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I agree with all your points and I would like to add a few of my own on marketing. 8) Make your signup simple, only ask for email address & password. Why would
by sycren 12y ago
I agree with all your points and I would like to add a few of my own on marketing.
8) Make your signup simple, only ask for email address & password. Why would you need a username & email address? Both are unique identifiers for a login.
9) Change your website design.
a) Go to https://wrapbootstrap.com/ https://wrapbootstrap.com/ and look for a product theme perhaps like - http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB02N6L1H http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB02N6L1H
b) Take out the slider and instead either alternate features like - http://www.lostmy.name/ http://www.lostmy.name/ or create separate pages for the content. Separate pages can help out better for SEO.
c) The copy for why I should use your software answers what it is? You haven't attacked any pain points or said how much easier you would make it. You have only mentioned that it would be easier and scale but this isn't a proper answer. The best way to do this is to create a narrative or story around the product.
d) Bear in mind that h1...h6 tags are used for SEO which you don't seem to have. Check out - http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/headers/ http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/headers/ And only use one h1 tag per page as per Google's recommendations.
e) managers@flowstacks.com seems like it might come across as pretentious if you're marketing to developers and startups although it might work well for enterprise customers. Perhaps you should go for hello@flowstacks.com for general queries and you already have support@flowstocks.com for support.
f) Flesh out your about page a bit more, I want to know who you are and why you are doing this, history and motivations.
You could add testimonials to either this page or the homepage. Testimonials at this early point could come from your beta users.
g) Your navigation at the top is broken on your blog page. A home button is added and the sign in / sign up buttons disappear.
h) Minor but the community button on the documentation page goes back to the homepage. Broken?
- jayjohnson 12y agoThis is good feedback with great solutions. We are novice on all things marketing and advertising. Would you be interested in jumping on a hangout/skype to discuss more with us? Jay
- phantom_oracle 12y agoAre you asking me or sycren or us both?
- jayjohnson 12y agoWe are interested in figuring what to build/how to market this and both of you have had great feedback for us. I was reading your post on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7321013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7321013 and that sounds like it's spot on what we are looking to do right now. Are you looking to build something still? If so here's my email: jay@flowstacks.com let's get started!
- phantom_oracle 12y agoI've got a couple of ideas I'd like to dabble with using APIs. I will sign up in the next few days to give the platform a test. I won't mind sharing feedback to help you guys grow, but remember that my actual use of the platform should not be a sole feedback tool, as you'll need consensus among a vast amount of testers to gauge the use of the software. Also, remember not to listen to the users every need. Some are too specific to implement and will bring no value to the product itself.