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Roast my landing page: CodeApprove

The title pretty much says it it all, here's my landing page. Roast away!
https://codeapprove.com/

CodeApprove is a code review tool for teams on GitHub. The target audience is people who have worked at large companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc) and have experienced the excellent in-house tools those companies have and want the same type of pro experience on GitHub.

on January 7, 2023
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    1. The large image has text that is too small. Ppl naturally want to read text, and if it's too small, it gives a bad experience.

    I would put far fewer lines of code on the image and zoom in far more

    1. What's with the floating profile pictures? They don't seem to add anything.

    2. "Get the tools your team needs to review better" the image there is still too small with regards to text.

    Everything else is great.

    Do you have a twitter? Would love to keep track of your project. Looks interesting. Here's mine: https://twitter.com/TheRealEtch

    Currently working on https://evoke-app.com/

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      Thanks for the feedback! I agree with the hero image being way too hard to read, I will work on that.

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    Your tool looks neat!

    I needed to read through the details to understand how it might be different and better than the standard Github UI. "Review pull requests like a pro - CodeApprove helps streamline code review for teams so you can ship better code faster." sounds great, but I didn't understand what the tool is and how it helps at that point.

    It is worth emphasizing the differences and advantages more and moving a summary into the header/subheader, e.g., "A streamlined UI for GitHub pull requests that helps you ship faster."

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      Thanks for the feedback! I have definitely been struggling with the tagline ... hard to describe what it is in one line without just saying "it's better"

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    I was looking at you LP. Fm it can still be jumped up a notch. I checked out the space and there are many code review tools and code review tools focused for github.

    So far, my fav tag is CodeScene

    So simple, it feels obvious.

    They elaborate the offering and provide evidence an image used 'One tool to visualise, understand and improve your software when it comes to code '

    My sense, your fellow developer's would be more brutal than me (UX, non-programmer). This is why I am taking the time to comment. Can you have one image of all the failings of the current github offering? If so, before/after experience in a 2 panel view is more impactful. Scroll to gleam benefits is quite a low impact.

    '"chat" with an AI when I am stuck

    This is your comment on Rubberduck. This is a perfect tagline for that product. Its real. Its an experience. I can see from your visuals on the LP your giving real-time specific feedback. Big picture context . + flagging any devil in the details problem

    So what is the specific experience you get from using CodeApprove, that is not possible anywhere else? Does not have to be its best feature. Just that best experience.