Roast and Get Roasted Thread (post your projects)

I think that it would be better if the home page and what-is-career-move change places. I had some difficulty understanding whether this is curated blog posts site for career move stories or actual service that directly puts you in contact with people that walked the walk. I guess the design itself tricked me to think something like that.

Solid idea - I could see this being fun since everyone is stuck at home. I also like the simplicity of the landing page - easy to use and all the info is presented well.

One question I have is who are the chefs and why are they qualified to teach me how to cook? I feel like providing some background on the chef swill make it feel more personal.

Have to say I like the directness of the site, clean and very unambiguous. Not something I'd be into right now but cool niche.

Interesting. Basically Bashboard, but for logs. Curious to see if you get any success. Looks like your twitter at least has a decent following :)

It wasn't really clear to me what logging means. I had to interpret the code snippets after I clicked "Start to Log Stuff".
I would definitely kill the ambiguity by telling what is the purpose of the service in a glance. Also, what would be useful is documentation and use cases. I would like to know what problem is going to solve for me if I sign up.

It's nice that I can see how easy the code is, but I'd change the landing page a bit. It wasn't clear to me initially it's about application logs. It could've been a journal app etc.

Also there's no further info without signup like pricing, privacy policy, documentation etc?

Tempted to sign up, I'd prefer a bit more documentation and info on limits prices etc before I do. Great idea though

I love it how clear the site puts it of what the service does. Good job! And great idea as well! :)

Dope idea. Would be useful to include some more info as to who can apply. Is it only available in the US etc

This is a super cool idea. Do you have to be a registered company in order to apply? How many hours of mentorship would the apprentices typically need? Is there a way for the apprentice to continue beyond the initial 3 months?

wow this is a real great idea! I was an apprentice myself at one point so is great to have a platform providing opportunity to connect. The page is clear and concise, I do have some feedback.

1. The hero image has some blue and red circles and lines that conflicts with the image. I think the image of the person looking at the screen would look better without those colors in it.
2. Not sure if the image of the apprentice in the What can apprentices do for you? section adds any meaning. IMO if conflicts with the information you are trying to provide there and it removes focus from the information in the section. I would say removing the image would be better or a different layout.

Interesting idea. I would try it in the future, but currently I don't have a capacity for mentoring.

Looks good and I signed up! Can't say I'm interested in a referral scheme though.

Regarding the apprentices as a full stack dev I would be looking for people more on the marketing and content side.

I love it and I want to try the app soon. Still didn't upgrade to iOS 13 as I told you before.

About the page:

• Red circles look a bit pixelated not anti aliased in Firefox for me
• I like the feature section design of https://emailmeapp.net/ more, it's easier to scan
• I'd reduce the testimonials or do it horizontally like https://simpleanalytics.com/

But this is all minor.

Don't have much to say. The page is simple and beautiful. I signed up for beta!

Don't know if you already have it but I would love to have push notifications. Mail is already too busy. I rather not have an average of 10 mails everyday from IH when I already have the website open almost all the time.

Difficult to roast. Looks very good

I'd have a rethink of your copy:
Browse IH faster than mobile web - fair enough but
Filter posts, milestones and groups - can you not do this on IH anyway? doesn't seem like a feature

Can you get IH notifications? - would be a good point to add

Have a look at the copy on this https://www.reddit.com/mobile/download?ref=producthunt

Also the FAQ link doesn't seem to go anywhere at the moment
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It's a cool idea and it's nice I can immediately try it. But the total lack of headers and explanation is a bit strange. Maybe add a minimum bit of copy to explain what it is? The tags are hard to read contrast wise.

Hey so design wise you have some issues with white font on light grey backgrounds (viewing on Android). Just had a look on desktop and looks totally fine.

I'm not getting the value proposition of vooiced it seems like a collection of unrelated audio clips maybe I'm missing something

I want to try it without making an account.

Man this is an awesome idea, is this free(mium)? I'd agree and say I'd probably want to try the app at least without having to create an account. Maybe integrate with google login or something if you think they are absolutely necessary.

I would like to search for a hex color and generate things with it.

Do you know https://coolors.co/ ?

Nice work, lovely design, some interesting tools in there I've bookmarked for later

Good taste. Congrats. Love it and will use it.

My two cents would be only at the resource page: logos inside cards look too big on a laptop resolution.

I don't totally understand what it actually is. It's a bit too abstract for me.

I think I have a grasp on your concept and it seems very cool, so take this with a pinch of salt as I could be off the mark if I have the concept wrong.

