My first side project idea. Need your genuine feedback! 🙇‍♀️

Hey Jocelyn,

Thanks for sharing your landing page! I recorded my first impressions before I'd read through the features. Here's the video

I've broken up my feedback into a few categories and tried my best to include bullet points on the main areas I mentioned in the video

1. Jobs-to-be-done and value proposition

• I immediately understood what the product is and what I could do with it. This is a great start
• I'm imagining myself as a creator who wants to make tutorials but make them look more professional and keep my audience engaged.
• I can't determine value because there isn't a price yet but I'm convinced that there's room for a tool like this in the market and would expect to pay between $20-50 once off (depending on feature set and product maturity) and some a recurring subscription of around $5-15/m if there were reasonable cloud offerings like hosting, analytics – a compelling feature that only works if I'm hosting my video with you

2. Resilience and differentiation

• I immediately started comparing VidHacker to CleanShot X or Loom. However I could quickly understand why I might choose VidHacker over those options; this tool is focused on tutorials/explainers. I'd buy CleanShot if I needed something more generic but with good macOS UX and Loom if I needed something for collaboration or enterprise
• VidHacker feels differentiated because of the use case – I encourage you to emphasise those features more than saving time or highlighting table stakes features like subtitles or even noise reduction
• I could imagine this product may have a high churn rate if it was an offline/local tool that required a subscription because I might buy one month, record my explainer and then cancel. Resilience may increase if there was a hosted option that felt compelling

3. Execution

• I like the aesthetic and the design captured my attention
• CTA copy is fine but only if I really can Free Download or Purchase Now. Until then let's change it to be more honest about the waitlist
• Speaking of the waitlist; I expected the modal to close when clicking outside of the modal or hitting escape. The X button wasn't immediately obvious and I pointed out why in the video
• This may not be possible considering the product is still being developed but I'd like to see real screenshots and example videos
• Small graphic details when looking at this in 4k. The AI feature has a GIF that looks pixelated, same with the ✅ buttons in Visually appealing background, even the blue cursor itself. If they can all be swapped to SVGs that'd be great
• Output size balancing could use some copy reworking as mentioned and while the dropdown is cool I think I'd more easily understand the value of the feature if I could visually skim and see platform logos. I don't need to see all the options that might be presented in the settings of the app to understand the benefit of the feature
• Minor padding inconsistencies and some text that uses rem sizing scales down too small on mobile
• Let's ditch the Times New Roman in the footer and consider using a CSS gradient rather than the image background because it clips on certain screen sizes. Also the border colour is different in the footer compared to the rest of the sections

Please let me know if you've got any questions or feel free to shoot me a message if you'd like me to take a second look at it in the future.

Thanks again for sharing and keep up the good work! There's a long road ahead but you've made a great start

I love the idea for the tool, but I think execution is extremely critical for it's success. If it's very easy to use I think it would thrive, if it's difficult to use I think it will fail.

Nice to see this. I am glad you are building the waitlist that most people ignore to do.