What are you afraid to ask for feedback on?

Thanks for sharing! Found a minor typo: "Learn what people think your website or mobile app" is missing the word "about" or "of."

I think this is a straightforwardly helpful product whose value is very clear, and your landing page does a good job conveying it. I particularly liked the "effortless setup" section and its illustrations, which made it look so easy that I clicked it to try it out!

The fact that you've ease of use as a big selling point means that the Google Form you link to should, probably, be much shorter. Otherwise I worry that people will be excited to try your product because it's quick and easy, then get discouraged by the form and quit because it's long and cumbersome, and you will take that lack of response to mean your landing page isn't good.

In the long run, I might put more thought into differentiation. How is this any better than UserTesting? If it's identical but cheaper, you'll be on track for hard times in the future when users are asking for more features, your costs are rising, and you need to raise prices, thus becoming less and less differentiated. But it sounds like you're already looking at niches, which is great.

One story I recommend is David Darmanin's. He made some innovative feature/infrastructure decisions with his analytics tool, Hotjar, which allows him to permanently compete on price against other analytics tools.

Simple and beautiful web site design. The Mac app looks gorgeous too. Well done!

I'd suggest you to move the "Download Robinhood for Mac" button straight to the front page. This way users can directly download the .dmg with one click only and could improve conversions. I understand there are installation instructions, but you can probably show that just below the download button on front page.

I'd also suggest a minor tweak: do not open Terms and Privacy Policy pages on new windows. That will keep users at the same window all the time.

I like the design. What's your goal? Is this something you want to charge for directly? Btw, thanks for supporting the podcast!

Nice! I keep a log of the impactful things I get done each month. I think everyone should. It's usually very impressive for others to read.

In your shoes, I might spend far more time/effort discussing the benefits rather than the product. Yes, this is a chatbot, but that's not what's important. What's important is that you've discovered a way to help people feel better about their work. To get their work recognized. To get promoted on the job.

Why not dive into that wholeheartedly? Think about the best way to help people accomplish these goals. Write about what you learn, and why it's important. Share success stories from people who've gotten promoted. I think tech norms have made us all obsessed with products, but with something like this your product should take a back seat imo. Try putting the feelings, the promotions, the winning, the success, the people first. Don't just build a product, start a movement.

Or don't do any of this! Just trying to think about this from a unique angle that will help you stand out.

A few suggestions:

• limit the width of the page, to something like 1000px, it's far too wide on my monitor
• reduce spacing between stories; it's too hard to scan otherwise,
  and scanning is the #1 activity your users will do (look at other forums and news sites to compare your spacing to theirs)
• make sure this list gets updated on a regular basis, ideally a few times per day, otherwise people will not come back on a regular bass
• comments would be great, but only if you can get them! otherwise, having a site that says "0 comments" everywhere is worse than not having any comment system at all

Good luck!

Wow, super impressed. Love the design. It's beautiful and professional. I instantly trust you, although some social proof would go a long way.

The top header text is confusing. The only part of it I understand is "Notify your users of new features." The other parts, "Product updates made easy" and "measure adoption over time" are redundant and confusing to me, respectively. Why not put some benefits up here? What is the prime benefit I get for using your product?

The little demos in the header, while beautiful, were confusing at first. The "in-product widget" and "timeline" text that only appears on hover should be permanently visible, imo. And instead of just saying what they are, you should say what value they provide, too.

"Building and delivering continuously is valuable, sharing updates and collecting feedback too." Typo here, missing the word "is" before "too." Also, I don't like this sentence. You're talking a lot about things that I do, but you're not talking about ways I will benefit. Similarly, in the list below, you've got a lot of features there, but the only benefit that really speaks to me is "Improve customer retention."

I think you're offering somewhat of a novel product, so imo you really can't count on visitors to connect the dots on why they need yet another tool. When you list features that's what you're doing, you're hoping users connect the dots to how the features will benefit them. Imo, you should do the absolute minimum to explain what the product is and how it works, and then dive hard into listing the benefits that your customers care about — more users, more customers, more money, higher retention, lower churn, lower costs, etc.

