Hi Indiehackers π
I did it again π I'm validating a new idea: https://searchbox.carrd.co
Indies are definitely in the intended target audience, so I would be very thankful π if you:
Reverse the order.
You read this first - "Find those messages instantly" and have no idea. What messages?
Then you see "Search Gmail, Slack, Whatsapp, all in one place" which is smaller and the wrong color.
So start with 'Search Gmail, Slack, Whatsapp, all in one place'.
Kill the 'find those messages'. It is vague and unhelpful.
The presentation (landing page) could be improved. I struggled to understand the offering when doing the "3sec skim test"... i read a little more and now I get it, but the landing page isn't doing any favors.
"Organizing" isn't what people want... "Finding" is what they want. Getting the answer immediately. Finding that message by a simple search (i.e. searchbox). Organizing is the "what it does" and no one cares about that. They care about "what's in it for me"... that is, finding what i need in an instant! :)
I think you are right! I went with 'organise' because I wanted to communicate results, but the result of 'search' might be 'finding', what do you think about "all your messages under your fingertips"?
This is probably not what your product is, but my initial reaction after reading the copy and seeing the text field for entering my email address was that you would have a real live person search through my mail for me. Maybe it's because the page uses "we" a lot and my immediate thought is "we" is a team of people who will manually search my email. Also, most email clients or services already have a search feature, so...
If that's what your product actually is, not interested as that would be creepy. lol But if it's some automated system that does the search (still kind of scary), maybe you should use the name of the product instead of "we"?
LoL, thanks!
Your remarks really stipulate I should cut the bullshit and go for clarity. I do that thing where I try to appear a little bigger by using we (were it really is 'me').
I also see that I am a little vague on purpose to give the audience some room to use their imagination, but that backfires.
What it really is: I'm gonna build a client (no backend, so na data leak) that searches your communication apps (using their own API's), possibly doing a little query expansion in version 2.
The core idea sounds interesting, the Hero section definitely caught my attention
If I'm going to give access to most of my messaging platforms, I would definitely need more information about the privacy policy. Is it safe? How is my data handled?
At this point, this sounds like a good idea but didn't make me want to subscribe. Maybe some screenshots of the prototype would raise more interest.
I could imagine an illustration with all the platforms being around, being very noisy, but then going through your app icon, becoming one, unified inbox.
At this point, I am not quite sure I would use something like that actually. I like to have my emails and IMs separated, so it's not something I would look for. Maybe you can put some work into convincing people, why it's good for them.
Now I realize, that I completely misunderstood your product. I thought this would be like an inbox app with a list of messages coming from all platforms, but now I realize that it's like Google for your personal data. Sort of Apple Spotlight if you used only Apple services, right? Maybe you could clarify this because if I misunderstood, maybe others will too.
Thanks @gaboratorium,
These are all valid points, and very practical (that is why I love Indiehackers)!
And yes: Spotlight for your messages that is a very good description. You are the second one to mention that, I'm gonna try this one out.
I'm designing this as a thin client, without any of your data over my servers. Because a) your communication is yours and b) I don't want to be responsible for it anyway. Is that a good pitch?
Landing page white font on busy background is hard to read.
As for the message, when I read "all your inboxes" I got confused - which inboxes? I would get interested if you immediately referred to whatsup, slack, gmail, and others.
Hope this helps!
π
Good feedback! The font is easy and true. The message part hits home; I need to be clear first, anything else is second.
Would you buy the service?
I'd pay if I heavily used whatsup and slack for work, but I don't. I would though pay for a similar service that covers other messaging systems like reddit, IH, HN etc.
That makes sense, thanks!
Hm, well. I think I'd like to see a privacy policy link at the bottom - if you're going to go through all my inbox data that's pretty personal. Also, I'm not understanding how adding my email will organize my inbox - clearly, that just gives you the ability to email me. So, more clarity there. Maybe a Chrome extension or such would be a better format for this, a desktop application or phone app like Mail that syncs multiple email accounts.
π
These are valuable remarks! I can answer them really well, so I really should add that too the landing page more clearly.
None of your data ever ever leaves your phone or email/message provider (I wouldn't want to hold on to it if you paid me). It will be a desktop/phone app, for exactly that reason. It appears that is not clear enough.
The app will search your existing apps for you, that is the first thing it will organise. Well if that is not clear enough, this landing page is pretty crummy.