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Thoughts on my sharing platform homepage?

I am working on a sharing platform where developers get to instantly showcase and share their projects, apps, portfolio pages. And if non-developers visit the site, they get to check out and use all the apps they like there as well.

What do you guys think of the homepage and the whole platform in general ? The homepage would essentially contain lists of projects people posted. Should I add categories, etc?

Here's the link: loakee.com

on January 3, 2021
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    1. My first instinct is to click on the images which doesn't do anything
    2. Maybe hide the date until hover on the card, checkout codepen.io to see how they structure cards
    3. Could be an idea to show how the upload of an app process works. Maybe a video demo
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      I see! thank you so much for the great feedback, will work on this !

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    I think that a value prop above all the listing would be helpful for visitors to help understand what it is they're looking at. I only knew what I was looking at because I read the text in this post.

    I'd be a bit afraid to click "launch widget" because to me that implies something loading on my computer. I think changing the CTA to something more friendly may be helpful :-)

    The site layout looks clean and is easily readable. 👍

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      thank you very much for this feedback, didn't know how potentially intimating that could sound : p , will change it to more friendly one now

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    Good start @loakee

    Can we say it's a portfolio / showcase site?

    Maybe you can check out Behance, Dribbble to see how they structure their design.

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    Hi Luca,

    Here are some suggestions for improving the landing page:

    1. I would move the search from navbar to header. It's the primary action of the site and currently it gets overlooked.
    2. The LOAKEE logo text and the navbar links text have the same font-weight. Consider dropping the font-weights of navbar links for better visual hierarchy.
    3. Cards drop the shadow when they are hovered. As a user, I would expect that to be opposite. When I hover over something, it has to be raised in depth. Consider using small drop-shadows for inactive state and larger for hover state. You can use tailwind or bootstrap shadows. They are good.
    4. I would also suggest to add a one line description for projects because developers name their projects one way and describe them in another.
    5. Categories is definitely a good idea. Please do that.
    6. I would also recommend using a solid color background for now in the header.

    Hope it helps. Good luck.

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      thank you so much for all these great feedbacks, will work on them!

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        Cool, would love to see some of those live.