Ask HN: Roast my startup landing page
Hey All :)
Before my team build a new campaign landing, please roast and give feedback on our current landing for us to consider for our new one!
https://symbols-beta.framer.website/
Before my team build a new campaign landing, please roast and give feedback on our current landing for us to consider for our new one!
https://symbols-beta.framer.website/
Slow and unresponsive; noticeable immediately when scrolling. Scrolling through triggers a low-grade physical pain, like you get when buffering a streaming video. Huge download size, and generally bad performance. Confirmed by PageSpeedInsights. This is a landing page with informational content; you must have actively tried to have performance this bad.
Basic fake review widget.
You don't have a startup; you have a website selling to other devs Ouroboros-style.
On the plus side, you didn't use the phrase "blazingly fast", or lie about big organizations using your website.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=joshsymbols
The roast avenue is a "not so subtle" workaround to an ongoing pattern of a somewhat shameless marketing campaign. OP - this likely won't have any measurable effect on your future behavior but Hacker News is not just about promotion. It's about giving back to the community and contributing to the discussion.
Actual Feedback: I got a black screen with a long scroll bar. Scrolling down, I got near the bottom and spotted a sentence in white text.
Scrolled back up to it, and then noticed content starting to appear.
Scrolled all the way back to the top and saw content appearing bit by bit.
It's definitely taking way too long to populate, because I should not have been able to scroll so far without seeing at least some sort of content at the start. The priority should be on what is shown on the immediate screen, instead of populating in what looks like a random order. It'll at least feel a whole lot faster if the slow-to-load stuff is initially offscreen below, and the top of the page rendered immediately so there is no wait.
Too much text. Simplify and make it a single small sentence.
It’s very slow and sluggish on my iPhone 14 when I increase the text size. There’s a really irritating fading effect.
Way too long, way too many animations that are too slow, videos that don't play, lots of text that don't say very much. Can you trim it down significantly and highlight what actually matters? Make it skimmable. And please turn off the annoying loading delays that prevent fast scrolling.
Bento cards would also reduce the landing page significantly.
Your video embeds literally aren't loading.