Thank you so much. This is my first time sharing my product on Hacker News, and every bit of attention like this makes me really happy.
1. You're right. I actually considered it, but I thought a demo would make the landing page quite heavy. Your comment gave me the idea of making a separate page where you can try a demo. Great suggestion, thank you.
2. Thanks. This was actually intentional. As a first target, I'd like Bloffy to appeal to developers who care a lot about SEO. Bloffy is also a bit different from typical blog products built to be easy for everyone. The goal is for it to grow, over time, into a blog customized to you. The first target is developers, but going further, SEO professionals who can handle HTML, CSS, and basic JS could be a target too.
3. You're right. I'll make the differences clearer on the landing page, and I'm also planning to write a separate post about how Bloffy differs from other blogging platforms.
4. I think you mean the demo video on the landing page? The pace does feel a bit fast. I was trying to keep it under a minute. I'll take that into account. Thanks!
gg, not bad.
> but I thought a demo would make the landing page quite heavy
Just pack a slick, slim demo into it's own section right under the themes, which I'd put above the "Write freely in the editor." section.
And have a ToC of your landing page visibly present ... I scrolled once and was annoyed by the speed of the vid and how useless the "Write freely ..." section felt in the context built by the landing page thus far ...
> I was trying to keep it under a minute
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Keep the vid slightly under 90 seconds and don't lead with that flow diagram... A good Anime intro or movie trailer you see once and sign up for the run.
I almost tried it but because it said __sign up__ I didn't.
I had a bit of a weird time getting what Bloffy's thing was ...
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