Career tools for developers - is the message clear and succinct?
Landing page: https://gitconnected.com
My website is a collection of tools for developers to grow their careers. I'm finding it difficult to strike the balance of displaying the value of the product while also not trying to overload users with too much information.
I'm most happy with this newest iteration, but I would love to know if it's hit the mark or if it still needs works.
Hey Trey! Nice website. I think your "Build Your Coding Career" section is brilliant, great summarisation of your product. I would personally make the about, privacy, social media container to a footer so Its easier to find, now it feels kinda hidden.
Another thing I noticed is that the hero image is low res so it's kinda hard to see the content of the image on desktop.
Anyhow, great work. You are definitely on your way to hitting the mark.
Great feedback, I really appreciate it. I agree on surfacing important links in the footer, I'll look at adding that asap and also addressing the quality of the image.
The 'Build Your Coding Career' tag line immediately made me think it was going to be a learning product, or resources for how to code, or become a coder. So then seeing the first bullet, 'Effortlessly update your details' , it didn't seem connected to building my career. Also, the numbered bullets makes me expect a series of steps, but they don't really read that way, they're more features.
Upon further investigation I can see the other resources like tutorials and news that relate more to learning and building a career, but since the primary content on the main page is so focused on the resume building aspect, it's a bit confusing and unexpected.
Given that you have distinct sections already, it might be enough for the main page to just have big cards directing you to the sections, e.g. 'stay up to date on the latest new', 'learn from the best tutorials', 'generate a professional resume from your github profile', in which case 'Build Your Coding Career' as a tag line makes sense to me.
One other little nitpick, on the news and tutorials pages, the section at the top linking to the resume builder honestly felt like an add banner, and it takes precedence over the main purpose of those pages, so I'd maybe tone that down a bit.
Thanks for the feedback, @okadoke! That all makes a lot of sense. I'll see if I can make the design / content / ux better map to the intents.
Striking that balance is tough, I'm struggling with that right now. Was planning on posting my site later to see if I've improved the clarity of my product.
After a quick glance, what's communicated to me is a tool that generates a resume from your github profile.
Taking a second glance it looks like it also has an API tool that you can use for embedding your resume on your own site. I clicked the learn more link and I guess it's not embedding your resume on your site but instead a dedicated endpoint on the gitconnected domain that links to your resume. Pretty neat.
I like the design because all of the important information is right there at the top. I think developers appreciate that instead of spreading the information throughout the landing page.
I do think if you ever get the resources though that a nice explainer/demo video should replace the top image which is really text heavy. It would also fit nicely on the mobile version to help break up some of the text between the sections.
I like the notification in the top right with the little circle. For psychological reasons I had to click it.
After a 3rd glance I guess it's really all about the portfolio API which more or less is a github generated resume that is hosted on gitconnected.
Thanks so much for taking multiple glances at the landing page. I think my intentions were mostly communicated based on the feedback. I also agree an explainer video would be the best way to describe everything.
So one issue that I'm struggling with appeared in your post. I'm trying to decide if it's good or bad to show such a strong connection with GitHub. I think the good vs bad is -
Good:
Bad:
I would be curious of your thoughts on that if you had a moment.
Putting it that way makes me think of how MS owns linkedin and github and how your resume generator seems like something they might build one day themselves (or acquire 😁).
I noticed the other features of the site but was actually overwhelmed by the depth of it all, and not in a bad way, I just wasn't prepared to invest that much time exploring it further.
"I'm worried people won't see beyond it in that we' ae building unique tools separate from github"
I think if you start to hear echoes of that sentiment then it's time to start building integrations with other git services like bitbucket or gitlab, but until then I wouldn't sweat it. Github is pretty much the gold standard for someone learning/building their dev skills so might as well embrace it.
"I'm worried it will limit what the product can evolve into (mostly in the area of making it easier for developers to get jobs)"
Idk if that's a problem you feel like you're having now, or one you might run into down the road, but if it's the latter, then I would just cross that bridge when I get to it.
This feedback was invaluable, I appreciate it so much. I think I may have just been overthinking it instead of focusing my energy on just building. At the moment I don't think there are any problems, I think it's me just being worried about "future problems". Thanks for the help, if I can ever repay the favor, let me know.
This is amazing @treyhuffine!
How do you plan to monetize?