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Roast my landing page 🔥 and make me cry 😭

by Brayden

Hey there! Thanks for taking time out of your day to review BuildFaster's landing page.

I want you to rip it apart 🔥

Seriously. I want you to tell me if anything is strange to you, any links are not working, the copy is weird, or basically anything else. 😂

https://buildfaster.netlify.app/

Brayden's avatarBrayden
on June 10, 2020
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    Haha love the prompts to honesty. I think the designs seem decent but you don't do a good job showing them, I would make each template full-bleed occupying as much space on screen as possible with minimal chrome / explainer in either sidebar or footer with some scroll prompts. Also your articulation of the USP doesn't really differentiate you enough from most other ppl selling templates, I would recommend going for only one niche at first.

    looseyesterday's avatar looseyesterday
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      Thanks! I set the job of "making my template stand out on my website" as #1 today :)

      I am probably going to focus my niche as easy-to-use and neat code. What do you think?

      Brayden's avatar Brayden
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        glad to hear you found my comment helpful! I think easy-to-use and neat code is not enough of a niche since quite a few template makers out there already focus on this, also easy-to-use / neat code are quite subjective and hard to measure objectively. A good niche might be something like landing pages for indie hackers or portfolio templates for python developers. Idk if you read Zero to one, but as per Thiel's advice in the book, I think its a really good idea to start with an extremely narrow target market you can easily dominate, that way you can build bespoke products that really exceed expectations. Obv. you have to be careful not to define the target niche so narrowly that it doesn't exist at all ! But would love to see how you get on :)

        looseyesterday's avatar looseyesterday
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        6 years ago
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          Thanks! I was thinking of mainly selling high quality 1-pager templates/portfolios

          Brayden's avatar Brayden
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    You have some nice themes here! Here are my 2 cents on the landing page:

    • Remove the autoplaying music. The video could be fine, but it should start muted
    • There's not a call-to-action above the fold. It might be worth adding a browse button if that's the action you want people to take.
    • Change "What is Trending?" to "What's Trending?
    • The use of the word "stunning" kind of sounds a bit self-serving to the person who made the quote. Although it did make me click the link, so I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
    • "Latest Standards" might be a big vague and meaningless to someone looking to buy themes
    • "themes are all organized well" doesn't really tell me anything as a consumer. I'm not sure how that makes my life any different than a theme that's not organized well
    • The background is a bit distracting. It might work better with the hero image on one side and text on the other. Or the video on one side and text on the other

    I hope this helps!

    cohoist's avatar cohoist
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      Oh I’m in tears 😭

      😂 haha I’m just fine.

      Thanks for the feedback though. You made some very good points that I didn’t see before. Especially the hero section with the image. Thanks!

      Brayden's avatar Brayden
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        No problem! Happy to provide that second pair eyes! Keep fine tuning that landing page and you'll be increasing conversions in no time. 👍

        cohoist's avatar cohoist
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          Thanks 😀

          Brayden's avatar Brayden
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