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Easily the worst homepage I've seen in some time.

Zero information, literally no explanation of what the product is.

None of the links go anywhere but the single page.. why even have links?

The website is literally void of information, which should be the only reason to have a website in the first place.

I can only imagine this is being upvoted by spam/shill accounts.

This was presented yesterday at AngelHack, I guess the team built the website as quick as they could. The presentation was quite good. Will have to look into the AngelHack videos to see if they post it.

Actually, it's a rather reasonable homepage for value proposition testing with just two exceptions. I too was irritated by the links-to-nowhere, so that would have to change. And the email CTA is dangerous in that it deters actual signups. Otherwise, this page gets straight to the value proposition and the price, and almost nothing else. It's a reasonable way of quickly testing traction for your idea, especially considering that it was (apparently) a hackathon project.

The value proposition is weak if the consumer wants to know how this works before commuting. It skews data.

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