That alpha-blend or whatever happens as you scroll is incredibly obnoxious. I nearly clicked away and ignored this because it's so awful.
The grammar of the page suggests an asocial author with limited social skills, and perhaps a misunderstanding of what the objective of a landing page is for.
"""
We only earn real customer money, at any cost.
Free or $10/year, later adjusted with you to follow our expenses.
"""
It boggles my mind that you'd consider writing this, in this manner, to try and attract interest. It sounds clunky, complicated, awkward, mechanical; there's really not enough adjectives to capture this page's problems.
Then you have a picture of code (you've automatically disqualified yourself far before now, but an image of code instead of <code> blocks will always lose my interest, personally)
To summarize, this is horrendous, and you can do better.
The first three seconds of this webpage are losing 99% of your prospects. Not that your page even explains what your product is anyways, but for clarity's sake:
Famous image in the background, that's distracting, is this an art project?
"TAKING THEM SOON" What does that mean? It sounds vaguely threatening, or maybe the author is just illiterate.
Scrolling down beyond that results in a flashbang exploding before my face, so I'd leave.
All these responses are pretty good, and there's some valuable lessons in there. I thought of a simpler idea than most others have.
Honestly, coroutines.
Coroutines challenged everything that I had learned about programming at the time with something different, this made my program more powerful than just one line running after the other. It was mind-blowing to me as a young man, and I remember the impact setting me towards a journey of learning.
I'm anticipating a lot of downvotes, but I couldn't think of a less healthy online platform except for maybe Reddit or Facebook.
Really, the best way to use HN is to keep a list of the interesting blogs that get posted here. I check in every now and then and add the blogs to my RSS list and away I go.
Year after year, HN gets worse and worse. It's constant complaining and whining, the discussions are INCREDIBLY trivial and just vapor-y. Show HN, for example. In Show HN, someone is presenting the community something they designed, created, implemented, polished, there's weeks or months or years of effort involved. Most of the time, the comments of these posts are "Oh, well the text-margin is 1px off" or some stupid detail that nobody using the product actually cares about, and then the rest are complaining about those comments, like what I'm guilty of doing right now.
I don't really know what could be done to fix it. Finally, let me add this: If you want the most pleasant HN experience, click the LINK, and stay far away from the comments.
Realizing your dream into reality will entail hundreds if not thousands of hours of suffering, in some form or another. It will cost you, there ain't nothing coming to just drop your dream lifestyle into your lap. Even if you have skin in the game, you will lose battles and you'll be forced to remember the war, you'll be tested boundlessly, endlessly.
That being said, whatever you are fixated on, that may be a good place to discover what direction to work in. If you dream of writing a groundbreaking video game, I can promise you that you'll spend a lot of time coding it all, but you must also consider your rent, your car note, your family, etc.
It ain't simple, but you CAN dream your dream. And if you feel, you SHOULD.
The grammar of the page suggests an asocial author with limited social skills, and perhaps a misunderstanding of what the objective of a landing page is for.
""" We only earn real customer money, at any cost. Free or $10/year, later adjusted with you to follow our expenses. """
It boggles my mind that you'd consider writing this, in this manner, to try and attract interest. It sounds clunky, complicated, awkward, mechanical; there's really not enough adjectives to capture this page's problems.
Then you have a picture of code (you've automatically disqualified yourself far before now, but an image of code instead of <code> blocks will always lose my interest, personally)
To summarize, this is horrendous, and you can do better.
The first three seconds of this webpage are losing 99% of your prospects. Not that your page even explains what your product is anyways, but for clarity's sake:
Famous image in the background, that's distracting, is this an art project?
"TAKING THEM SOON" What does that mean? It sounds vaguely threatening, or maybe the author is just illiterate.
Scrolling down beyond that results in a flashbang exploding before my face, so I'd leave.
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