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Strongly recommend updating your website to lead with some variation of "This is an offline iPhone app to help you calibrate your turntable's speed, all you nee

Strongly recommend updating your website to lead with some variation of "This is an offline iPhone app to help you calibrate your turntable's speed, all you need to do is play your records and the app will show you the current RPM" — wayyyyyyy too many words and other nonsense before I could figure out this is what it did. Embed the demo video (the tweet you linked) too! Looks great and if I still used records I would try it out! Congratulations on the launch. EDIT: keep the rest of the writing if you'd like, I have no objection to it and I thought it was funny. But lead with what the app is and what it does!

gamegod 2y ago
Yeah, but he gets great time-on-site engagement numbers by doing that. Somebody give this guy a job in Silicon Valley!
berkes 2y ago
Maybe they already changed it, but there's a chapter "As easy as 1-2-3." I'd personally move that way up. I had to scroll across all sorts of fluff and effects. I was sold by this (edit: this chapter, not the fluff) Maybe I'd personally even research how to make the entire website just that. Where maybe step 0 is "install the app" :D The (promised) simplicity of the app doesn't show in the communication of the website at least.
joebergeron 2y ago
I thought the copy was fun and don't mind a good soapbox every once in a while, but yeah, wouldn't hurt to slip in a few words about what exactly the product does earlier on. I'll definitely be trying this out on my decks before my next set :)
- peter_l_downs 2y ago
  Updated my comment for clarification, agreed the extra copy is fun. Also hi joe :^)
gchamonlive 2y ago
> Let's be real, if this charade of a website was an actual startup, we'd probably wear t-shirts that say... It's intentional. The app is free. There is a statement about this whole corp mission mindset. This is the way it is. If people don't like it or push it away from the product, they are not the target audience. I think this is brilliant. I understood immediately what the app does and kudos for the courage in setting the website the way it is. Was also impressed with the aesthetic of the site. If only I had a turntable...
- peter_l_downs 2y ago
  This is a Show HN, so I replied with my feedback. The author explicitly invited this, too, by writing: > Would love to hear what you think about it!
  - gchamonlive 2y ago
    An this is hn, where you post comments and people reply. Doesn't change the fact that I think the original comment misses the purpose of the website. Doesn't matter the downvotes I'm taking, I stand by my comment and I think there are better ways to critique the work other than to bash on an obviously conscious aesthetic choice.
okatbest 2y ago
That is fair criticism, I expected for the website itself to be polarizing. At the end of the day because this is a tiny free app I made for fun, I am willing to throw some people off of the sake of the joke, and judging by a lot of the comments I have succeeded! Overall, my assumption is that by the time you make it to the website, you'll already know what the app does, and most people will link to the App Store directly (which is why the store listing is much clearer on what the app is/does). if not, my second assumption is that people will scroll right past that giant block of text and go to the last line which does explain what the app is in one sentence, because there isn't much more to say about it in my opinion. If I made money off of the app I'd have a widely different approach, but in this case all I get paid with is strangers' attention and it is _very_ funny to me to spend that attention on a useless 2AM irrelevant tirade.
- peter_l_downs 2y ago
  Fair enough, congratulations on your launch and I hope you see continued success!
- PascLeRasc 2y ago
  Don’t throw away the “this is off the record, player” line. That’s gold.
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gamegod 2y ago

Yeah, but he gets great time-on-site engagement numbers by doing that. Somebody give this guy a job in Silicon Valley!

berkes 2y ago

Maybe they already changed it, but there's a chapter "As easy as 1-2-3." I'd personally move that way up. I had to scroll across all sorts of fluff and effects. I was sold by this (edit: this chapter, not the fluff) Maybe I'd personally even research how to make the entire website just that. Where maybe step 0 is "install the app" :D The (promised) simplicity of the app doesn't show in the communication of the website at least.

joebergeron 2y ago

I thought the copy was fun and don't mind a good soapbox every once in a while, but yeah, wouldn't hurt to slip in a few words about what exactly the product does earlier on. I'll definitely be trying this out on my decks before my next set :)

peter_l_downs 2y ago
Updated my comment for clarification, agreed the extra copy is fun. Also hi joe :^)

gchamonlive 2y ago

> Let's be real, if this charade of a website was an actual startup, we'd probably wear t-shirts that say... It's intentional. The app is free. There is a statement about this whole corp mission mindset. This is the way it is. If people don't like it or push it away from the product, they are not the target audience. I think this is brilliant. I understood immediately what the app does and kudos for the courage in setting the website the way it is. Was also impressed with the aesthetic of the site. If only I had a turntable...

peter_l_downs 2y ago
This is a Show HN, so I replied with my feedback. The author explicitly invited this, too, by writing: > Would love to hear what you think about it!
- gchamonlive 2y ago
  An this is hn, where you post comments and people reply. Doesn't change the fact that I think the original comment misses the purpose of the website. Doesn't matter the downvotes I'm taking, I stand by my comment and I think there are better ways to critique the work other than to bash on an obviously conscious aesthetic choice.

okatbest 2y ago

That is fair criticism, I expected for the website itself to be polarizing. At the end of the day because this is a tiny free app I made for fun, I am willing to throw some people off of the sake of the joke, and judging by a lot of the comments I have succeeded! Overall, my assumption is that by the time you make it to the website, you'll already know what the app does, and most people will link to the App Store directly (which is why the store listing is much clearer on what the app is/does). if not, my second assumption is that people will scroll right past that giant block of text and go to the last line which does explain what the app is in one sentence, because there isn't much more to say about it in my opinion. If I made money off of the app I'd have a widely different approach, but in this case all I get paid with is strangers' attention and it is _very_ funny to me to spend that attention on a useless 2AM irrelevant tirade.

peter_l_downs 2y ago
Fair enough, congratulations on your launch and I hope you see continued success!
PascLeRasc 2y ago
Don’t throw away the “this is off the record, player” line. That’s gold.

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