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Are you saying they blocked it because you didn't include the S in https?

Congratulations!!!

Questions:

1. How did you manage to post to Reddit without being banned for self-promotion?
2. Did it really take just a month from a landing page to a beta? Wow!!!

Best of luck with your project!

Congrats! Make sure you do something to celebrate. Cheers!

I am not sure if this is what it's supposed to look like, but after I clicked "Generate Challenge" I got this screen on Chrome 86, Windows 10.

Congrats!

Oh wow this is super interesting! It would be super interesting to allow submissions somewhere (or maybe there already is a place)! I build a UI component library recently as was thinking of creating something similar but your version is definitely much more interesting with the "autogenerated" specs! Will be keeping an eye on the project for sure :)

Nice Work, I love the idea!

A really small thing, you should update your meta description tag (public/index.html) as it's still the default create-react-app one 🙃

Congrats on the launch! Checking it out now :)

Hey Nero, this is really great. An insight I had recently that might be helpful for you is that although challenges like these are a great tool for learning some practical skills, true step-functions of growth as a designer happen when you're forced to demo your work and have others critique it. I think that a matchmaking feature that enables this would make this app a total game-changer.

Keep up the good work,

Oh wow, the product looks really nice and original. I'm curious to see how it evolves over time.

Nice job, also followed you on twitter to keep an eye on your future endeavours :)

Neat! Love how simple it is to use. How do you generate the challenges? GPT-3 or is it a pre-defined list?

Good job man! This is looking good 💪

Hello

Congrats, dude! Love the UI, btw.

I submitted Hyperjump to BetaList because of this post and it was just featured! Thank you for the heads up. Liked your post on BetaList!

https://betalist.com/startups/hyperjump

Hi Nero,

340 signups is great - congrats to that!

I know it is hard to simply ignore that inner voice that says "you will fail" which is powered by mean things people say or write. The truth is: Most of them don't really have a point, because of these facts:

1. Beauty (as well as the opposite) is something that is not an objective measure but a fairly subjective perception, thus there will always be people who don't like the result of a process that is established to produce something beautiful.
2. If they wanted to support you somehow, they would be constructive instead of just bashing on you and your landing page. They would provide you with suggestions how to make your product better.

If people don't want to help you (what obviously happens here), they often do one of these two things:

1. Ignore you (which often feels better than being bashed on) or
2. Try to bring you down. I don't find why people would do that, but as more people are reached, there is a higher chance to also reach people who try to bring you down. There might be various reasons for that, for example they are jealous; they think they could do it better but don't have the guts to try out; etc. Most of these reasons are reasons that provoke bad feelings in these people. And in their heads you are responsible for that. For them it seems like you provoked their feelings and fear of failure.

So, unless it is constructive critique, it is basically just expressing their negative emotions and not really a reflection of your product or your work.

I hope this helps you on your journey. Don't let yourself being dragged down by anonymous posters on the internet. It is hard - but it is not worth it. Continue your journey. Continue working on your product and don't let people's bad attitudes block you from fulfilling your dreams!

Chris

Haters are a sign of success

Checkout Janel on twitter ;)

Some constructive criticism: Your landing page could use some improvements, but 'trash'? I would disagree. The two biggest changes that would have the biggest difference in the perceived quality of your page would likely be in the background color (try something easier on the eyes like #f0f3f7) and a higher res image of your logo. Also, consider using a UI library like Bootstrap or Fomantic UI.

I can completely relate to your feelings. The most important thing to remember is that you are not your product. If you can actually split those sentiments, and you analyze the situation with as much coldness as you can, perhaps there's even something to learn from it. It is hard, but that's life and what you'll need to do to succeed.

Focus on the metrics: 340 signups is quite an achievement, focus on the positive comments: Those will get you a boost of confidence, skim through the negative comments: there may be something valuable there, but as I said, don't take it as a personal attack.

If you say you made the website as an MVP and someone is complaining about non-polished edges, then, that's fine! Actually, it is a compliment. There could be so many things to critique on an MVP that if what they find are the fine details...

