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by ericmsimons 701 days ago
Thanks for this feedback- we’ll definitely make it easier to land on the webcontainer.new demo from the homepage. I think our main concern initially was that without docs context it might be too confusing what’s going on, but I think we could find ways to ease that in that experience itself
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My eyes glazed over the docs context and scrolled until there was a bright blue button to click. If that hadn't been there I probably would have just bounced off of the page for being too wordy in a time of infinite distraction.

Personally, I'd be direct and add something to the effect of

> The page that you see on the right is being rendered to your browser by an instance of vite, running on your laptop, npm and all, being served directly to your browser. This is what sets us apart from other web dev environments.

to the readme.md on webcontainers.new and to the copy directing people to click that blue button. As a sibling comment says, "looks like every other modern code playground", which is what it looks like, but it isn't. You and your team have put in a lot of hard work to differentiate on that specific thing.

Your target market is developers, which raises the bar for technical understanding. Respect your customers' intelligence and just give it to them straight.

imo. you didn't ask for suggestions but this is the Internet :)