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if i could have a suggestion, rethink the home page design again. I was stunned because I couldn't focus on anything, I didn't understand what I was looking at for a good 5 seconds. My main complaint: the images are too big and the text too small. The information that you can lock using your fingerprint is unreasonably more prominent than the information about what the product is and where you can get it.

Good luck, we need privacy oriented tools!

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Haha thanks for the feedback. I definitely am hearing some echos. I was inspired by apples keynote grid design but then realized maybe for a landing page it’s a bit too chaotic? And your eyes don’t have a linear place to start and have to do some extra work. Definitely thinking ways to mitigate this.

There are a few different issues. I think part of the problem is that it looks a bit busy but ok when the window is narrow. But at full width on my screen I get 5 columns, and nothing to signify what is important. You'd improve it massively by just setting a max width so it's never more than maybe two columns, maybe three at a stretch.

But secondly I think it's a "brand" issue even with two or three columns. You're selling a minimalist app, but the homepage one of the most cluttered I've seen (at my window width, anyway). To give you an idea of how busy it feels, take a look at this page [1] (yes, I'm exaggerating for effect).

I get that you want to showcase everything, but I think you need to really consider that the people to whom the simplicity appeals are not likely to respond to a cluttered homepage.

[1] https://www.arngren.net/

Thanks for the suggestions! Appreciate these honest feedback. May I ask what's your window width? Are you using the full width on an external display?

1920 pixels on a 27" external monitor. And yes, usually full width. I did test your site with narrower windows and it becomes a lot easier to read then, hence why I think a quick and dirty first step you could make it just reducing the maximum number of columns.

Seconded. It took way more than a minute to understand what is going on. I kept coming back to thread and the homepage trying to figure what this note app is even for. I am still not sure if it can be used on the browser or the desktop.

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