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Zap: Payments for the universe
- lux 14y agoIf your tagline is "Payments for the Universe", does that mean it'll be available outside of the US?
- ldn_tech_exec1 14y agothis is genius, love how stars in the nearfield are moving faster. this is straight dope.
- bkanber 14y agoI don't want to put my email address into something without first knowing what it is.
- sjtgraham 14y agoEntirely valid, and I appreciate that. How often in general do you enter your email into a landing page, even when you have very comprehensive information about the nascent product in question?
- jc4p 14y agoI routinely sign up for e-mail lists if it's a product I'm interested in and want to know more about in the future. A text box in front of a slogan and a cool background? Not so much.
- kaolinite 14y agoOh god it's working.. I want to put my email in, just in case something happens. But er, I'm not going to. I need more info about the service first :-)
- agscala 14y agoLooks cool, but the ultimate tactic for landing page conversion is actually having content. Why bother with a empty landing page like this? Would it really be so bad to wait a little until this company actually has something to show for itself?
- andrew_wc_brown 14y agoHaha I thought it was a search bar. When you visit the page the text field already has focus so I had no idea I was suppose to type an email.
- sjtgraham 14y agoThanks. What browser are you using?
- TomGullen 14y agoI don't like it at all. Don't even know what I'm supposed to be looking at. Why would I give my email address?
- jdevonport 14y agoWonderful, mysterious... I really like it!
- petermk 14y agoWas hoping it would go into warp when I entered my email. Was disappointed. Thankfully I used a fake email.
- DoubeMalt 14y agoI'd love a great payment service that works outside of the USA. But without at least a bit of an outline this could as well be a email harvesting operation.
- sismoc 14y agoHmmmm, email harvesting as a substitute for products/services.
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoI know this looks cool and all but what about including more information below the fold? It wouldn't interrupt the cool design and would give more information to folks like me who don't just sign up for every service for the hell of it. The lack of information conveys a lack of product, regardless of how true that might be. No screenshots, no information on features, not even a contact or Twitter. I'd really rather get more information before I start getting emails about the service. This is especially true when there are already viable options like PayPal and Stripe, where I can go and find full feature lists.
- carlsednaoui 14y agoWould have loved to see more than moving stars and a signup box.
- sjtgraham 14y agoOk so I submitted this with the title "What are your tactics for landing page conversion? I'm trying novelty" hoping to get feedback on my approach and start a conversation around general tactics. Unfortunately someone with admin changed the title to "Zap: Payments for the universe". This was also intended as an experiment to how an extremely sceptical audience would react to such a spartan page with a novel visual effect as a differentiator. Now the experiment has effectively been torpedoed by this change, and now looks super corny. Hopefully this comment gets enough up votes to stay reasonably visible so the community know what is up.
- ArekDymalski 14y agoActually now your experiment will give you more clear data about reaction (conversion).
- tutuca 14y agoAnd data about admin abuse.
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- racbart 14y agoThere's a tiny chance that I use some throwaway email just to see what's next, knowing your original title. Without knowing that, there's no chance - I simply ignore a meaningless and containing zero information page which asks for my email. So this could be a test only if people wouldn't know that, so the title change did you some good.
- sjtgraham 14y agoApart from simultaneous banishment this from the front page. Net bad.
- ArekDymalski 14y agoFor any finance-related company the most important thing is trust. Are you sure you can build it this way?
- pknerd 14y agoI really don't get why this post come on front page of HN and what am I learning from the site.
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