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Someone on your team is a talented designer and has built a beautiful site. Unfortunately, the scroll-jacking and large visuals take away from the UX side of things. Ask yourself which of those images clarifies your service and which distract from the message you are trying to communicate.

Oh, and change 'Our business model explained'. That language makes sense for startup junkies and business folk. But, has no place on your landing page, something like 'How we'll help you find a renter' is much more relevant to your audience.

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> Unfortunately, the scroll-jacking and large visuals take away from the UX side of things.

This. I didn't proceed through site because I can't stand scroll-jacking.

Same. I don't have time to figure out what novelty you've substituted for normal scrolling, but when there's no scroll bar and "Page Down" doesn't do anything, I move on.

It's one of the worst offenders I've ever seen.

You know those carousels everybody hates that everybody puts on their websites... this startup made their entire website a carousel :(

Might be bad on Desktop but completely breaks the site on iPhone

I also have left basically not knowing what your company does because of that scroll-diddling

Also, some of the text on this site is actually very difficult to read due to lack of contrast with the background images. (Specifically, the concierge and repairs text against the image of the woman with the long blonde hair).

Founder here. Just wanted to say I hear you and the other comments below echo'ing your feedback and am going to get on it!

This is a static page. It doesn't need JavaScript. It doesn't need a loading screen. It doesn't need scroll-jacking. It doesn't need to pollute my browser history.

These kinds of decisions make zero sense to me. It's not only easier to implement a static page without all this stuff, it's more pleasant to the people you want looking at the page.

You have grammatical mistakes and poor design choices (thin white text which runs over a woman's blonde hair).

The page weighs in at 38.1 MB and took my browser 20 seconds to load.

Even if the scroll-jacking wasn't a bother, it performs horribly and takes seconds to move between pages.

Sorry to be harsh, but I can't believe any reasonable person took a look at this and gave it an okay.

Everything said here is true. You have maybe 10-15 small sentences of information and that's it. Waiting 42 seconds to read 15 sentences is plainly unacceptable. 42 seconds is no exaggeration, I timed it.

I'm on a low ram macbook pro (and have docker VMs running atm), the choppiness of that page was insane haha.

funny thing, it doesn't find you a renter, it helps you rent out a place from someone else.

The messaging is bad, it took me a while to work that part out

https://jetsmarter.com/

Oh boy. And in Tenence's html:

> <html ng-app=JetSmarter>

Definitely not a good look at all.

Talk about an embarrassing flop.

Making renting easier shouldn't require UX. Just eli5 on a motherfuckingwebsite style page.

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