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by oliv__ 4278 days ago
Sorry to say but everything about this website feels cheap and generic to me: from the font to the use of huge font-awesome icons, to the texture in the background; to me this page looks like it's from 2012.

"Sound too good to be true? I wrote and designed this very landing page you're reading in 1 day."

Yeah, I can tell. It's impossible to create a design that will stand on its own in a day, if only for the fact that you need to have looked at it for so much longer than 24h (which is probably more like 10h) to have any kind of perspective on what you've produced. And, frankly, I feel like somebody who's been doing this for 10 years should know this.

To me, this whole thing just reads as an easy cheap hack for this guy to make more money.
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philbarr 4278 days ago
I see what you mean - although given my poor landing page design skills pretty much anything looks good to me.

Can you give an example of a decent landing page?

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ryanSrich 4278 days ago
Check out land-book (http://land-book.com/).

I honestly think products like OP's (original OP...) degrade design as a profession. It takes much more time than a day and much more than $1k to properly design a landing page. You not only need to understand the brand (or help build it in some cases) but the language and tone of the business (even in larger companies that have a tone already you still spend a considerable amount of time on this). You need to bring the essence of that product into an easily digestible 'frame'.

The design of OP's site tells me that they think design is something that can be done hastily and with very little information.

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donutdan4114 4278 days ago
I love this landing page: https://www.myvessyl.com Also: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro But those were not made in a day :)
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spitfire 4278 days ago
The entire bootstrapped startup ecosystem is starting to feel very used car salesman/infomercial to me.

Everyone talks about how successful their startup is selling books on how to be successful in startups to hopeful startup founders....

Another ebook? really? and +$200 for the video supplements.

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