My pandemic 🦠 startup journey so far -
June - Last month working for an crypto-anime startup in Sg. Had the Idea + Aha moment. Cancelled move to Singapore.
July - MVP newsletter launch. Got 150+ subs within 2 days. Decision to commit!
Aug - Silent labor. Improving concept + Productisation of Idea.
Sep - Build, feedback & repeat!
Today i.e. Sep 26, 2020 - Launching Airlane Beta on Hacker news (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24598702) + 1st public IndieHacker post
Here's my landing page - https://airlane.tech
Q1) Did you sign up? (Yes/No)
Q2) Pick one word to share your feelings about Airlane (+ one emoji for bonus).
Q3) What's the value prop for you?
Q4) What hesitations do you have about signing up? If none, what hesitations would you have about inviting friends?
Extremely grateful for your time & feedback!
Please do leave a link to your landing page(or anything else you'd like feedback on) + your questions. I promise to comment back with direct & honest responses.
"A Better LinkedIn for your Twitter" I didn't understand at all what your product is about from this headline. What do LinkedIn and Twitter have in common?
LinkedIn was built as a platform to manage professional your identity. But nowadays Twitter represents your professional identity a lot better than Linkedin.
Your Twitter Bio is your first impression to the internet.
Your Twitter Feed can be your resume to the internet.
Twitter DMs are your new interviews and application process.
This being said Twitter isn't inherently designed for this. I've tried to fill in the holes with Airlane. It's a LinkedIn(a way to manage your professional identity) for your Twitter. It syncs up with your Twitter and helps you do all the things you'd do on LinkedIn - search jobs, search your contacts by job profile/location/keywords, find new companies, make connections, find investors, etc.
Thanks for your feedback @zerotousers. My one-liner is clearly not as good as I thought! Will definitely work on this before launching for real! :)
@vcrizpy This tagline works better, to paraphrase you: "Manage your professional identity with Twitter"
You can't just mention two big social networks without mentioning about how they're connected, not everyone uses them in the way you have built your tool and you don't want to leave any room for interpretation
This explanation makes the point of Airlane a lot more clear than your whole website. Btw., I don't like Airlane, I keep writing airline & autocorrection just makes it worse.
This is so true. Even on google it shows up with a "Did you mean to search for Airline?" suggestion. 😂
I also didn't understand what the idea was. But I'm intrigued. Consider describing it like this: "Search jobs, find new companies, and make professional connections on Twitter."
Also, can you tell me why I, as a user, would want to do these things on twitter? What's wrong with doing these things on LinkedIn?
@ryanh1 Thanks for your response.
I really like your quote for our pitch. You might very well see me use a version of this on airlane.tech 😉
Nothing wrong with doing this on LinkedIn per se but consider this ->
In short, I'm not building because you could do these things on Twitter but because people already are and Twitter is better for than LinkedIn.
These are great answers. I think it would be helpful to explain some of this on your website. For example: Discover jobs posted by creators, musicians, and artists, which are posted on Twitter but not LinkedIn.
Hey Vyom,
Great idea here. It feels like something that I would want to use.
The first screen is not making much of a impact for me and in the demo section below, the headings are hard to grasp with the GIFs and everything.
Here is mine: Preferral
Thank you for your feedback!
For your site ->
Overall visually it looks good. I like the simple animation for emoji people!
Will surely revisit these points.
The Codesandbox is an example for the users who want to implement preferral, they have to add their own API key there. I add text there for clarity.
I am not sure about the number of CTAs though. I will go through it once again.
Hey there, here's my feedback:
Anyway really curious about the product, can't wait to get access.
Now please do mine: Logology.
This is super awesome!
I loved your landing page, it's artfully designed. I also liked that your own logo is kind of a coloured Pokeball.
Your brand discovery QnA is fun to get through.
Really hard to give constructive feedback to team that's so good at design thinking. I could definitely learn a bit from you guys. Your UX was pretty great too.
I'm sorry but I honestly don't have anything even slightly negative to say about your landing page.
I gave you a follow on Twitter from @VCrizpy. Hope to see you out there, spreading your knowledge about design & landing pages! :)
Hi Vyom,
First of all your product looks great. I like the minimalistic look of it. However I did not get your value proposition "A better LinkedIn for your Twitter". The examples you show on your website make it more clear what it is about. I defenitely want to try out the product so I am now on the waiting list!
