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I've been working on https://elyxel.com since last May and launched a private beta this week. The biggest takeaway for me so far is that even if it doesn't get much traction I actually finished a long standing side project before jumping to something else. Plus I got the benefit of learning elixir and Phoenix.

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Your website is pretty much blank. Only words on the home page are about, login, and Elyxel. Also this post didn't explain what your project is. The about page contains a vague one sentence description.

You need to explain what problem you are fixing and how your product fixes it if you want to get any traction. People aren't going to signup if they don't know what they are signing up for.

There's definitely an entry barrier with this frontpage. I like what the "about" section says, but it's too big of a jump for a customer to create an account somewhere if you don't even have a screenshot or something similar showing what the webpage actually looks like.

Could you expand a little bit more on the matter of what it is that you do? Thank you!

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