You can find out the best language to use here by doing some sales. Talk to a bunch of people, try to sign them up, and see why they say yes or no. Here's why I might say no at this point in time:

• This will increase my retention rates? How? And by how much? I don't really believe you.
• Seems like a lot of work to set up and maintain, especially if it doesn't really help.
• Will this make me look bad if I don't release new features for a while?
• All these additional use-cases are confusing. Why are there so many?
• The pricing is so confusing. Why are there so many options?
• Isn't this simple use-case of just showing users what's new enough for me to build myself? What more do I need?

I think you can address all these objections and complaints, btw! What you've built is awesome and looks great, just a matter of selling and tweaking and selling and tweaking to find your ideal customer/product combo.

Really like the design and layout of your landing page. It communicates everything perfectly and looks professional. So it's hard to leave feedback on the page itself.

As for the product, I use AWS Lambda in combination with AWS CloudWatch. I suppose I should sign up for Cronhub, but I don't feel a lot of urgency. Maybe that's because I have a lot of faith in AWS running my jobs? Or maybe that's because the background tasks for Indie Hackers aren't all that important? It's just hard to justify prioritizing something like that over the zillion other things I need to do to try to grow the site.

Based on that, maybe you should be spending your time finding people/businesses/niches that heavily depend on their recurring jobs. Can you tailor your features to them? I know Pieter Levels just built some sort of massive grid that reports on the status of all his "robots" as he calls them. Can you convince him to use your product instead of maintaining his own version? If not, why not? I'm just spitballing here.

Also, I recommend asking people for specific growth-related feedback, otherwise you'll get generic feedback on your landing page, which is more than good enough. Talk to your users en masse, find out whether they'll buy, then come back and share your findings with the community! That'll give us much more info to work with.

Interesting concept! My biggest feedback is on your landing page formatting. Your font is really small, thin, and hard to read. And if you're going to have multiple paragraphs, you should put a blank line between them.

As for the value proposition, I totally get it. I think you've made it very clear, which is great. Will teams pay for it? No idea! How many teams have you talked to? Go out and talk to 100 of them. Or at least 50. You'll learn waaaay more than I can ever tell you here.

One challenge is that it's hard to demonstrate the value of saving people time. I like your /qdo stats command. Some ideas:

• Can you make it so that shows something like, "Your team has avoided 3,340 hours of distraction this month," or something like that? Or maybe show that stat every time a distraction-free session ends.
• Would it be possible to make this freemium? Let teams use it fore free until they reach a certain number of hours saved. In other words, don't ask people to pay until they've made it a habit to use your app.

Also, be careful building something that's so dependent on another company's platform. They can put you out of business in a second. Happens all the time, unfortunately.

This talk by Derek Sivers might help you decide what's best: https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself

I love looking at other interview sites. They help me look at my own interviews with a more objective eye. My first question is, who are these interviews targeted at, and what do you want your readers to get out of them? For example, are they trying to learn something specific? Spending time thinking about that will help you conduct better interviews that resonate with people more strongly.

As for the layout, I think it's mostly fine. The font size and line height are a little big. And the title could be better:

Conversations With Alore: Building An Innovative Business In New Markets – Kuunda 3D

The important, compelling part — "Building An Innovative Business In New Markets" — is buried in the middle and hard to see.

As for the CTAs, ideally they should align with why people are reading this article. On the right side of your article, you've got a box that says "Email," but doesn't tell me why I should enter my email or what I'll get out of it. The popup in the bottom left corner provides a little bit more information, but still feels disconnected. I'm not sure what it wants me to do — it just has a blue button that says "Send to Messenger". What does that mean? Will I get emails? And why would I want emails?

If I were you, I might experiment with a large variety of content instead of locking myself into a particular series. Give yourself a chance to see what resonates and what doesn't, then double down on the good stuff. Explore and exploit.

Thanks for sharing!

Cool landing page. I deploy a lot of code to the cloud for IH, so this should be relevant to me, but reading the page, I can't tell that it is. I think you may have lost me at, "The Infrastructure as Code security scanner you've always needed." I'm not sure what an "infrastructure as code security scanner" is, exactly, what it scans for, what kind of code it works with, or why I need it. The next line, "Catch vulnerabilities before deploying cloud resources" makes a lot of sense to me, but I still don't know if this is even applicable to the code I deploy, so I'm kind of dead in the water.

Also, when you're selling people on safety, I think it's tough, because I'm not going to immediately make money, add users, etc. as a result of your product. In fact, your product might never even save me from anything bad. I've never used a code security scanner before, and it doesn't feel urgent that I adopt one. But it will certainly take me time an effort to set up.

