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by logikblok 1884 days ago
Hey vfc1 great work. Couple of thoughts just on the landing page / proposal: 1 - It's an extensive landing page with a lot of scroll, I guess this might be because you're trying to talk about all the things you can do / will do which is extensive and great but I wonder if you can shrink the page to make the core points and drive to the call to action as a pose to scroll and depart.

2 - I suspect you'll have fairly long sales cycles right? It takes time for people to build their materials, gather resources, polish their words. I wonder if you can make them start with an initial step that builds ownership, e.g. upload a logo or something along that line that get's users along the way.

3 - It maybe apparent to users that you are new. Being new comes with advantages but people may feel the risk of you disappearing and or going bust. Is there a way you can communicate trust / long term support? Sometimes people do this with testimonials or perhaps some kind of of guarantee, maybe a lower priority one for consideration.

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Hello, thank you for the suggestions. About the page, it's for a product so I thought the best way was to show pictures of what the product looks, so that people know what it looks on the other side after signing in.

We were trying to engage people in scrolling through the story, so they understand what the product is. Do you know of a great example of a product page that does not require so much scrolling?

I guess we could condense everything to 3 or 4 cards max, many of them are probably not necessary. That is a great point.

2 - It will take months to build courses, but I didn't want people to have to pay upfront while they are building courses. Maybe the free plan is not such a great idea?

I think I will leave it for a while to build more users and get feedback, but quickly require a minimum amount. I suspect that there will be a lot of users that never publish anything, but this is just getting started.

3 - You're right, this is a new product but I'm not sure how to tackle that, there is a chicken and egg component to it.

I think we will have to get our first 100 users one at a time, build trust with them and then after that network effect would kick in. Do you have any ideas how to handle that?

Thank you for the feedback, I super appretiate it! Cheers