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by WhitneyLand 883 days ago
I don’t want to be negative but you asked for feedback, so I’ll give you a few impressions including the superficial and quite subjective fwiw:

1. The hyperbolic claims are going to be off-putting to some. You’ve “solved” ML search? 50x better than Google scholar on a metric no one’s been benchmarking against? Consider your audience and what they would find credible.

2. The UX needs work. To give one aesthetic example, in the results there are large, brightly colored, red and green circles that are used inconsistently, and they clash the palette. This stuff can affect how sticky your service is.

3. Don’t restrict signup by email domain. This is nuts. Never add friction to gaining customer relationships. If you’re capacity constrained limit the trial. If you’re trying to segment the market there are better ways.

4. The name “Undermind”, is not working to my ear. It’s worth changing. At least find a product person whose opinion you respect and ask their take.

5. I think a lot of people here would be willing to give you useful technical feedback on the architecture and approach if more information were shared about how the service works, but I didn’t notice that was available.

2 comments

This is very effective criticism.

If OP wants to grow their project, those 4 has to be the first to target.

undermine: "lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of, especially gradually or insidiously"

hm.