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I hate to be the one to bring it to you guys, but your landing page just sucks. Doesn't convince me one bit - in fact I didn't even bother to find out what it sells or what problem it solves for me as a potential customer.

So instead of bitching about it, go and do your homework on landing pages, user interfaces and general usability.

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I lean a little more toward liking the landing page than not. It's not great, but I like the simplicity. Maybe a bigger default font size would be good for me personally, but that's a small problem that I can easily solve.

There is a big difference between simplicity that is properly planned (and tested) and simplicity that comes as a result of lack of design skills.

Compare the two: http://basecamp.com/ and http://plainboards.com/

The amount of text is approximately the same and you might guess which of the two is a successfull product :)

The brown background is, and there's no nice way to say this, particularly unpleasant. Please make that a much lighter colour.

Change E2CA98 to F2EAC8, at least.

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