I've checked your page, the landing page is really not my style, but I see you have the same style on your other websites, and they relate to how Glitch looks like... So I think you are targeting a niche in the UI world, and that will create friction. And it may be fine, it could be that you are actually striking a nerve and you should definitely capitalize on it. Want to make "old-looking pages?" or do you want to make "Glitch-modern pages?", don't know if you get what I mean...

Good luck! Toxic feedback is hard to come through, but the quicker you manage to, the more awesome things you'll achieve.

Three things come to mind here:

1. The fact that there's significant interest in your product means it has resonated with the users. You've convinced them that there is value in what you are offering. Focus on this audience and ignore the critics.

2. There are a lot of folks out there who have not found success and when they hear about other's ideas/execution, it stirs up jealousy.

3. The vast majority of /r/startups users are "wantrepreneurs." They sit around dreaming up half-baked ideas but never get anywhere. This is why I avoid it like the plague. Instead, spend your time surrounded by people that will support you, like the Indiehackers community.

some people called my landing page trash, garbage, an eyesore, and so many hurtful comments

So, you prefer to hear only "great design", "nice color gamma" etc. ? You really think your design is great? Maybe, but maybe just ask them what exactly wrong with your design instead of complaining about "toxic" comments.

Let's experiment. Publish here, on IH, a short post with link to your resource and add the poll asking about your design. You will have the real picture.

P.S. There is subreddit called "roast my startup". Its first rule is "If you can't face the heat, don't waste our time". The same rule can be applied to the business. If you can't face negative opinions, don't waste your time, nerves, effort, and everything else.

Reddit is NOT exactly the right place to expect nice, supportive comments or motivation because of the nature of the platform and anonymity. Reddit can work wonders for your product to achieve virality, traffic or signups but should also be ready to hear or see comments that might not give you a good feeling.

But as founders and makers, we should learn to just move on by picking things that help us progress and leave things that pull us down.

Btw, that's a great domain and a simple website. Well done.

340 sign-ups in 2 days seems a good validation of your idea.

We all have to strike a balance between filtering out the idiots and being able to take constructive criticism on board.

I think the knack to Reddit is posting in the most appropriate subreddit. As @joshmorrow says, posting in r/startups may get you a lot of negative posts from disgruntled wantrepreneurs who will downvote anything. Like the people that see a new product in a shop and are angry because they had that idea two years ago (but didn't move on it).

If you post in a more serious design sub like r/userexperience
and someone takes issue with your design it may be good to ask them why and listen to them.

Anyone who has had any kind of design education knows: "It sucks" isn't actually criticism. Real criticism has to be specific and preferably bundled with a solution, i.e. "The padding around X needs to be decreased for it to display well on mobile."

There are also a lot of kids on Reddit who are very sure of opinions they have now which they will be embarrassed they ever had in 10 years; so it is really not worth letting it affect you.
It is also easy to start replying to people and going down a rabbit hole of argument as it slowly dawns on you that they don't understand your concept at all so have been wasting your time and emotions.
You have to 'pick your battles'. i.e. only engage with what is useful.

I am glad you have mentioned this topic though, Reddit can't be ignored, it is a huge potential source for our product marketing. IH feels like a supportive group of peers who can give perspective.

Don't worry about it, I was called a bunch of slurs and even told to kill myself (via typeform) when I posted a survey a few weeks ago. Felt like playing League of Legends all over again.

Just think for yourself, what kind of person would take time out of their day to write such things to a complete stranger?

I think your landing page is beautiful.

It's ok if they affect you mentally, that's hard to turn off. But never make any business decisions based off them!

99% of redditors don't even open the comments so they are HEAVILY skewed towards negatives. Same shit happens Everytime I post something. Now I don't even read the comments anymore.

A well designed site is a sales tool but not your value proposition.

Reddit also doesn't "remember". I launched lookup.design like 4 times on reddit and the first few times I got only hate / removed. Last one stayed at the front page and got me a ton off traffic.

If you got 340 signups in a couple of days, I would say your landing page works!

Make that 341 :) let the haters hate, fuel that fire, and know that they are busy talking trash on Reddit while you are busy building your future.

First of all congratulations.

