The landing page copy nightmare that's driving me insane
Hey makers! I need to vent and hopefully get some advice from people who've been through this. I'm working on our landing page copy and honestly it's become my personal hell. You know that moment when you think you've nailed the perfect headline, so you show it to 10 users and get 10 completely different interpretations? User 1: "Oh so it's like Slack for teams" User 2: "Wait, this is a project...
Your "MVP" isn't minimal - it's just broken
Launched our "MVP" with 15 features because "users might need them." Result? Nobody used ANY of them properly. Turns out, MVP doesn't mean "slightly worse version of your dream product." It means: What's the SMALLEST thing that proves people will pay for this? Most "MVPs" I see: ❌ 12 different user types and workflows ❌ Advanced settings nobody asked for ❌ "Nice to have" features from day one ❌...
Why Getting Quality Feedback is So Hard (and How We're Trying to Solve It)
After launching our app, we realized something: getting honest, actionable feedback is incredibly difficult. The problems we encountered: Friends are too nice to be brutally honest Casual users rarely take time to give detailed feedback Analytics tell you WHAT is happening, but not WHY Traditional surveys have terrible response rates What we learned: Valuable feedback comes when people feel...
🧨 When Firebase, GCP & AWS go down at once, it’s a reminder of how fragile the internet really is
Today’s outages (Firebase, GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, etc.) weren’t just isolated blips, they exposed how deeply interdependent our tools and infra have become. When core providers stumble, the ripple effect crushes hundreds of products instantly. No deploys, no logins, no analytics, no tests — just waiting. Curious how you all think about this: - Are you actively building for redundancy or just...