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by icebraining 5448 days ago
Personally, I'd leave the about page as is; but I'd definitively change the main page to impersonal discourse.

"tagBeep has some unique and very useful features but there is a lot of room for improvements and I’m working on them." Would become (something like, I'm not a native speaker): "tagBeep has some unique and very useful features but there is a lot of room for improvements which are being actively developed"

" The app has some unique monitoring features, but it's far from where I want it to be." Would become something similar to: "The app has some unique monitoring features, but it's far from finished"

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When I've made that page the idea was to present myself as a person, as one software developer working on a nice product.

A lot of people suggested a middle path... that is what I'm thinking to do now but I will give it more time.

The poster was suggesting that you use 'impersonal discourse' on other parts of your site but can leave the about page as 'personal'

The rest of site should not be about you. It should be about the product. Otherwise it comes across like a hobby project (and I'm guessing you don't want that).