Updating the landing page to story creator
https://storycreatorapp.com/
Taking a step back from building the product. I spent today revamping the landing page in hopes to increase sign-ups to the early access.
As I post this I am working on the animation to the right. I am using CSS animations to explain the product. I am excited to share what I am working on next. Stay tuned.
In the meantime. I would like to know if the landing page makes sense. Also if this is a problem you have that needs to be solved. If it is a problem you have, would you sign up in its current form? If not, then why?
Cheers
You need to polish it. It's not possible to scroll the page on the mobile device as it was mentioned already. After clicking demo, the "editor" is not repsonsive, looks messy on mobile device, it would be better just show "Not supported" message or so, if it's too big effort to make it responsive at the moment. I also suggest to use sentence case for products Photoshop, After Effects, like you do for Story Creator :) it will look more solid. Good luck!
Yeah, the app is definitely a mess on mobile. I fixed the mobile responsiveness on the landing page.
I am very grateful for the feedback. I would much rather it be imperfect and have people check it out then be in stealth mode for years.
Will definitely be making improvements over the coming days. Stay tuned.
There is no scrollbar in Chrome or Firefox. Therefore I couldn't see the entire landing page.
You're right. I wrote a bug, I needed to disable scrolling in the app and since they're the same codebase it applied to the marketing page also.
I have fixed it! Appreciate the feedback.
Much better. I'm confused by the text "Hey You! Check out the demo". It made me click the graphics, but nothing happened.
Interesting. I really didnt know what else to say. I was mainly focused on getting the animation to work. I think better text would be describing the feature itself.
Again thanks for the feedback.
liked the home page. It's clean and the animated part explains the product well. Personally I didn't like the diagonal movement of the animation at the end espicawllly the it covered the toolbar links. the text "Choose from thousands of beautiful photos from unsplash and pexels" is way off to the left and I would put it in a clearer spot. These are just net picking though. Won't prevent signing up for the app.
Didn't have the scrolling problem others were talking about so I assume it's fixed.
One more thing, not everyone knows that unsplash and pexels images are free to use. Maybe you should mention that so that the user knows he wouldn't be using copyrighted images.
Thanks for the feedback. I was working late last night and made updates to the app. I totally forgot about the home page. The unsplash is just a placeholder reminder to build a beautiful section talking about that. Thanks for the honest feedback though. If this were in production trying to make sales that would definitely need to be addressed ASAP.
I fixed the scrolling issue. It’s crazy all the little details haha. I am so grateful for y’all helping out. Thanks so much. I’ll be coding today making it even better.
How did the diagonal movement make you feel?
It just felt a bit weird and it hides the buttons at the end so people might not notice them. I would prefer if the animation moved vertically, but again that might be just me. See if many people had the same feeling.
Fair enough. I would agree it blends in with the buttons. I'll keep playing around. I am shooting to launch in one month. So I'll keep getting feedback. I appreciate you.
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Looks good in terms of Visuals but i still didn't get the idea what the product really is? Trello things give a Good vibe.
Good point. I am hoping the new copy makes it clear and focused. After talking to people it seemed to be a bit all over the place. I appreciate the feedback and hope the update makes it more clear.
I like the animation demo. After 5 seconds the chat pop-up appeared and went over the animation. Perhaps you could add the chat pop-up animation to appear after about 10-15 seconds or after the user scrolled further down a bit. Just a suggestion ofc :)
This is a great suggestion. It's a hard problem. I wonder if it would be better to only show the chat widget inside the app and not on the marketing page. I do like the idea of people having the ability to reach me without commitment.
Ill think of some strategies to make the UX a bit better. Thanks for your feedback.
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Thank you. I am using React actually. Typekit for the fonts. The animation was hand-coded using styled-components (essentially CSS keyframes).