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Why should I (or anyone else) spend 5 minutes (or about 1/50 of my free time today) figuring out what someone's product does? I don't care about every web app.
by leoedin 13y ago
Why should I (or anyone else) spend 5 minutes (or about 1/50 of my free time today) figuring out what someone's product does? I don't care about every web app. Most of them are entirely useless to me. The likelihood is, this one is as well.
Is it really, actually, sad that everyone who clicks a link on Hacker News doesn't spend 5 minutes watching a video to figure out what a web app even does? I think we should celebrate the fact that most people live busy lives doing things that matter to them.
If you force your potential customers to do research to figure out what you do you're going to lose most of the people who may actually use your service but couldn't figure out what you do in the 20 seconds they devoted to your site. It's the lowest of the low hanging fruit.
- samstave 13y agoI'm willing to be you spent more time writing this response than it would have for you to have watched the demo vid that auto plays on their site had you just scrolled down. You, appear to me, to have some sort of ingrained attitude against having patience and curiosity. I presume you're a type where you expect every post made to be backed up with links to information you'd be able to google yourself in under 30 seconds.
- specialist 13y agosome sort of ingrained attitude against having patience and curiosity Please. You assume too much. In an attention economy, our most precious resource is our time. If someone wants my attention, they have to do the work. If I gave everything the attention it deserved, I'd never get anything done. I only looked at trext (at all) because another commenter said the demo video was great (and it is).