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Launching!
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devin_daymore
June 12, 2026
Launching Verbi in June 2026.
Since this is a tool for multilingual SEO, the fairest test felt like holding the homepage to the same standard the product itself sells. A couple of things stood out, and one of them is that legibility issue I keep running into.
First, the text is really hard to read, harder than most sites I look at. Almost all the supporting copy uses one dim gray (
#545557) on a near-black background, and a lot of it is tiny, 10 to 12px. The contrast comes out around 2.6, where 4.5 is the minimum. I had to lean into the screen to read whole sections. The good news is the fix looks easy. It's literally one color reused everywhere, a single CSS variable called --color-text-dim. Lighten that one value a few steps and most of the page becomes readable at once. Nudging the smallest text up a size or two would help too.Second, and this one's a little awkward for a translation tool. Your <html> tag has no lang attribute. For a product whose whole job is handling the language of a page, your own homepage doesn't declare what language it's in. That's the first thing screen readers and search engines check to know the language. It's a one line fix, but for this product it's exactly the kind of detail people will notice.
Third, still on SEO. Lighthouse flags some of your links as not crawlable. That usually means they're built with JavaScript click handlers instead of real links with an href, so Google can't follow them. You're selling "SEO included," so the homepage is the one page that should be spotless here.
To be fair, a lot is solid. Speed is good, 95, and the server responds fast. Your title and meta description are clear and actually well written. So the bones are there.
So the product looks sharp, but a tool that promises readable, well translated, SEO-clean pages gets judged on whether its own page is exactly that. I'd fix the gray text and the missing lang attribute first. Both are small changes with a big payoff for how trustworthy the page feels. Glad to look again after.
Congrats on the upcoming launch! 🎉
I'm curious—what problem is Verbi solving, and who is it built for? Launching is always exciting, but turning early users into long-term customers is where the real journey begins. Looking forward to learning more about it and seeing how it develops after June 2026.