Mi first landing page! What do you think?
Hello indie hackers,
This is my first landing page and my first product. I've been looking at some landing pages for inspiration, what do you think?
Any feedback/tips would be much appreciated!
Here's the landing page: https://searchforme.app
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All these comments are good! Follow them if you can. My suggestion is just make it a bit more colourful.
I kinda get it, not sure when I'd use it, unless I have a PDF of like full books or something large... 20+ - 200
I think I'm too prouding myself with finding stuff fast in text that the writing a question and looking at the spiny wheel... also why would I search the specific PDF and not google? is it for students / research?..
As I said at the start, I kinda get what it is, but not why I'd want it / use it.. (could be either personally me not being the target, or needing some inspiration with actual use cases on the page)
It's a "scratch your own itch" thing. I am a researcher, and for researchers, the place where you take the information is as important as the information.
The thing is... when I read lots of papers, more often than not, I lose track of where I read something. So I made this app for myself. Although I think people other than researchers can benefit from it (anyone that needs to utilize specific information sources), that is why I didn't point it out on the landing page (previously the app was called "Research assistant").
Maybe the landing page is too vague and I could use a use case or two, thank you for the feedback! I will be looking for this kind of reactions on my target users!
You're right. I didn't mention multiple files because the machine learning pipeline is not ready yet and I couldn't record a video of it.
Although "multiple pdfs" search is the real objective of the app, I released the "one pdf" version to get early feedback while working on that. Now I'm thinking that is best to pause the "launch" until I can promote the "multiple pdfs" version.
Thank you hatkyinc, you have been very helpful!
In a way I don't want to go against the launch early, but does a single PDF search solve a problem for someone?
The multi PDF is way more clear for me as you mentioned in research, but than you might get dragged into the file collection management part as well... Hopefully you can reuse something like a Google docs directory/tag in place of a dedicated file management feature.. well maybe... :Thinking:
To be honest, It was on the back of my mind that the value of a multiple pdf search is substantially bigger than single pdf, and therefore no less than that should be the MVP.
But I convinced myself to release the one pdf version as a data-collecting device for other features/bugs and to learn how to do landing pages, beta testing, etc.
Now that you (an outsider to the project) have told me that you too recognize the multiple pdf search potential value, I can't ignore it anymore. I'll do my best to achieve multiple pdf search in the least amount of time. In the meantime, I'll keep asking for feedback.
Thank you hatkyinc.
Woah this is an awesome product! Some general thoughts:
Good luck!
Thank you parhelion for the feedback! And I'm glad that you liked the video.
About your second bullet point, if you have the time, could you tell me what other places had awkward phrasing? I'm not a native English speaker (obviously) and sometimes I can't catch those details.
If not, you already have been very helpful! Thank you again!
Hey, I made the following list:
Before: DON'T WASTE TIME SEARCHING ON A PDF, LET YOUR NEW AI DOIT!*
After: Search your PDF's using AI.
Before: Search for me it's a PDF reader combined with a powerful AI. Open a PDF and ask any questions! The AI will read everything in seconds and find the answer.
After: Search For Me is a smart PDF reader that can understand the content of your PDFs. Simply open up a PDF, ask it what you need, and start analyzing your information within seconds!
Before: Ask any question of any subject. You don't even have to write the exact words. The AI recognizes that words like 'king' and 'emperor' are related
After: Ask questions like you would ask a friend. Our powerful AI can process keywords or full sentences. For example, it knows that 'king' and 'emperor' are related.
Before: With Light and Dark modes, you can be a night owl or an eary bird, Search for me has your back
After: Light and dark mode support. No matter your preference, we have you covered.
Before: Your data is safe because it never leaves your computer, the documents are processed locally.
After: Search For Me processes everything locally, so your data privacy is ensured.
Before: Questions? Ask directly to the developer:
After: Questions? Ask a developer directly!
Woah! AMAZING! I will update the landing page right now.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! You just helped me more than you think!