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I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co

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with all due respect (and it's due - ecommerce is hard work), lose the animations...

As soon as I landed on your page, I wasn't thinking "I wanna buy t-shirts and masks!" I was thinking, "Boy, I've got motion sickness and I hope I don't puke."

Let me just say... I'm not a "motion sickness" type. But looking at your page still gave it to me.

Wow, I clicked because of your comment and I concur, you're not being dramatic, it's pretty overwhelming animation

I think it’s kind of awesome, in its own weird way.

Oh wow. Okay. Yes, ditch the animations. I genuinely cannot stand to use the site :(

You weren't kidding. I underestimated the effect the site would have on me.

You weren’t kidding that they weren’t kidding, I almost vomited.

Some less harsh criticism:

- zigzag circle looks like a visual field migraine before the spinning, cut both replace the logo with something slightly more unique.

- moving text is distracting.

- objects moving left to right and right to left (if you’re dead set on having moving things pick one direction).

- what’s the difference between this and redbubble/zazzle etc?

Wow, I just had flashbacks to homestead.com sites.

Sorry, but those animations are BAAAAD. Arguably worse than https://www.lingscars.com/ .

that's an amazing website! Thanks for sharing.

Have a look at the source code; the warning message is amazing

Wow. I never thought to look at the source.

https://www.lingscars.com/ is so bad that it has gone all the way around the dial back to good (for some value of good).

Your site looks like a satirical fake, nobody in their right mind is going to actually buy something through that.

It honestly looks like a low effort scam website.

the animations and aesthetic are lots of fun, assuming you intend them to be a kind of retro hip nod to an older web era. all these people hating on it have no sense of joy. but i think it might not be right for a site that sells medical gear for a pandemic. also, its hard for me tell based on the masks whether you are extremely online and irony poisoned (very likely) or a right wing grifter (very unlikely but possible)

Ha, glad you had fun! I'm definitely irony poisoned. I'm not sure if it would have the same punch if not for the inappropriateness of the content matter though.

Having a site that is less busy might be helpful....all the motion on your site makes me want to click away immediately.

This feels like a high class GeoCities throwback... Made me both nostalgic and motion sick :D

I'm honestly wondering if this is top-tier HN trolling. If so, well done.

Maybe try fewer animations

Or zero animations, even better.

If you want, I can help you get the <blink> tag working again.

I love your webpage design, but i dislike your products design.

1 for 2. I'll take it!

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