This would help:
- Change the tagline from "Put the Internet to work for you" to something more descriptive.
- Have a prominent "About" link on the blog. Write an About page, or better put some content on your home page.
Okay, so I can create "connections" on an "if this then that" basis. I need more examples of the sorts of thises and thats that I can use as input and output, though. Like, apparently I can control my home appliances? And... what else?
No, the page in question does have 1 really good example, the if Instagram then Dropbox example. I think the homepage of IFTT would benefit from a nice animation where the "this" and "then" options cycle through various options. It would show how any tigger can be combined with any action and highlight a few of the good use cases.
BTW, really really cool!
I have a highly hacked local user CSS stylesheet to get around the problem of small fonts on too many sites. I rarely have to resize pages, but this one was actually too big.
Something of a novel problem.
And generally my #1 rant about any given tool / webservice / product / etc.
Tell me. In language a five year old would understand. What the fuck your gizmo does for me. What problem does it solve / address?
Prominently on your homepage / project page / blog / manpage / help/about page. Whatever.
That is all.
Further down the line when "normal" people will be adopting this (they will) then the recipes will be the primary selling point IMHO.
Just tak a look at a few of those and you should "get" what it's about.
The problem is that the site doesn't even say what the concept is.
I think you either get it or you don't. Apply whatever abstraction of "get" as you want.
There isn't that much to get really. If you are a programmer if this then that should kind of tell it all.
I am not a programmer (but know how to program a little) and I had no problem "getting" it. I don't believe developers dont get this.
Reading the brief description on the About page or playing with the site for 2 minutes would solve this, but neither of those things are discoverable from the blog post.
A blog in this context seems more to be used to tell people about where in the process a given company, service, product is.
If you are reading the blog there is a big chance that you "get" the product already.
Anyway. It's not my business. And I agree they could have an about up. But it seems to be a problem way down on the priority list. That's just my opinion of course.
Someone might buy the company to offer as part of a home automation type product, but that's about it.