Launched Smithy redesign a few days ago. Would love to hear your feedback.
We're going to be launching paid plans shortly, as well as experimenting with paid advertising and preparing for a Product Hunt launch.
It was a good time to give our MVP site a makeover, and we wanted to be a bit bolder and more opinionated with the design and content.
Have a look here, let me know what you think: https://smithy.app
In particular, I like to know:
- Is it clear what it does and how it does it?
- Is it clear what value it provides to teams?
- If this is something that you would in fact add to your workspace, is there anything on the landing page that's making you hesitate?
Tech and tools used, for those interested:
- Tailwind CSS (with just a few small customisations)
- Laravel 7 (both the public site and the app backend)
- Forge + Linode for infrastructure
- Fathom for privacy-focused analytics (get $10 off your first invoice if you use my link: https://usefathom.com/ref/JIZHUN )
- The video was recorded on Loom
- The image above the fold was done in Sketch, quickly recreating the Slack interface with soft shapes, along with avatars from https://www.sketchappsources.com/search_avatar.html
- Calls are scheduled via Calendly
Hey @entreprenik - here's a short video i made to explain my feedback.
https://youtu.be/6GF29kdiIjM
You basically are trying to enforce threads with a bot.
Alright let's play devil's advocate 😈
Why?
What's the advantage?
You say "disorganized chat" but you only have 1 feature: Threading enforcement.
Pretty sure this isn't make it or break it for your team :)
From my perspective there's no reason to use this unless, you believe that this will improve your productivity. Except there's no proof it does.
Prove me otherwise!
Took me a bit of scrolling to realize how it works. Basically, a) You active /thread mode inside a Slack channel b) People are only allowed to post INSIDE these threads c) Anything posted outside gets removed/filtered.
With that being said, I wonder if it's possible to make a more specific headline. After reading how the app works, my mind immediately went to..this is like a forum. I am allowed to open threads inside a forum, but I can't do posts directly inside a forum.