Here is my MVP would love to get some feedback: https://makerstack.club/
Hey @nickverhaege,
Thanks for your response + kudos on signing up! Invites will be sent out soon.
After getting the feedback, I've realised that in my haste to launch, I've managed to really screwed up the copywriting!
If I could ask, which value prop made you sign up? It help me redesign everything better the next time round!
Here are my $0.02 for makerstack ->
Hi Vyom!
Thank you very much for this constructive feedback. I think you are right about the onboarding, I think I should try to make it more appealing! Any tips or tools that might help me achieve a better onboarding? I will definitely try to get a better onboarding and add in a logo.
I would recommend going through the onboarding processes of fintech product. something like a stock app. They have a ton of steps and still manage to onboard people.
Also LinkedIn is always a good case study!
Tried signing up.
Getting this error in twitter "There is no request token for this page. That's the special key we need from applications asking to use your Twitter account. Please go back to the site or application that sent you here and try again; it was probably just a mistake."
Thank you for reporting this @zephyr0 ! I'm incredibly sorry for your trouble.
Unfortunately, after checking I've found that this is a bug caused by firebase's implementation of twitter auth.
If you try again by enabling 3rd party cookies in your chrome/browser settings, it should work!
I'm would kindly request you to DM me at https://twitter.com/vcrizpy OR email me at [email protected], if you still have trouble.
Thanks mate. It works now. Will play around the app and give feedback.
Really nice! Some comments:
Feel free to review my web:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/roast-our-landing-page-and-ill-do-the-same-with-yours-21ddde3ef9
Thank you so much for your response! Awesome feedback.
Will leave comment back with feedback on your post soon! 👍
Q1) Did you sign up? - No
Q2) Pick one word to share your feelings about Airlane (+ one emoji for bonus). - I kind of didn't understand the concept for sometime. But its good for people who are super active on Twitter.
Q3) What's the value prop for you? In this case, the solution is good but I am just trying to see how it will be useful to me. For example, I am building a #nocode engine for Google sheets and how can this help me... These are somethings in my mind.
Q4) What hesitations do you have about signing up? If none, what hesitations would you have about inviting friends? I am thinking about possible usecase for me.
https://siteoly.com - Incase you want to review, I am building this website builder that can build websites from Google sheets. Completely #nocode. We have got paying customers and got good traction with a few people waiting for early access.
How airlane can help you as a founder of a no code startup ?
Landing page feedback -
Thankyou for you detailed comments on how this can help me as a maker. Will check out. Also thankyou for your review on siteoly.com
Agreed I should do a better job on mentioning competitors. Noted.
Here's mine: Tag My Knowledge
I'm not quite happy with my benefits section. Is it clear why you should get the app?
Anything stopping you from signing up?
@ciriusjoker Thank you so much. This is so helpful. Going through your medium article now!
I looked at your site. Even signed up for the web version out of curiosity but could not get the app as I'm an iOS users.
For the landing page -
Great points. I definitely need to figure out a way toward illustrations or maybe even animations to the page to clarify how it works. I hesitated to add more text for exactly that reason. If I do animations, I'll probably embed them via Rive (or whatever flare animations are called right now)
As for iOS, upon login you should have gotten a dialog telling you that you can install the bookmark to make it look like a real native app. Did that not happen? Maybe a small text to indicate that the mobile web version is identical would help. Technically it has slightly worse performance but that's about it.
The point is that taking notes is faster because the UI is optimized to work with as few taps as possible, so you don't waste time and can focus on what the speaker is saying instead of fiddling with the app.
If you need help with the video thing, let me know :)
I used it on browser from my laptop. Didn't get any popup to show how to install on iOS.
Maybe that shows up only when visiting from a mobile device ?
Ah yes. I definitely need to make it more clear that the web app is by no means inferior (it's the same code base anyway). Also it needs to be clear that it can be installed just like a normal app.
I signed up and your site keep showing me red dot. So I need to refresh. After all there no signage I was logged in.
clear value
I'm not a twitter user, so I can't tell.
I think you don't need full screen sign up before you presented all features.
Here is mine: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/landing-page-roast-will-fire-yours-back-b32bf4ba7a