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=hyprland https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&...
  - echelon 1y ago
    Sure, but their own install page recommends against it: > distros like Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, etc. will have major issues running Hyprland.
AstroBen 1y ago
> How to fail at a product website ..but they've been really successful in their niche.. maybe your intuition is off?
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WD-42 1y ago
Neither the developers of Hypr nor the users care about having a good "product website" calling a window manager a product in the first place is already weird and just kinda shows you aren't the target audience. Not everything is trying to be the next iPhone.

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

gunalx 1y ago

If ypu have no idea you probably dont want it tough

stavros 1y ago
That assumes that everyone who wants your product already knows about it, which is true of zero products.
- yoavm 1y ago
  When the core of the "product" is support, it feels quite safe to say that if you don't know what hyprland is you'd probably won't be interested in hyprland support.
- marcusb 1y ago
  Agreed, but for this particular product, the number is probably a lot closer to zero than average.

tartakovsky 1y ago

I clicked 3 different links failing at answering that question for myself and then I stopped caring, though not enough to pass up one-upping your comment.

kjuulh 1y ago

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

tartakovsky 1y ago
This landing page also fails to properly describe anything I understand.
- homebrewer 1y ago
  It's sway with eye-candy. (Or, if you don't know about sway, the Wayland version of i3 — also with eye-candy). If you're still not sure, you're simply not the target audience, these things almost always require further learning and customization, so some level of gate-keeping from the start is helpful.
  - sheepscreek 1y ago
    Yep this - you’re not the target audience. It’s a UI desktop layer for Linux, made for the enthusiast. But also, OP posted a link that is not mobile friendly (at least on safari) and doesn’t say much about what this is. The main page does a fine job though (for those would care I guess).
- dartharva 1y ago
  Then that's honestly not on them.
Waterluvian 1y ago
There’s got to be a term for this given how I see it daily: when experts are so hyper focused that they’re not even aware they might have to at least indicate what a compositor even is. I think a common response is that if you don’t know, you’re not the audience anyways. But that lops off your customer funnel and limits the general awareness of your product. You want to bring everyone one step closer to your product from wherever they are.
- Akronymus 1y ago
  average familiarity [1] comes to mind. 1 https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/

echelon 1y ago

It's a tiling window manager for a few Linux distros. Arch, not Ubuntu.

rc00 1y ago
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=hyprland https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&...
- echelon 1y ago
  Sure, but their own install page recommends against it: > distros like Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, etc. will have major issues running Hyprland.

AstroBen 1y ago

> How to fail at a product website ..but they've been really successful in their niche.. maybe your intuition is off?

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WD-42 1y ago

Neither the developers of Hypr nor the users care about having a good "product website" calling a window manager a product in the first place is already weird and just kinda shows you aren't the target audience. Not everything is trying to be the next iPhone.