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by OJFord 1608 days ago
I'm young and had the same experience as GP - for me it's just too little said about too many different things, it's hard to tell what 'it' is (and I only realised on the second read through that that's partly because they are many things).

Imagine if Amazon had a landing page with headings like 'eShopping', 'Internet', and 'Cashierless Shopping' to describe what the company did. (And worse, then obscured them behind fun but not descriptive names.)

It's a nice page, a lot's gone into making it obviously, but it could be about just one project, each section that's currently a different one instead explaining a feature or aspect of it. Or as it is, the big headings should be the class of thing each project is, not its 'fun but not descriptive' name, IMO. (Underneath: 'FunName approaches blah differently by ...', sure, just not the big eye-catching heading when I'm just scrolling trying to see what's on offer.)
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bostonsre 1608 days ago
They are a company that writes several different tools for developers, not an e-commerce site for the general population. Which tool has a useless description that doesn't tell you what it does? If one tool is interesting to someone they can click it and they are presented with a great Readme that explains it in more detail. It takes like 30 seconds to parse the page and find out if they offer anything that is interesting to you.
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zepto 1607 days ago
You can’t tell if it’s interesting until after you have read the GitHub read me. That’s the problem.
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ncpa-cpl 1608 days ago
> Imagine if Amazon had a landing page with headings like 'eShopping', 'Internet', and 'Cashierless Shopping' to describe what the company did. (And worse, then obscured them behind fun but not descriptive names.)

Well, they do have Route 53, EC2, Elastic something on AWS.

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OJFord 1608 days ago
Yes, AWS is infamous for it, but at least in the closest I can think of to a single landing page (the 'service' drop down selector) they're grouped by 'compute' etc. And that's not really intended for describing each one, they each have a separate landing page.
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