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I like building apps, I don't necessarily like writing the same boilerplate BS for a necessary landing page for every app I make. Again, I'm not saying no one
by bko 8mo ago
I like building apps, I don't necessarily like writing the same boilerplate BS for a necessary landing page for every app I make.
Again, I'm not saying no one should write marketing copy, if that's your thing, go for it. Take your time, wordsmith. But for others they don't enjoy it or are not particularly good at it (i.e. English isn't someones first language). So let's be accepting and get over it.
> If this is the case I am desperately pleading with you to please read and write more.
Please stop moralizing.
- contagiousflow 8mo agoIf you're making apps for yourself, sure. But the purpose of a landing page is to convey information to humans. Slopping together some drivel to attempt the appearance of professionalism isn't just lazy, it's dishonest. Have some respect for the things you make and the people who may interact with them. And if you don't want to write boilerplate or copy: don't!
- sebastiennight 8mo ago> I'm not saying no one should write marketing copy, if that's your thing, go for it. Take your time, wordsmith. But for others they don't enjoy it or are not particularly good at it The problem is that the generated "marketing copy" ends up being bland and ineffective (nobody "buys", so the copy fails at its single job) when using generalist LLM tools like eg. ChatGPT. So in the end, you don't achieve the goal of "getting better copy" from it because neither version (neither the copy you'd have done naïvely without knowing anything about marketing, nor the LLM copy) converts anyone.