tedavis

Decided to run Ferguson on YC's homepage. Here's the first fix it suggested:

"The single most important fix is adding a batch application deadline and a one-line post-CTA microcopy note beside the Apply button. 'Applications for [Season] close [Date] · Takes ~1 hour' would transform a timeless invitation into a time-sensitive opportunity and remove the opacity that currently surrounds the most important click on the page."

I got tired of feeding my URL into ChatGPT and Claude asking them to see what's wrong. I'd put a URL into a chat window and it would come back with completely different thoughts each time. There's no guidance, no structure, and no way to check if your fixes are actually decent without a lengthy prompt or back and forth conversation.

So I built Ferguson a classy little landing page auditor. It'll read your page like a cold visitor, tell you who the audience is, who you might be turning away, what's working, what's not, and crucially: what to fix first.

Each audit is grounded in a clear set of principles so you can make the suggested fixes and see how your site changes over time.

The cool part is that each audit feeds a growing benchmark so you can see how your site stacks up to others in the same category. Another thing you can't get from a regular LLM.

This is excellent! What was the biggest challenge you found while developing the sequel?

Stackronym is a new daily word game. Every day there are 6 words to guess in 6 tries. The 6 words are made up of: 1 horizontal word, and 5 words that start with each letter of the horizontal word.

Think of it like Quordle or Octordle with a twist.

Haha yea it can be a real challenge!

I had to have the penalty otherwise there’d just be endless points or no points at all (some don’t like the points so there’s an option to turn them off in settings and just go for the solve)

I’m a big fan of daily word games and so I decided to have a go at building my own!

In Toppled you have to find four valid five letter words using the letters provided.

As an added challenge, there’s also four golden words to find. These golden words are the four words used to create the day’s wall. You don’t have to find them, but they’re a nice bonus. To help you find the golden words, their starting letters are highlighted in the wall.

There’s a new wall to try and topple every day.