Five second test: can you tell what my site does?
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Someone told me this week they could not understand my project from the page. So instead of guessing I want to test it properly.
Open the link, count five seconds, close the tab. Then tell me two things. What does it do, and who is it for.
"No idea" is a real answer and honestly it is the one I need most. Please do not be polite about it.
It is free, there is nothing to sign up for, I am not pitching you anything. I just want to know if the page explains itself or not.
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Did it properly. Five seconds, then closed the tab, so this is a first impression rather than a considered read.
What it does came through. The headline says type any AI launch and find out if it is real or hype, and the line under it says evidence rather than marketing copy. I could have repeated that back to you accurately.
Who it is for did not come through at all. Nothing on the page tells me whether this is aimed at people deciding what to buy, engineers deciding what to build on, investors, or someone who just reads AI news and wants a sanity check. I had to guess, and I guessed wrong twice before I scrolled.
Which makes me want to question the diagnosis you have been handed. Four people saying they cannot tell what it does is worth taking seriously, but on my read the problem is not the what. It is that the page never names a reader, so nobody can place themselves in it, and that comes out of people's mouths as I do not get what it does. Those need different fixes.
One smaller thing. The row of model names under the headline reads as a list of what you have covered, not as buttons I can press. I did not register them as the input until much later. If they are your best demonstration of the product, they are currently doing the job of a footer.
Separately, and this may matter more than any of the above. This thread is sitting at 2 views with no replies, which is the exact pattern I ran into. Check your notifications for a rejection notice. Rejected threads still load normally at their URL and look entirely published, they just never enter the feed. If that is what happened here, rewriting the post will not fix it, and it is worth knowing before you conclude that nobody cared.