How is my rocket launch calendar landing page?
A few years back I made a script which would save rocket launches in my calendar so I could watch the livestreams. After thinking more about releasing my work into the wild lately I decided to make it available to the public and get some practice developing a landing page. The net result is Launch Cal (a working title).
I've added the link to the Google Calendar up first seeing as that's the primary action, but because I currently only support Google Calendar and not other formats for the full experience (it's a revival of a hobby project and landing page practice, not a full product). I've also added the ability further down the page to vote on one's favourite calendar application until I can conduct some proper market research - this because it gives me fewer reasons not to ship.
What do you all think of the UX and the layout? Is there anything I can add to improve it all? How about the email form? Other than notifying users when a new calendar format is supported and/or creating a mailing list, it has not real business being there.
Hi @tpaulin, I love this idea. The SpaceX launches are inspiring, and you're doing a great service by helping that inspiration to reach more people.
-From your website copy, I didn't know if you were talking about visiting the actual launch at Cape Canaveral or watching a video online. You may want to clarify.
-You users may be interested in different formats: a Google calendar, Google calendar event invitations (which is different from a complete calendar), email notifications, or something else. Personally, I wouldn't want a complete Google calendar, but I would be interested in watching a 2-minute highlight of the launch on YouTube a few hours after the fact. In fact, I often do that. So, if you had a YouTube channel that did a 2-minute summary of each launch, I would subscribe.
Good luck.
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Subscribed :)
I think you can make the background image more visible, its a rocket launch, those things look epic.
I ran your site through my tool, found no issues, but you can see it looks a bit hard to see the actual rocket: https://app.pagewatch.dev/e3f89916652b33a9b1ce4fb193060b120b6625f8/dashboard