Comment by elishah | Hacker News Reader

Comment by elishah | Hacker News Reader

1. Completely broken with javascript disabled. Which is to say, completely broken.

2. When permitted javascript, it appears to use it to... intentionally fill in page contents slowly? It's hard to fully convey how obnoxious this is.

3. I assume you're aware that the "Pricing" link at the top goes to a page that contains no information whatsoever about pricing?

4. For the FAQ page (which is somehow also the pricing page, despite the lack of pricing?), having to manually open and close each question is cumbersome and annoying. Or rather, it would be only cumbersome and annoying, except that you have once again introduced the "intentionally slow down displaying content" javascript, which makes it outright infuriating.

5. Clicking on "Products" does absolutely nothing. Hovering over "Products" brings up some obnoxious little micro-lightbox bullshit.

6. Clicking on either of the items in the obnoxious little micro-lightbox bullshit takes you to... the front page of the site. The entire site appears to only have two pages, so why are you insistent on pretending that it's four?

7. The fact that one of the first problems that this site with wretched UX claims to be able to solve is "Poor UX" is some absolutely top shelf comedy. My compliments to whichever troll managed to sneak that joke in.

Piling on to #2, get rid of the fancy animations and fade ins. For a developer audience especially this is meaningless posturing that's impressing no one.

I liked it :)

did you like it so much that you initiated a consult?

I have no use for the service...

I'm a hard disagree here as a dev. The timing is too slow for me (i'd half or third the delay) and perhaps lower the transition duration a hair. But the effect itself was quite nice and gave me a strong sense of polish and quality.

I'm in-between you and the comment you replied to on whether or not to keep the animations or if they add value. I kinda don't care one way or the other.

However, I think the current implementation is a real problem. I'm using an old phone. I scroll down and there's nothing but white for a while until things start popping up. It's blank long enough for me to start wondering what's wrong. At that point, I'm not really thinking about the content.

We need to fix the mobile compatibility issues.

Thank you!

I like the animations but most folks here seems to hate it. Since we're using Webflow with a template it might not be that easy to remove animation.

We're going to improve the load time by half.

Thank you so much!

I agree. It needs to fade in much faster.

We'll do that. It's added to our task list.

Thank you so much!

I'd advise OP to keep #1 going: As a fledgling company you don't want to waste time time on the kind of person who sticks a 2x4 in their bike tire and then yells at you for not being more accomodating.

The light chasing affect before each page load is hopefully a bug (it's ok to show that once, but every page change gets old)

Overall clearly the site is incomplete, I think OP should go through the site on Chrome and Safari and clean up the broken links. I suspect OP wanted a brutal review of their core offering (ie we'd put in API links)

Unfortunately it's not easy to get people to do that OP: You're asking for API access without showing what the product does. I'd move your screenshot of a terminal up as a hero image (for inspiration: https://www.warp.dev/warp-ai) and hopefully you'll get a better conversion rate to actually trying it out.

Also maybe a creative "cheat" here, OpenAI plugins require publicly accessible APIs. Maybe instead of asking people for their own schema, offer reviews of the publically available plugin APIs (which there are a ton of)

Seconding this. Don't listen to HN nerd shit. Listen to paying customers. Nobody with a budget gives a fuck about "javascript disabled"

Their call on the first bit, but I can assure that that your last statement is at least off by one. My budget for this year was eight figures, and extends to things like what this product appears to be.

And while I'll admit that I wouldn't make a purchasing decision based exclusively on javascript fuckery, it definitely does mean that my first impression is to doubt their technical judgment.

Why should a website with static content need JavaScript to display?

I didn't say it should. I'm saying don't worry about it if it doesn't matter to your customers.

Customers definitely care whether a site loads instantly or in 10 seconds.

That has very little to do with having javascript on your page.

It has everything to do. Sites without JavaScript load fast unless you really screw something up.

thanks

Thank you so much!

1-2. We're using Webflow and it seems these guys required jQuery and similar javascript libraries. 3. Pricing link is broken we didn't realize it. 4. Agree, we'll change FAQs to full view. 5. Yup, it only shows on hover. We can change it to click I think that's much better. 6. I thought having important links in the nav-bar makes it easier for the users. Anyways I'll take another look and fix it. 7. Lol!

Thank you so much for the feedback! It seems lot to improve!

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