Ideally you want the value you provide to customers to be more salient than the costs you subject them to, so I'd spend some time thinking about that.

VALUE: Paint some disaster scenarios for me. Show me how you prevent them. Show me that everyone else is using code scanners. If it's valuable, shouldn't I feel dumb for not using one?

COSTS: Tell me how easy and painless it is to setup. I want to be up and running in minutes. Is it going to slow down my deploy process indefinitely? Show me that it doesn't. Will it work with my current setup? Show me that it does.

Cool site! Question: Who are these interviews intended for? If you try to imagine someone who absolutely has to sit down and read these, why are they doing so? Ideally there is some valuable information in your interviews that can't be found elsewhere on the web, or, barring that, they're just extremely entertaining.

I just talked to David Smooke, the creator of Hacker Noon, today on the IH podcast. His sites get ~200,000 readers per day. A lot of that comes from viral posts, and it's impossible to predict exactly what will blow up, so he encourages a lot variety, then looks at what's working, and doubles down on that. "Explore and exploit." Maybe try doing a bit more exploration and branching out with your interviews. (This is something I really need to do with my interviews on Indie Hackers as well.)

Thanks for sharing! I'm leaning toward the "why would I use that" side of things. Now, partly that's because I'm probably not your target customer. I don't create a lot of static sites, and I'm quite comfortable with the command line, and with building an HTML page without a WYSIWYG editor.

But also, I had to do too much reading. There's nothing on that page that says to visitors, "this is for people like you" or "this will make your life doing X easier." You've got a list of features, but I find it hard to care much about features unless I know the product is for me.

I'd spend less time adding features, and more time figuring out who this is for. Is it for developers who hate CSS? Is it for bootstrappers building landing pages? Is it for people learning to code? Connect your product to a real-world problem, a real set of people. Try talking to people who you think are your target customers one-on-one, and see why they tell you they will or won't buy. This should inform your marketing copy, as well as your feature roadmap.

Nice! I almost immediately got what this was and why it's useful. I wonder if language like "Close More Deals" would be more compelling than "Enhance Your Follow Ups". 🤔

When I was pitching people to advertise on IH, something like this would have helped for sure. I'm not sure I would've pulled the trigger and bought your product as-is, however. Here are some things I might've liked to see:

• Are you an expert on this? I'd like some proof you know about sales. Teach me something, and I'll trust you more that your product can work. Your product is ripe for content marketing, and education-based selling. I'd guess a lot of your customers are people who are just figuring out how to do sales for the first time. For example, I'm not even sure exactly when I'd send your page out to prospects.
• I'm kind of a design snob. One of your main selling points is, "create professional deal pages that impress buyers," so you would have to impress me with your design first before I trust you there. In the meantime, I'd make my own page. (But I realize that most people are far less picky than I am!)
• More emphasis on the fact that there's a demo. I didn't even notice the demo button at first. Maybe my fault, though.
• I'm not a fan of the demo page. It loads slowly, some of the images are broken, it's far too wide, and it has so many sections that I'm not sure it makes things simpler. Again, I'm pickier than most here, but if your selling point is visuals and UX then you will lose people who aren't sold on your visual design and UX skills. I want to know that the page you make is better than one I can make.

Hope this helps! I think you have a promising product that can solve a straightforward and valuable problem for people, and it's largely a matter of iterating on it.

The site looks great. You may need to have a look at the padding/margins as you scroll down. I would keep this simple
and focus honing the follow up in sales which is critical to any sales team.

Have a look at attach.io, I believe that's the name of the site.

Cheers

Random idea: turn this into a mailing list. Send out 5 new highlights every Friday or something. Curate the highlights yourself to ensure that they're really good, because some of them are pretty bad out of context. Link to the books on Amazon using affiliate links. Get a designer to make you a very simple landing page and newsletter template that look amazing. (Your current website is usable, but it's not pretty. 😇) Launch!

I think the messaging is clear, although it's wordy, and it could also be more convincing. What are tutors' main pain points? Is it that their clients pay late, or they miss payments, or paying is cumbersome, or asking for payments is awkward? I would talk to tutors, find out the answer, then update the top headline to address that, e.g. "ALWAYS GET PAID ON TIME." or "GET PAID WITHOUT THE HASSLE." Get them interested, then describe how it works.