September 28, 2018

Feedback on idea and landing page?

Hi all

First time posting here. :) I’m actually going to start by saying thanks to the folks who’re here and post. It’s thanks to you lot that I realised it’s okay to produce something which won’t be the next Google, Facebook etc - things can be small but profitable and that’s okay. :-)

I’m partway through an idea now. I started off writing it with an “I want to learn something new and it doesn’t matter” approach. Since I’d never done any of this kind of dev before there’s been a lot to learn, which has been interesting. :-) However, I’ve got to the point now where I’m thinking it’d be useful to get some feedback as to whether it’d be a service people would use.

I’ve put together a basic landing page - I’d be grateful if people who have a spare few minutes could provide some feedback. Starting questions I have:

  1. Price recommendations?

  2. Do the plans seem okay, in terms of scale etc?

  3. Do the pages communicate what it is and why it’s useful well enough?

Plus any other things people gave to say about it. :-)

For the moment it’s on a LaunchACo subdomain, if I move on I’ll pay for the download/deploy package.

https://dataflowqa.launchaco.com/

Thanks folks

Paul


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    Hi Paul!

    First of all nice to see first post!

    About idea - i understand how it works but i can't imagine when i can use it. Maybe could you add some real example to your landing page? "strings that have always been empty or short suddenly becoming long" - it is ok but for me it is too abstract, i didn't see use case.

    Anyway try to visualize how it works (i know it could be hard but maybe you find out the way). Maybe some steps or diagram... You have text mostly.

    Consider adding plan 'unlimited' for big businesses. Can't tell you more about prices because i don't see where i could use it.

    I hope it is valuable feedback,

    good luck! 👍

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      Hi Michael

      Sorry for the delayed reply - life got in the way and I didn't have any spare brain left. :-/

      My plan was to pay the $50 to Launchaco for the HTML/etc and then customise the plans.

      However - and this is thanks partly to the helpful replies I had here - I've realised I think I've got a solution looking for a problem. I had an idea and built it (kind of), but I'm not sure it's actually something people need. I'm going to park it and do something else for a bit - I'm finding more ideas now anyway, which is encouraging. :-)

      Thanks again for the time you took to look at it and reply, that's much appreciated. Good luck with Anima!

      Paul

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    Hi Paul,

    Good that you want to move your butt to do something 💪 Now get ready for the harsh feedback hah.

    I can give you feedback only on the landing page because currently I don't understand your business. I am UX Engineers (a guy who can make a good UX and then code it) also I consider myself a tech informed guy but I didn't know what CI is (still don't even when I searched for it). So when you're promoting something take into account people who don't know all the abbreviations because they'll be lazy to search for it (as I was now).

    Explanations are bad it wasn't clear for me even when I read everything. Those two "What is it" and "Why you need it" are too long, first should be one below each other, add a picture in between like a sketch how a service should look like or how it's going to do it.

    Frequently asked questions, should be abbreviation because everybody knows it FAQ. Also you have one question so practically it's not "Questions" so you can just instead of that you can put it in one sentence but from what I read it seems a bit redundant.

    I wouldn't put a price because that put's people away, you should only add another input field "Interested yet" and see how many people are interested.

    There are a bunch of stuff that you could have done better to convey a message through the landing page.

    It is the hardest part to get right and also the most important one so I would suggest to you to go online and see how other websites did it and read some articles how to do it.

    Nonetheless awesome because you even made one and have your own email address, congrats for that, now get on one improvement train and further down the journey! 😎🍻

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      Hi Uros

      Sorry for the delayed reply - life got in the way and I didn't have any spare brain left. :-/

      That's some really useful feedback, thank you for that! My plan was to pay the $50 to Launchaco for the HTML/etc and then customise the site somewhat.

      I've been thinking about it over the last week though, and I think that I had an idea and built it (kind of), but it's maybe not actually something people need. So I'm going to park it and do something else for a bit, see if that works better. At least this time I have an idea for solving a problem I had, so there's at least one user. :-)

      Thanks again for the time you took to look at it and reply, that's much appreciated.

      Paul

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    Who is your competition? If there is none you might not have a market. If you're doing data quality analysis you're competing with companies like IBM and Talend. That's not a bad thing as they are ripe for disruption. Your product needs to better or cheaper to steal their business, possibly both.