Your tagline is quite wordy:
Welcome to Open Source Capital
A Community built around Financial Sovereignty and Taking Projects to the Next Level

Try:
A Financial Sovereignty Community to take Your Project to the next level

But tbh, I still don't know what a Financial Sovereignty Community is.

Maybe try Kickstarter meets Venture Capital or something more tangible.

Also, i like how high quality the video is in the background but you've had to darken it a lot for contrast and it makes the whole page feel very dark.

Design is clean, professional corporate looking but lacking distinction or anything memorable. I think the background videos are lacking specificity (I get this is early stages)

I'm not sure what I'd be signing up to or what the benefits are, the message to me is vague, could do a better job of outlining the 'how' and not just the 'what'.

Hi Hollywood, I like the aesthetic of the landing page. I would put more focus on what value you will bring to your target market. Be more assertive in saying this is going to deliver XYZ. Testimonials could be very powerful.
Cool idea. Keep it up!

Nice design. I like the overall appearance. What I would rethink our selling point/presentation. Because her is what happened to me after I clicked your link:

1. looked at the images on the left
2. read the two caption lines
3. Started thinking "what is this thing doing? What should I organize? Why not fancy?"
4. The temptation to leave came. Which I did not because I came from this post :-)
5. In the 4th sentence, I read the "tasks" word and then I got it, it is a task manager; todo list thing
6. and then I tried to figure out what makes your task manager special then the others hundreds I look at, say nice, and move on. But hey, I am not a task manager guy, so I am not in your audience :-) But they might have a similar thought-process.

Love the design. Did you do it yourself / use a framework?

This is awesome - it was easy to see the results of a comparison of two banks after no more than two clicks. Great pattern and I think you nailed keeping user interaction dialed in.

Like the overall design and the statement is good. Except for the "optimized"-part it was totally clear what the tool does.

The 3 images below distracted me too much from the benefits text.

The feature list looks ok. But what I really would like to see is the chrome extension in action so I can see for myself how it can save me time. Show me the thing.

It's beautiful. I have one remark about the thumbnails of the meditations. They aren't descriptive enough IMO, I had to click each meditation to find out what is different from the other. Also, I'd work a bit on the design. The thumbnails seem like videos that are going to start playing then I press "Play". Instead, I go into details about the meditation.

I think the design fits the gaming purpose. But what I did not get is if it's about digital versions of board games. Is it like any other online game? Or is there still a physical board involved as in board games with friends?

Hey Chromabill, great spot. Will add that to the list of the many things I need to change!

Main note about your site - app renders look super slick + love the colourfulness of the site. The copy says :

A brand new way to organise your bills:
Why would anyone want that? Surely what people actually want it to keep on top of their bills - why not sell it through the pain point

Also : A first-ever colour-coded system to dynamically manage your bills. - although I get that its a great and probably very useful feature - why would i care. Sell through pain point again? - "No other app lets colour codes your bills to organise them" or something like that

Looks very clean, but one thing missing is that your companies branding is lost and instead your landing page really takes on Slack's colors and branding. I see your logo in the Slack screenshot, I think that could use some work (looks pretty dated IMO).

Really nice animations and overall style

Hey zwambelis
Great feedback! Thank you. definitely will work on all those points!!

Releaserecord:

I understand what it does, but what pain point does it address - like why would I need to keep track of releases and how would it help me do that - like would i keep having to check back onto the site for it to tell me what's been updated ?

aesthetic points:

• the site looks very 90's - very functional - but not beautiful
• the RR at the top of the page - feels very unnecessary - esp when it says release record above it
• on the ubuntu box - buntu
  • 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) - this text sticks out of the box

Love the immediate call to action with the "claim" input.

I didn't find the screenshot to be particularly informative or helpful. I did get the fact that there is chat and video functionality, but not much else.

Looks great overall though, very nice work!

Your service looks pretty nice! It takes a little bit to understand what it is, though.
Good luck!

You're just 15 and you remind me how I was 5 years ago. Haha! I learned to code when I was around 12 or 13. I'm turning 20 next week. Your website looks nice. A lot of challenges, lessons, and victories ahead. I'm sure you'll be a great person someday. 😃👋

Cool idea.

The initial impression is a bit sad, dark, melancholic, because of this dark photo. Is it only to make the white text readable?

Otherwise I would consider it, but changing my apartment is not a priority for me right now.

Hey Kaioelfke, thanks for looking!. Yeah deffo taken on board and need to change the examples, as we don't have enough users to fill them at the moment. The font was a bit of a gamble, I'm gonna have a play around with a few different ones and see what I can come up with.

