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It's weird that the landing page has "Joe" and "Leo" (uncommon names in India), as placeholder users, but the authors are from India.

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It is weird to hight this as feedback. Choosing very common names for a product intended for a global audience. How is that weird?

It is just weird to me that using those names was perceived as a necessary step.

I agree to the idea of not ignoring Indian names. We do have India names as well on certain screenshots. To distribute well we used all kinds of names. We tried our best to globalize.

Native Spanish speaker that builds software for English speaking markets: I don't think I would write a software or make screenshots where I would think first to put names like Juan or Pedro in them if the target audience is English speakers.

When you're writing English it just feels like the names flow better, that's all (like, avoiding stutter in a sentence, but with names). I don't think it would be fair to say we're just not honoring our roots

Why not?

Also you could use "Joe" and "Pedro" instead. To me it seems even more global.

We used Joe and Pedro on some of our screenshots. Discussion is all about that :)

Valid. I get your point.

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