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Congrats on the launch. Now put a giant, 30 second video of the product being used, directly below "Design by hand.Code by agent." No one is clicking Get Star
by evancaine 6mo ago
Congrats on the launch.
Now put a giant, 30 second video of the product being used, directly below "Design by hand.Code by agent."
No one is clicking Get Started or Buy Now until they know what the product is, and a 30 second video is 100x better than any amount of text.
- SirHound 6mo agoI did have a video on for launch but removed it when I added CSS Studio itself to the page (check top right). Perhaps it can make a return though!
- gianthard 6mo agoThe video better be visible on mobile. I read HN on phone.
- SirHound 6mo agoIt's a fair point - deployed
- bossyTeacher 6mo agoYou need a video. Time is money
- SirHound 6mo agoIt's up!
- serial_dev 6mo agoI’m on mobile, I’d much rather see some visual demo, ideally video, explaining your product in 60 seconds or less than try to tap around in the live demo.
- SirHound 6mo agoIt's a great point, I added the video back
- sassymuffinz 6mo agoI'll be honest I didn't notice it sitting up there in the top right until I saw this message, it's in that area I ignore where people usually put social logos etc. Anyway - question on the software itself, how would CSS changes feed through to the code? Inline CSS, utility classes if you're using a framework? Does it support using something like Vite for compiling?
- SirHound 6mo agoAll the technical decisions are yours. If you defined a padding (for instance) in a stylesheet, this is where updates will be applied. Likewise if it was on a style attr or elsewhere.
- yoz-y 6mo agoI think it would be preferable if the agent figured out the right place to do this. When I debug CSS or toy with styling, I will often edit the element styles directly but naturally I would like them to be applied within classes the element has, or maybe add a new utility. Never would I put styles on the element. I suppose that in the same fashion, if your project uses tailwind or something, you will edit styles manually but when you get it right you want them to be added as “whatever the code uses”
- SirHound 6mo agoSorry, I mean to say the agent does figure out the right place, based on your technical decisions. So if you want to use classes it isn't going to start adding style attributes. The skill contains instructions about following the existing setup within the codebase.
- sassymuffinz 6mo agoSo if I’m using Tailwibd let’s say, and then I adjust the padding on an element does it update the HTML (or does the agent update my html) with an alternative padding class like p-4 or p-[11px] or something if nothing matches?
- threethirtytwo 6mo agobro listen to the guy above you. You need the lowest friction way to help users visualize what this is. By low friction I mean the exact way tik tok gets people to watch thousands of videos for hours. Only one click and zero brain power. I wanted to buy this. I tried the demo, but then I hit a wall of no agent connected and gave up and came here looking for reviews on whether this is good or shit.
- SirHound 6mo agoYeah about an hour before you sent this I updated the homepage with a video.
- andreasley 6mo agoUnfortunately, that video does not explain anything at all. I now know that the product can be used with a mouse, that I can select things and set some properties. Who is it for? What does it do? Why should I use it?
- BloondAndDoom 6mo ago“Don’t show them the keys of the piano, play the moonlight sonata. “ The key to a good demo is not listing or even showing the features, it’s showing them what they can accomplish with it. You need to inspire your prospects.
- upmostly 6mo agoThis comment was surprising to me. I never considered that people want to watch a video in this day and age when they can try the real thing. Perhaps I've fallen into that trap with the product [1] I'm building. I have a "Live Demo" button on the landing page and thought that would be enough? I'm going to reconsider... 1. https://dbpro.app https://dbpro.app
- noodlesUK 6mo agoI think there’s a big difference in commitment between the level of friction in signing up for a service and spending a couple of min on orienting myself and clicking play and watching the happy path go for 30s.
- sebmellen 6mo agoVery cool app. How do you feel it compares to something like TablePlus?
- jaredklewis 6mo agoPerhaps it depends on the product, but interacting with demo almost certainly requires more effort than to watch someone else do a demo. As for me, I’d like to watch a short clip (or at least see screenshots) before I try to demo anything.
- mikenikles 6mo agoI added an interactive demo to my product's landing page [1], thinking people would prefer that over yet another product video. However, your comment hit me... :-) I'm going to record a video! [1] https://seaquel.app https://seaquel.app
- kruxigt 6mo ago[dead]
- avtar 6mo agoTBH that part of your landing page exhibits some confusing UX. Perhaps it's just me but when I see a UI image with a play button I assume that clicking it is going to play a video, not redirect me to a login page.
- cush 6mo agoSeriously though. And this is a design company?