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by entrepy123 666 days ago
First, that is an admirable and important problem to be addressing, so kudos.

Feedback:

1- Show HN posts can be hit or miss traffic-wise, based on the time of day, if everyone was busy, etc. So, don't take small response to mean much. (Some great projects that have gone on to be strong got less initial Show HN feedback that yours.)

2- Personally, I think your landing page could benefit from a video near the top that shows how you use it. The high level concept is pretty clear, so I won't restate what you are doing here. But more visual communication (either detailed series of screenshots, or, more likely, a video) showing "how do I set this up and use the output of the product" might go a long way to letting people know what it is you have in mind to share with them. This would strengthen the "show" part of the Show HN, IMHO.

3- It's not really clear there's any proof that it works, or that the AI doesn't just do a poor job of summarizing/aggregating/etc. (which people are polarized about--some find it amazing, some find it quite poor). Does this tool achieve the stated goal? Even if we're not sure, how could the we find out for themselves? This part seems unclear, reading the page, before trying to Sign Up. So much so, that it seems kind of like a landing page to gauge interest before anything was built. Is that the case? It's honestly hard to tell. Again, to address this, show an end to end example as a 2 to 10 minute video.

4- If the first Show HN was a trial balloon, next time maybe write a Blog Post detailing more about your product, and submit that as an Article. Then keep doing that whenever there is major News to share. .02. Eventually one of your submissions might pop off.

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Thank you for your suggestion! Encouragement is really important to me. As you mentioned, we are indeed discussing adding a more intuitive introduction to our product to help the audience understand what it is.