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In need of opinions and feedback

Hey Indie Hackers Devs, I wanted to get you folks opinion on my SaaS.
You can check it out here http://dev-chain.herokuapp.com

I have more features I want to add and clean up on it, but I don't want to fall too far down the rabbit hole and then it turns out to be a bust, So I figured your opinions and feedback would be helpful. I'm also in the process of re-doing the landing page for it to be more descriptive. (F.Y.I. You need a github account...I highly doubt that's an issue for this group)

on November 16, 2019
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    I don't really understand what the value proposition is?
    first I thought "missing links" is a technical term, but it's not?? Is this more about giving advice to each other?

    You might want to make it more clear, with less but direct words for example.

    Good luck!

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      Thank you, will do! The general consensus is that landing page needs to be revamped. Luckily I already started on that.

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        Great! I'm sure you are going to make it great! Ping when you are done.

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    Hi Stephen.
    My thoughts:

    • The page itself looks almost good. Nice graphics, but the palette and the typographic content positioning and spacing could use some work. Maybe not as a first priority though.
    • I don't understand the value offering. What does it mean to find missing links? I get that the service wants to help me improve something about my projects or how I develop or something, but get no indication of how or in what way, or what it demands from me. Could you give an example? I would need to get a better idea of what this actually is before even considering associating it with my github accounts.
    • The typed text progresses so fast that it's hard to notice with all the other elements to take in when first visiting the page. The final text "any other -ing you can think of" also serves to signal that the product is vague and unshaped/immature, rather than appealing.
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      Hey jensmtg,

      Thank you for your honest remarks! In order:

      • Ahhh Good ol' Landing Page. It was sort of thrown together to have something decent. I'm currently working on a proper one because it's what a user will see first.

      • Yes, I'm still trying to find the best words to encapsulate what I envision it as, but It's more so a Developer's Homebase. I originally intended it for simply creating portfolios for users (with switchable themes) by authenticating with their github and allowing users to come together and find collaborators amongst each other for projects. Languages would/could be associated with both users and projects to help find other based on their skills/needs. That's where the missing links came from. But as I worked on it, I realized I could truly cater to devs, while helping a few other players by implementing a couple of other features.

      • The Landing Page definitely needs changing, but that's part of the reason I joined IH to receive constructive criticism like this. The idea has certainly evolved and matured since I first made that page. I'm also caught in a "What came first the chicken or egg?" situation in regards to what I hope to offer vs. a decent userbase/viewership, another reason I'm here to read and learn from others experiences.

      Hopefully all that I said made sense. Also my name is Stephon, but it's cool. If I had a dollar for every time I was called Stephen I wouldn't need a to come up with SaaS haha

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        Same feedback about landing page – no idea what the product is. I'm currently redoing my landing page as well and I got some really good insights from this article from Amy Hoy which I'll pass along in case you find it helpful; got more from that one post than the 30+ other landing-page articles I looked at.

        https://stackingthebricks.com/6-landing-page-mistakes/

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          Reading now, thank you!