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I find these landing pages that don't let me even have a peek at the actual product, so they can funnel me down the "Try now for free path" really irritating.

I remember not a long ago, the same type of landing page, but this time for Apple's Swift courses, appeared the day after Apple announced Swift programming language on their event.

I guess people nowadays want to research their market, before even write some code.

Hi, author of Harrow/Capistrano here. Actually there's a video on the way, since we're still pre-alpha, so that people can see the (pretty rough) workflows. There's a reason we have't submitted the tool to HN ourselves yet. Yesterday we conducted some Tweet/Survey about Capistrano that we launched via @capistranorb yesterday, it looks like cnolden wanted to pick up some HN karma! Sorry that you saw (what I consider to be) a bit of a (technically) disappointing product landing page.

Nice to know that. I already signed for your mailchimp list. Hope things go well and have something ready for testing soon. It should be interesting project.

6 points posted 8 hours ago and still on the front page? Impressive!

Anyway, I signed up, just waiting for the email. Not really clear on where this fits in for us but seems to be relevant.

edit: Wait a second, I gave up my email address to "Try now for free" and I guess I just signed up for a mailing list:

"Please Confirm Subscription

<button>Yes, subscribe me to this list. </button>

If you received this email by mistake, simply delete it. You won't be subscribed if you don't click the confirmation link above."

I clicked on it, but it just took me to a "Thanks for signing up for this list" page. I really hate the bait and switch here. I unsubscribed from the list. I guess managing free trials could be managed via mailing list but this just looks like an email address grab since you don't explain anything.

Hi @mattdeboard sorry that you were disappointed by the landing page, I'll pass your comments on to the marketing guy who is responsible for that page. As I wrote on another comment here there's nothing that people can try yet, we're still pre-alpha, and our team agreed not to submit to HN until the product was ready. We expect Q1, naturally the marketing man wants the "hookiest" landing page he can come up with, but I'm not comfortable with pushing that page in it's current form to any technical circles. It exists mostly for drive-bys and as something to show to potential investors and partners.

mattdeboard, the wording on the landing page is fixed, thanks for the feedback.

Good lord, that logo's font is horrible. It's impossible to read. Don't use cursive, like ever. And certainly not for your logo.

Cursive seems to be treating Coca-Cola just fine.

I'd really love to see a video of the product before signing up.

If you contact me (twitter @leehambley, or email address in my HN profile) I'll be happy to share a video demo with you when we have one, we're just finished with our production-like staging environment, and we're going to spend the next few weeks ironing out bugs before launching a limited alpha in the new year. As I mentioned somewhere else in the comments, that landing page is super, super "too marketing", and I personally don't like it too much, but it's not for "us" (technical folk) and it's certainly not for HN. I plan on making a technical release page which is heavier on concrete design, use-cases, and etc. But, unfortunately cnolden jumped the gun and submitted (he's not affiliated with us) the page to HN!

so "Try now" signs me up to your mailing list. Why doesn't it let me "try now"? Or at least let me look at a screenshot.

Smell a lot like an MVP collecting email address, before they really have a working product.

yodal_sl is half right, we've only just wrangled the product into a dog-foodable state, this HN submission didn't come from anyone in our team, I'm sorry you were disappointed in the wording on the landing page, I'll make sure somebody addresses that today. We're preparing a product demo video to send to a handful of people (for potential investors, more than something to drop on that site), but as I offered jjmanton above, find my email address in my HN profile, or tweet me @leehambley, and I'll be glad to talk with you off-list.

member345, the wording of the landing page is fixed, thanks for your patience. If you're on the mailing list, you'll receive something from us in the next few days.

The wording still implies that I'm "trying" and "joining". I'm still just signed up for a Mailchimp list.

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