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Please roast my landing page 😇🔫👹

We just finished our landing page, but we are struggling to properly describe our product. If you have time to take a peek, a big virtual hug will be given in return 🤗

https://ember.ly/

on February 26, 2020
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    OMG! I love the big gif that shows the software being used. More sites should be doing this. Clear value proposition. I just signed up. Building treemaps of ideas and noting things down in hierarchical way is something I've been meaning to build for a long time.

    I can't wait to start playing with the product. Gina, I'm following you.

    I think I'd love to see more examples of how you'd use this with clients and other use cases. Like is it collaborative like figma, multiple people editing a tree and building out ideas. Does it work offline e.t.c

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      Wow! I love your reaction 🥰✨. Awesome that you signed up! We are currently testing an internal build on a few users, and we are hoping to have the early access ready for you to test before May. 🤘🥳

      Currently, there is no realtime collaborative function, but that is a really cool idea! If you were to use this tool to build Idea-maps, it would be a major advantage for teams to build them together.

      For now, if you need to get that job done, both MindMeister and mind node support notes and links in each node. However, they are not realtime. Miro has a realtime collaboration of building mind maps, but they don't support notes and links in the nodes.

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    Honestly, it looks pretty good at first-glance! Cool images, big bold text. Good job!

    My questions are more around use... how did this come about?

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      Hey, thanks John! 🙌😊 That's a great question! Well, this product arose from my own problem. I built a personal skill tree in a mind map tool to help plan and focus my learning. I'm a curious and disorganized person, and I have a habit of trying to learn too many things at once. I mapped out my skills and forced myself to only focus on 3 skills at one time. The rest I marked as "to learn later" with a 🏁. I kept using this for years, as it helped me stay focused. Here is a link to the old tree I used before I started using our app: https://coggle.it/diagram/XjHzltPV-0gRG_xB/t/the-skillset-of-gina-husebø-work-in-progress/94f7e1be5d19a11f2eba4fa5929b11bdbe9fcf75fef9e220552e03c20f6950c4

      Later I found another useful way to use my skill tree. As I came across articles and youtube videos that were related to one of my skills, I could simply paste the link to the skill it belongs to in the tree. That way, when I have to perform that skill, all my discoveries are ready for reading. Before stray articles like this broke my flow because my curiousness didn't want to "lose" that article I found. This was a source of anxiety. Before that, I tried to store articles like this in Pocket, but it quickly became too much in the backlog to handle.

      Thanks for the question! You made me reflect on the core problem. I will definitely reflect some more, and use it to revise the landing page.

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        love that! thanks for walking me through it — i was having a hard time following!

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    Visually, your website looks good, I like that domain as well.

    I had to read/scroll the page twice to find out what it's about. At first, I thought it would be a tool to organize and study my knowledge.

    For the top of your site: what about something along the lines of Show your knowledge or Tell recruiters all the things you know?

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      Thanks for taking the time to give feedback, Martin! 🙏😊. Your first reaction was correct. It is a tool to organize and study your knowledge.

      Showing off your knowledge is a bi-product, so perhaps we should omit that part from the landing page to avoid confusion... 🤔

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        Ah, got it! 😅

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    Hi @Ginu,

    I like your simple website name along with nice, clear UI.

    Take full control of your knowledge - This statement is a little vague

    try checking out: https://mindnode.com/

    All the best.

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      Thanks, Prahalad! I appreciate your feedback! 🥳✨
      Ah, you thought this was a mind map tool. I guess I have some more work to do on the landing page. 😅🤘

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        That being said, mindnode is only for ios and mac. A web based solution could definitely fly. See how figma.com is driving a revolution in design even though Photoshop and sketch have been around for ages. In online world you can collaborate and there is nothing to install.

        Don't give up hope because there is a competitor.