It is hard to get some bad comments but they will always come. Does not matter what you are doing or how successful you are. If you do something there will be haters. What you need to have in mind is that your product is not for them. When you product reaches the audience that is not in your target there will be bad reviews. As Seth Godin says ignore your critics: https://seths.blog/2009/03/ignore-your-critics/

340 signups = not trash. Keep in mind that you were trying to be quick, scrappy, ans get out there to validate a concept, not present the most polished version to the world.

I remember watching an early episode of Top Chef and the contestants had to cook for a room full of people who tried out for but didn't make the show.

They were brutally critical. But maybe that's because they were reminded about what they hadn't accomplished.

Not sure what's wrong with your landing page, it seems alright to me, I can easily interpret what your project is all about and that's what should matter.

IGNORE them. As you know, Advice and commenting is always free. Focus on your product and just double down! Listen to Constructive feedback though.

340 signups are great.

For almost all product, there are more people who choose not to use them than the users. For example, the number of Tesla owners are much smaller than those who choose not to buy one so far (because of price, design, CEO, etc.)

While understanding problems are important, you would get more insights if you listen to those who opt to use your product.

That’s an awesome milestone! Don’t listen to the haters. Most of them do nothing but sit and watch as other people out there do actual work.

Quick question: how did you get around Reddit’s self promotion rules? I’m scared of sharing my early signup page there and getting banned.

Only valid results count. People opinion means nothing, because your TRUE RESULTS speaks louder then their opinion. You would fail, if NO ONE would signup. So your MVP is a very huge success !!!

Keep this Robert F. Kennedy quote in mind: "About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
I don't think this is context specific (for the curious, I've known this quote for a long time but I only just googled it to find its context: desegregation).

Have you made any changes to it? It looks awesome now!

Don't let the negativity get to you. Otherwise, think of it like this: becoming insecure because of what some randos say would be a huge insult to your competence.

Just let the value you have brought to your past clients speak for itself.

Bro just a small obersavation, If some one even help some one via directly paying cash to them then also 4 people spread hate. So chill and create product that you love. There is one saying in Hindi- "Char log ky kahege".

I've had a quick look at the landing page and to me it looks great, its funky and its responsive. Take no notice of these people there will always be hatters in the world to try and bring you down. You are doing a great job and congratulations on getting 340 signups as well.

Hey, it is great that you're writing this out here. I can totally feel you because I plan to write about my last 18 months and created a post here to ask for feedback about my approach, and the comments hit me hard as well. I ask myself "Am I doing the right thing?" "Will people like it?"

I guess that's what we gotta learn if we want to make things happen in today's open world. We gotta be tough and believe in what we do, and know that there are people who will love your work, and people who will criticize. And that's okay.

If everyone loves you, then you should be worried because that's all too fake.

Keep going. Make improvements :)

Congrats on 340 sign ups. That’s no small feat.

Haters are a sign that you’re doing something well 😉 Brush it off, and keep going!

Redditors are known for being toxic and mean, but remember that there are a lot of keyboard warriors in the world. Don’t let them dampen the pride in the work you’ve done.

You got this.

Great job Nero!

I don't know what those Redditers were thinking 😕

I think your site looks great. Even greater for the MVP stage. Continue your great work. Soon those saltly 🧂 users in the comments will regret saying those hurtful things 🤗

Don't listen to all negativity. Some comments have a little constructive criticism, but I know it can get demotivating u_u. Btw your landing is beautiful and responsive!

If you have haters and people trying to belittle your efforts to build something, it means that you have done something impactful and probably something they think they could have done "better" but probably don't have the courage to do themselves.

Take it as a guiding light that you are doing something that people actually want and find useful.

As the ancient saying goes... "Haters = Motivators" 😉

Keep going and keep on crushing your goals 💪

Reddit is so hit and miss, a ton of their communities don't allow any self promotion whatsoever, no matter how relevant your solution is. What was your post?

Great stuff on the sign ups! What are your plans now to convert?

Congrats on these signups ! Did you use any tips or learning resources before posting on Reddit ? :)

Nero, that's an impressive achievement! Congrats!

Would you mind sharing link to the reddit thread you posted?