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Developer tool Knapsack Pro landing page feedback

Knapsack Pro is a developer tool to help Ruby & JavaScript engineers to run tests faster on CI thanks to an optimal split of tests among parallel CI servers to ensure you run tests as fast as possible on your CI.

I'm looking to get some feedback about the homepage.
https://knapsackpro.com/

If you are a developer yourself I'm curious about your impression. Is anything on the page unclear or confusing?

What would you improve?

Thanks

on December 27, 2019
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    Hi. I spent a few minutes looking at it. Overall I think it's good, and the product looks interesting. The page clearly communicated 1) what potential problem of mine you were trying to solve, 2) how you were solving it (not always important, but I think this is an important detail when selling to a developer audience), and 3) the CTA. So that's all good!

    A few things that stuck out to me that I think could maybe be improved:

    • The chatbot felt pretty aggressive. It was relatively verbose, and as I interacted with it the thing that stood out was that the chatbot felt like it was there to help you (seems like a market survey) rather than to help me, the prospective customer.
    • The diagram on list item #2 under "how it works" could be cleaned up a bit. It just looks somewhat rough, and I found it detracted from the otherwise professional impression the page gives.
    • I'd reword the first bullet under "Do you know" -- as it is now, it introduces the idea of a 3rd party CI tool being a potential risk. I get that you're trying to answer the objection that a potential customer might have, but I think you can do the same thing without introducing the objection to a potential customer who wasn't thinking about it already. Two options to improve this, I think: 1) move it from here to a FAQ, 2) phrase it positively, like "Knapsack Pro runs in Fallback mode if your CI servers can't reach our API for any reason -- integration with Knapsack Pro is risk free!".
    • As a landing page it seems somewhat long. By the time I got to the second half of it, it seemed somewhat repetitive.
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      Thank you Josh. A lot of good points. :)

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    Hi, I've created a screen recording of myself going over your landing page, and I was impressed by the quality. I don't have much to add, here is the recording anyway: https://www.loom.com/share/496bcbf7b854474080117fdd4039a5bd

    Edit: I've just noticed I've only recorded my camera instead of doing a screen recording, sorry for that!

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      Thanks a lot for the feedback! I will implement improvements after gathering more feedback from other users so everyone has a chance to review the same landing page :)

      I also posted another thread about pricing page feedback https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ask-ih-ruby-js-developer-tool-pricing-page-feedback-ideas-brainstorm-31691f1d13
      If you would like to help there as well I'd appreciate it :)

      Thanks again Thibaut!

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        You're welcome! Cool, I'll give it a look!
        I've just noticed that the video I've shared is a camera only record, I'm sorry, I thought I was recording my screen as well but failed!

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          I've implemented some of your tips. Thanks again for the suggestions. :)

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            you're welcome :)

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          It's not a problem. I was able to understand which section of the landing page you were reviewing. It was still helpful :)