I just started to promote my side project[0] and I guess I am in a more or less comparable situation. I work alone and my time for this is limited. First I foc

I just started to promote my side project[0] and I guess I am in a more or less comparable situation. I work alone and my time for this is limited. First I focused on getting the product usable and that the documentation is somehow understandable with some code examples. My design skills are very limited, and since I build something for a technical audience, I though that the look of my website would not matter that much. That was until Zach from headlinr[1] made me change the layout. Since I have a more or less decent looking website I get significantly more sign-ups and the logs show that visitors take more time to explore the content. So with this new knowledge, I would vote for nice and shiny with minimal functionality first. Get something online as soon as possible. Just to get indexed etc. but do not underestimate the rejection caused by bad design. [0] http://template2pdf.com/ http://template2pdf.com/ [1] http://headlinr.com/ http://headlinr.com/