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Good idea to offer a demo on homepage. Communicates more effectively than any explanation of the features.
However, before one clicks "try demo", the image of the app is a bit confusing. It's not immediately clear what I'm looking at here. I get it's a screenshot of the app - but maybe a screenshot of a more clear moment in the UI. I see a bunch of confetti, some flags, a big button...a bit confusing.
One thing that could contribute to building more trust is an explanation for the methodology of how it works. Don't rely on just the demo to show this off! You could spend a little bit of space later on the site to mention how your app is based on some kind of academic linguistic research or something along those lines. It says "created by experts" - make me believe it in supporting copy below.
Finally, how does this work? It might seem self-evident to you that for example maybe the app uses AI to listen and critique pronunciation. But it's important to explain how it works. You call out competitor apps for being too complex but that kind of relies on knowing how those work to explain how yours works. Better to just explain yourself!
Good luck.
You should be able to use keyboard and touch events to navigate through. Another words, on mobile you should be able to swipe forward or back. On desktop, you should be able to use your keyboard keys to go navigate the quotes.
Other than that, the design appears clean and readable to me.
However, I think you could massage it a little bit. First, the quote doesn't feel very "quotey" (made up word just now). You could play with the font weight to produce more emphasis on the quote. After all, it's meant to be the primary focus of this page, right? Don't be afraid to make it heavier and stand out more.
Also the images are a bit strange, agree with @baldai. I think it could be worth it to use line drawn illustrations instead. That way, again, the focus goes back to the quotation itself.
Hope this helps!
You nailed it, @fiiva. All those suggestions are actually on my roadmap. 😊 It‘s just I lack advanced dev skills, and I‘m waiting on outside dev help.
I would even go further to make the font size dynamic depending on the quote lengths. This current font size is picked as average.
As for the images… it‘s just something to put a cherry on top. I might update them in future, to pick something more relevant, or a different style as you suggest. For now, I focus on building content and making it SEO friendly because finding 1000+ consistent illustrations is too time-consuming at this stage. But I plan to pay more attention in the future; perhaps even help illustrators get featured somehow.
Try out Simpleanalytics.io - made by @adriaanvanrossum
I built one of these - a sort of widget that inherited page styles. I would highly recommend not using an iframe and using a javascript application mounted into a given div container.
Why?
The advantages are great. Firstly, you have the ability to use the page styles if you so choose. You can namespace the css you want to remain no matter what and leave things like fonts, text colours, a tag colours, etc to inherit from the page. Then the widget/calculator/chatbox looks way more like it's part of the actual page by adapting to the styles of the page which is the intention.
I used SVG graphics for icons and other simple images because it's possible to also change their colours dynamically, letting me easily adapt to a dark page and a light page with no issues.
Being embedded on the page also allows your embeddor "host site" to interact with your embed a bit. You could expose methods to trigger things in your widget with just simple javascript.
Let me know if you want more details!
I feel like this can be compared to buttondown.com, correct?
I think your landing page does very little to tell me why I should use your platform. You said in reply to @vdgvince that you are focusing on doing a few things well. But certainly that's not the settings page where you can see the DNS records you need to enter on your domain?
You're showing me some of the table stakes features (DKIM stuff, CSV import, etc) and doing very little to explain why yours are better than Buttondown or anyone else.
So sell me, the marketer/developer fatigued with a million email platforms, on your tool. How do you solve my problem? That's the point of this landing page after all. I expect you have DNS authentication records. I expect you have CSV import of contacts. I go to the changelog page on your site, and there's a bunch of more marketable features there - like the dashboard with stats, segments, fields, tags, etc. I don't get the impression on your homepage that you have these features and most people will simply not look there for them. They will assume you don't have them. Which sells your tool short.
Hey Nikita, thanks for your feedback :)
As I said in the reply to Vincent, I have some work to do on the landing page. It's more than 2 weeks since the original post, so there is a bunch of stuff that I've shipped (as you can see on the changelog page) that hasn’t been updated on the landing page.
I'm working on it, one step at a time.
Cheers!