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Landing page feedback - Learnshots

The Internet is huge and is full of knowledge. But, one of the major problem is finding the right resources to learn stuff. Most of the stuff is either outdated or irrelevant.

With growing newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and product launch every day. It's hard to filter the right content. Thus, spent the past few weeks on research and existing product and finally started building Learnshots.

Learnshots aims to grow your knowledge base to the next level, provide you ample resources to learn about certain topics around tech, programming, startups, and productivity.

Check it out - learnshots.app
Do checkout @learnshots for updates on Twitter.

Would love to get some feedback around the landing page and the product overall. Feel free to DM me in case you have products/resources to share :)
Special offer for indie hacker community.

on October 10, 2020
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    I think given the quality content it could become an interesting newsletter. The reason I say that is because I'd much rather get a weekly email with great content rather than remember to visit another website to get it. Not to say you can't have both, just thinking out loud which format I'd prefer.

    I would also recommend spreading out the frequency of new content, as I guess posting something new every single day is not going to be sustainable long term. I think posting weekly would be a good compromise. I would also enjoy reading your own, personal take on every link you post and what you think about it. Highly recommend checking out Dense Discovery - https://www.densediscovery.com/. It's like Stripe of personal newsletters, an absolute best one.

    As for the landing page, I find it quite chaotic. The content here is a list of links organized by day, but displaying them in a grid makes it much harder to scan with your eyes.

    What I would do is simplify the page layout to a vertical one, remove unnecessary styling like shadows and animations, make badges colorful to avoid the whole page being red. Basically just keep everything simple and easy to digest.

    Something like this:

    You can view it live at https://qnylw.csb.app/ and copy the source code.

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      Thanks for this!
      Common feedback is around design, will focus on making it minimal.

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    When I get to the site, I'm not sure about the quality of the resources listed. "Is this just a list of a bunch of mediocre course and stuff?" Maybe I'd show what made each item part of your curated list. I mean, have you tried them yourself? See what I mean?

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    Hey! This is a very neat concept and I would be willingly to give it try as a first time visitor. Just looking at the date format though, the first number (date) seems a size or two larger than the month and year. Is this a conscious decision on your part?

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    Based on "Learnshots aims to grow your knowledge base to the next level, provide you ample resources to learn about certain topics around tech, programming, startups, and productivity.", I expect the website home page to be organized by tracks / subjects, and not by date with tags.

    I would replace the timeline with a tile menu of categories (the tags), such as "learn startup marketing", "learning startup funding", "learning programming", etc. and then each category's page should have the links that you're curating ordered by "start here" to "expert" (not by date -- dates might not even be important to display at all -- but if you do display them, make sure the content doesn't eventually look stale).

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    Hey,

    Did you validate with any of your potential customers that the problem indeed exists? It would be very interesting to know what your target segment thinks about it.

    Thanks!

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      Yes, actually this started with an idea from Twitter. I am part of some communities and it really felt useful in curating useful resources at one place.

      Not really sure of this as a business yet, doing it for community and learning purposes. Also, if people like it, eventually they'll support :)

      Do share you thoughts around this :)

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    • The colours are hard on the eyes, why red like your selling coca-cola?... so much of it.. having text both black and white... you need a designer.. the pixelated rounded corners with borders look like it's a site from 1993
    • many of the titles and text look so spamy for the claim your trying to curate quality, they don't look good
    • Would probably look nicer if you keep the left to right and not center the last row of blocks.
    • "Curated" is a bit meaningless if I don't know what are the filters of curation... Tech/Eng./Programming do you have a clear definition on when each tag is given? maybe a tool-tip for your meaning of the labels?
      "Awesome Sites" is there a reason not all of your blocks have that? like why do you have anything that's not awesome on a curated list?...
      Like this is the core of your premise, the thing you should spend the most time on getting right, make me fill the premise is important to you, that you mean it, that I can get that in a second
      "life" ...
    • Maybe you want to move the sponsor stuff from FAQ to Sponsor?
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      Thanks for the feedback!
      Nice point on curation. Will definitely work on making tags more sensible.
      Regarding designs did not get this kind of feedback yet, but thanks for advice, will try to make it minimal.

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      Hey, actually i did made some improvements based on some other feedbacks.
      Does the new look feel better?

      I am not a designer but learning by building :)
      Thanks for the concept design. I like the categories idea as a sidebar.