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Does this landing page work or time to change?

I've been really struggling to convert signups to my picture carousel editor app.

An overwhelming majority of people who land on the page leave without clicking any links.

So I've been busy with a redesign, in order to get more of what my app does into the landing page, and hopefully improve conversion.

Here's the app: https://pici.app

Would really appreciate your feedback -

Do you love/hate the page?
Is it clear what this app does?
Can you imagine yourself or someone you know using this?

Much appreciated

on February 7, 2021
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    Besides the other comments here, I would really see what you can do to improve the load time. It took me over 3 seconds on WiFi. Most people aren’t going to wait that long. You may have to use a better cdn to host your images

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      Cheers for the feedback, I am already using a CDN for static assets including images and css, and the performance has drastically improved from where it started, but it's still not there yet.

      I'm using the Standard Microsoft CDN profile on Azure, where my tech stack is hosted.

      One trade off I'm making is that whilst I have a CDN, the main website is hosed as a single server in the UK south region, which might be causing some problem depending on where you are.

      I take your point though, people expect a sub second load these days, so will try and improve this

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    I imagine that a lot of effort has been invested in creating that scroll-background-effect. But yes, I would think that it's time to redesign it in something more modern.

    At least, this is my very first impression. I'm a web dev, I'm biased since I see websites all day long. Maybe your customers don't have the same impression!

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    I think there's too much going on on the page. I will make it simple and follow this principle here:
    https://www.indiehackers.com/post/my-step-by-step-guide-to-landing-pages-that-convert-9daefb2064

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      Thanks for the feedback PaulOmo, also great resource. I actually know a lot of this stuff, but I get carried away, sometimes you don't know how something will look until you build it. I'll look to scale things back though based on feedback I've received!

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        Happens to all of us.

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    Well demo 1 link doesn't work for me or for google FAILED_DOCUMENT_REQUEST
    https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpici.app%2Fq4d66s
    ( it did load after a couple of minutes I guess, that's not reasonable, if I wasn't doing this for IH review, I wouldn't wait, just assume it's broken)

    The main back image looks bad/low quality and moving it makes me sick

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      Also it seems like all images should be clickable which they aren't

      The page is overall a bad experience

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      All the images for this context seem really low quality
      The dragging animation/speed/... is not good, doesn't feel good looking at it, really make me want to just close it
      Maybe look at what other apps are doing, there is some google panorama app, google carton? :shrug: can't recall the name at the moment, it was smooth and nice to look at is what I remember, not like this one

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        The comment about the quality and the smoothness, its a tough balance to get it to work without overloading the browser, but I'm sure there are ways around it.

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          Should probably progressively load higher quality sections like how google maps/earth does ...

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        Hey Hatkyinc, that's tough but much appreciated feedback, I can take action some of your points straight away. This page was a gamble, trying to do something unique without making people throw up 😇

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      Thanks for the feedback, not sure how the demo links ended up like that. I'm using an anchor tag <a href="https://pici.app/Fq4d66s">.. might switch to a relative link instead..