Comment by evancaine
15 hours ago
Congrats on the launch.
Now put a giant, 30 second video of the product being used, directly below "Design by hand.Code by agent."
No one is clicking Get Started or Buy Now until they know what the product is, and a 30 second video is 100x better than any amount of text.
I did have a video on for launch but removed it when I added CSS Studio itself to the page (check top right). Perhaps it can make a return though!
I'll be honest I didn't notice it sitting up there in the top right until I saw this message, it's in that area I ignore where people usually put social logos etc.
Anyway - question on the software itself, how would CSS changes feed through to the code? Inline CSS, utility classes if you're using a framework? Does it support using something like Vite for compiling?
I agree, I almost missed it and left the website.
Too bad because once I saw it and tried it out, that's when I thought the experience feels slick and polished.
I think you shoud consider either having an onboarding that highlights it or put a giant arrow on your landing page background, between the video and the bar, with a "Try it on this page"
All the technical decisions are yours. If you defined a padding (for instance) in a stylesheet, this is where updates will be applied. Likewise if it was on a style attr or elsewhere.
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I’m on mobile, I’d much rather see some visual demo, ideally video, explaining your product in 60 seconds or less than try to tap around in the live demo.
It's a great point, I added the video back
“Don’t show them the keys of the piano, play the moonlight sonata. “
The key to a good demo is not listing or even showing the features, it’s showing them what they can accomplish with it. You need to inspire your prospects.
The video better be visible on mobile. I read HN on phone.
It's a fair point - deployed
You need a video. Time is money
It's up!
bro listen to the guy above you. You need the lowest friction way to help users visualize what this is. By low friction I mean the exact way tik tok gets people to watch thousands of videos for hours. Only one click and zero brain power.
I wanted to buy this. I tried the demo, but then I hit a wall of no agent connected and gave up and came here looking for reviews on whether this is good or shit.
Yeah about an hour before you sent this I updated the homepage with a video.
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Seriously though. And this is a design company?
This comment was surprising to me.
I never considered that people want to watch a video in this day and age when they can try the real thing.
Perhaps I've fallen into that trap with the product [1] I'm building. I have a "Live Demo" button on the landing page and thought that would be enough? I'm going to reconsider...
1. https://dbpro.app
Perhaps it depends on the product, but interacting with demo almost certainly requires more effort than to watch someone else do a demo.
As for me, I’d like to watch a short clip (or at least see screenshots) before I try to demo anything.
TBH that part of your landing page exhibits some confusing UX. Perhaps it's just me but when I see a UI image with a play button I assume that clicking it is going to play a video, not redirect me to a login page.
I think there’s a big difference in commitment between the level of friction in signing up for a service and spending a couple of min on orienting myself and clicking play and watching the happy path go for 30s.
Very cool app. How do you feel it compares to something like TablePlus?
It’s a design tool. Why communicate it with text?
Trying > video > torture >> having to sign up to try.