Meetfriends:
Like the concept however, the name makes it a little confusing.
Overall the site is very clean, clearly directing you towards getting the app

It would be nice if it showed you how it reminds you - does it give a notification? maybe show a gif of one popping up on a phone?
Also it took me till the bottom of the page to find out its free. Consider putting this at the top - maybe instead of "Start keeping in touch"

Like it. It is clear and easy to see if there is something for me.

What is your niche? How is it different from other job boards?

Are you looking for a job is very general.

It's not clear how this differentiates from the many other remote job boards / newsletters.

I don't understand what differentiates this from other blogging solutions. And then it's hard for me to understand why I should try or if this is relevant / more useful for me than other solutions.

How are you going to convince the customers to download the Wise Notifications app?

Your hero/jumbotron whitespace seems off. Not enough padding between top navbar and your H1 text and too much padding below it.

Love the font though and the rest of the design looks very smart.

Looks like a lot of effort and ambition in terms of how much content you want to write.

Do you know https://bento.io/ ? It's a great resource of free content to learn CS things.

Love the mission but the design looks like a programmer did it

Thanks @JamieO @jkchu @kaioelfke. I changed the copy yesterday to try some new things out and noticed a drop in signups today as well, so thanks for pointing this out as well! Will test new copy.

I do like the clean look of it all, but that made the use of the robot emoji feel very out of place. Also the coloring of words in the indie hackers quote felt random to me and didn't add much value for me.

And as others have said, what your product actually does was not very evident from the get go.

It's a bit hard to understand how the thing actually works. I got it only from the last section. Before that I was a bit skeptical.

Is it just me or does this paragraph not flow nicely? Wouldn't be so critical but you ARE selling copywriting...

"As enthusiastic as you are you want to tell all about your product and startup to show your customer how awesome you are. Only talking about which features your startup offer, is like going on a date while the other person is bragging to you for 2 hours."

Maybe rethink the name. I actually thought is has to do somwthing with meditation as zen usually suggests.

Very nice. Clear and great design. I sign up now.

I actually love everything about this, very difficult to roast :) Great idea, love the unique design. Awesome

Hey Expressus, thanks for looking. Yeah you are right, there are missing user profiles that I need to get filled in. I think ill remove some of the categories for now as its confusing everyone. Thanks again!

I'm not really getting the difference to a calendar immediately.

I also don't have so many meetings to I have pain points there so probably I am not in the target group.

Maybe add a filter for cities as well? I think it makes sense for tech people, who want to work in Japan.

Looks very cool. I was watching the illustration on the first hero section for a while, waiting for it to show me the "popped" / finished diagram but it never came. Maybe show off what your product can create not just how it creates them

Good that I can have a live demo.

How does it differentiate from https://www.diagrams.net/ ?

Maybe it's more simple.

You have an unecessary horizontal scroll bar visible all the time.

Hey, gordon. Thanks for looking! Yeah, your right, there are supposed to be they experts profiles under there, only problem is we don't have enough to fill all the categories. Think I need to do some work to get rid of the categories.

I had a similar idea to easily create an accountability group to mentor you with goals, but I am wondering if it is actually beneficial after seeing this ted talk.

But there must be some benefits with group learning.

I never heard "surefire" before.

I like your landing page otherwise.

I firat didn't get what the tool does until I watched the video. Then it seems to require many steps till i can send a newaletter with those records. And now I am wondering if I had tp do that for each newsletter, aka one sheet = one newaletter?

I don't get how the product automatically enters the data in the Google Sheet like in the examples. Or is it just the sending?

For the sending from Google sheets etc to Mailchimp I could also use Zapier, but maybe this is too complicated to setup for some.

Super nice illustrations.

I am a carrd user. I am intrigued enough to try and see what I can do and what the limitations are. From the demo it seems I can only create designs with these white cards? I don't want to create an account for a demo.

While I wouldn't personally sign up to this as a dev, you have some top notch design skills and I've bookmarked this as design inspiration.

There's some bug with the way you posted the link. It redirects me to the IH website.

But the website looks nice and it's clear. Another cool thing would be a listing of no code jobs.

Fantastic footage you got there

That's a good idea, but your site loads super slow. And then my MacBook Pro becomes loud and slow. Your site somehow kills my CPU.

I guess the difficult thing is to motivate enough customers to download this app. But if you really want to stay updated about a business it might work. The page is clear to understand.

Nice, I don't use React but I used something like that for Rails and I think it makes sense. The landing page looks good to me.

Yes some examples would be good. But the page is easy to understand.

There's a typo "intersting" - it should be interesting.

I need to know the benefits of why I should sign up. What are the questions like? Is it a game or something else? Basically, answer why should I give you my email in 1 sentence.