    What pain do people have that would lead them to your product? I see a landing page full of features, but no real benefits. Find your customers first and tailor your message to reflect their needs.

    Why you need it - this doesn't explain why I need it, it just tells me what it 'can' do, not even what it will do for me. Find out what my pains are, then make your tool take those away. It also doesn't tell me what products that I might be using that it will work with.

    Lots of fleshing out to do. Keep at it!

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      Hi Craig - yeah, that's kind of the conclusion I came to. I read an interesting comment on IH and thought "ooh, I could build that", but reality's setting in now.

      I'm going to leave it and do something else for a bit. At least this time I have an idea for solving a problem I had, so there's at least one user. :-)

      Thanks again for the time you took to look at it and reply, that's much appreciated.

      Paul

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    1. Price recommendations: I'm not able to get what do you mean with stored structure, because there is a lack of example. Seems to be something related to data format, but I'm not sure. Without this clarification, it's hard to suggest a prices

    2. Do the plans seem okay, in terms of scale etc? If is build with CI in mind, calls are a no-sense for me. I understand why you limit number of calls for month, but CI could potentially runs every minute, so a lot of calls here. What if I need more than 20000 calls? There is no "cover" for this scenario. And about structures, see above.

    3. Do the pages communicate what it is and why it’s use. For me yes. You need for sure to understand who is the customer here, it's the CTO, it's a senior developer? How integrate to common CI (what about Jenkins integration, for example)? It's a plugin an play solution or I need to do something (setup certificates, logins,etc..)? What about other people in my team? It's one access for anyone ? And .. how are you? How many customers do you have? Do you have testimonials? Real world use case scenario ?

    In general I like the idea, I'm not sure why a developer or CTO should use this kind of service, if a json schema check could potentially solve this problem. If customer is different, another story, could solve many headcaches.

    Good luck!

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      Hi Vokail

      Sorry for the delayed reply - life got in the way and I didn't have any spare brain left. :-/

      That's some really useful feedback, thank you for that. Based on the feedback from folks here - and looking at it honestly - there really is a lot of detail missing from there. It would take quite a lot of work to fill it in. I hadn't thought of some of the things you brought up, so thank you for those.

      I've been thinking about it over the last week though, and I think that I had an idea and built it (kind of), but it's maybe not actually something people need. As you say, JSON Scheme would fix some of the problem space, and that's free. :-)

      So I'm going to park it and do something else for a bit, see if that works better. At least this time I have an idea for solving a problem I had, so there's at least one user. :-)

      Thanks again for the time you took to look at it and reply, that's much appreciated.

      Paul

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        you are welcome!

        I didn't mean to say "hey, it's a crap" :D I think you found a solution for a problem, instead first find a problem, then a solution.

        I needed some time to overcome this, but thinking in the right order, you can evaluate ideas much faster

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    Hey @arafel

    Great that you have decided to post here for the first time. My feedback below

    1.The header background colour is bit too bright making it a little difficult to read the text.

    2.Maybe write the full form for CI in the header and then CI in brackets?

    3.Provide use cases , it's a great way for users to associate the product to their needs.

    4.Have the FAQ in a separate page.

    5.For launch $5, $15 might be fine but soon you will find spending time and effort for marketing and the revenue to be small making yourself consider if the project worth continuing. Pricing low initially is fine as long as you have the courage to increase your pricing once the product picks up.

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      Hi Nakkeeran

      Sorry for the delayed reply - life got in the way and I didn't have any spare brain left. :-/

      Thanks for the feedback, that's good. I hadn't thought abougt the colours enough.

      Based on the feedback from folks here - and looking at it honestly - there really is a lot of detail missing from the site, and it would take quite a lot of work to fill it in.

      I've been thinking about it over the last week though, and I think that I had an idea and built it (kind of), but it's not actually something people need, really.

      So I'm going to park it and do something else for a bit, see if that works better. At least this time I have an idea for solving a problem I had, so there's at least one user. :-)

      Thanks again for the time you took to look at it and reply, that's much appreciated.

      (My son supports Liverpool - he's hoping for them to win the league too, so you're not alone :D)

      Paul