Looks good. Just a few changes and it will be perfect:

1. Do not use the word "Dead" in Dead simple reminders. It is not a good marketing word. Make it friendly instead.

2. Simplify the description from "Other reminder apps" as that gives people the idea they need to look at other apps first. Just state the problem and how you solve it. EXAMPLE: "Finally, a one-click reminder"

3. Instead of Features first, give the benefits with features underneath.
   EXAMPLE: Snooze Reminders when you're busy.

4. Tell me your story about who you are and why you choose to solve this problem. Let me know the person or team behind the app.

Nice design, cool colors. Will it work with keyboard only? How wil you handle the rope on mac?

I didn't immediately understand that I control the time with how much I pull.

The design looks nice with the color waves.

Looks cool but difficult to understand what it is. Maybe say in the header that its a podcast?

I really like the idea and concept. If anything, it's not very clear what to expect from rewind - I had to bounce around for awhile before understanding that it's blog posts. To the left you are calling it "episodes" (notify me) and the logo is a tape so I think I really expected audio, but all I could find was text. Maybe it could be good to be a bit more clear about this to attract people who prefer text format :)

Hey I saw you changed the intensive site. It looks better to me now.

"Six Weeks. No Excuses. Unparalleled Results" There's no dot in the end.

I like the rewind content, but this image makes me think it's a podcast.

I would add a bit more visual separation between sections.

I'd highlight more the benefit that now all customers can send videos instead of just those, who know how to make a screen recording.

jeez that looks super slick. Great work! possibly un-roastable

Great idea and clean design. Good Job!

The things I noticed that need to be updated are:

1. You need a background color or some other visual element for "Subject of your request" as it looks at a form element for the page.

2. Maybe use a video of the screen working instead of still pictures for the "Facing problems..." at the top image. Something to show how easy it is to use while projecting the value.

3. If you go to support, the back to site button does not work.

Opened then page for the first time, on tablet, and before i could even read a line this damn drift bot popup opened.

Text alignment ia off on mobile, some centred some left. And centered cosr turns me off.

Also, i see code at the top but the thing tells me it is a chrome extension. That confuses me. Didn't want to look further.

Doesn't resize for me very well, the header gets larger before the hamburger menu pops up. Overall seems very impressive. If i were you id put the picture at the bottom of your page actually showing the product higher up ahead of the illustrations

I was confused by the illustrations. They don't seem to be adding to the copy.

Nice website. The only issues are:

1. Do not say for everyone. Pick a niche market: (Sales, Data Science, etc...) Based on who you decide, say "Web Scraping for the Sales Pro" or "Rapid Web Scraping for Data Scientist"

2. Showing code on the first page does not say, "easy to use". Instead, show an animated gif or video of one click and pulling information.

3. Based on the audience, you may not want to say "Headless Chrome". Unless it is developers (maybe Data Scientist), say it in a less jargon way.

4. Start with the Chrome Extension for the quick way to get started.

I think there is nothing to roast here and Cool name by the way scrapingdog.com

It's a nice idea and I get it, but I think it would be less abstract with actual thumbnails. E.g. put an obviously bad one, an okay one and a good one as image to make it easier to understand.

I think it could definitely benefit from a large hero section showing some thumbnails. There's quite a lot of text and it doesn't really draw me in. Also the existing user button, feels like unnecessary clutter

It seems odd that the landing page itself does not show any thumbnails.

I would be careful about using orange. People tend to have a more negative reaction to it. I have it in my prodcut too and am looking to change it.

First impression when it loads is that there are wayyy too many things asking for my attention which makes it hard to understand what it is. Spacing things out would help with that.

Also the graphics are too similar so they blend together. I would include an image of the product or a screenshot from a video that show's it being used.

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Can't sign up.

There is a literal empty space below the fold that's like 500 pixels long. It feels like something should load there after scrolling but nothing happens.

I thought nothing about what your product offers until I scrolled down and up a few times, then I took a look at the menu bar. That's when it hit me.

Maybe make the Video chat lessons from experts bigger, and the animated stuff smaller?

Also, blocking right-click menu and copy-paste functionality? Why? That'll only slow down people if they want to copy something out of your website. Simply blocking Javascript will get past your attempts of blocking.

I'm not by any means a landing page expert but I'll give it a shot:

• None of the categories showed up under Select a category to explore until I scrolled almost past that section of the page.
• When I clicked on Business nothing happened (were results supposed to show up underneath that section?
• IMO your Become an expert page is way more attractive and compelling than your Find an expert page

The alignment of your landing page is off when viewed on a widescreen monitor.
I think the underlying idea is good, but I wasn't able to find any experts on the website?

It looks fine but the width is TOO SMALL. I would recommend increasing width by at least 50% - 70%