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Interesting 🤔
Such good viewing. Great format. Great discussion. Great delivery.
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The bottomless website made me think it was a grocery delivery system that never runs out of an item so you can keep ordering without the sad out of stock notification from other grocery ordering sites. I don’t think I ever heard from a regular person to refer to their supply of stuff at home as stock. Maybe say “ never run out of stuff with automated reordering” or even give a good descriptive name to what your process is “smart scale?” The nature of the business also allows for some comedic relief opportunities which can actually make people relate or remember the time that they reached for something and it wasn’t there.
Great and a super insightful podcast. Loved all the deep diving all 4 of you went for. Gave some amazing perspectives. Just a couple of points, if I may. Companies building for local markets have the potential to go global as well. The only question is are we willing to bet on them while they work for the domestic market and test hypothesis? Second, AI is exciting yes and we are in this huge movement and moment of AI however the best founders also work in existing markets and boring problems and try to innovate an old model that is rugged and not working. May not look all shiny from the outside but definitely a lot to offer from the inside. Just 2 bits, thanks for reading my comment 😃
Very useful feedback, Zack and Aaron! Thank you. - Nate from Rollstack.
Great insights on building websites! Here's a quick list generated from the video script with some of the main learnings: 1. Capture attention fast: You only have a few seconds to make a great first impression on your website. If you fail to capture attention quickly, the quality of your website won't matter. 2. Clarity is key: Ensure your website's message is clear and easy to understand at first glance. Use simple language and focus on communicating the solution your service or product provides. 3. Balance visuals and information: Keep your website’s design clean and avoid overcrowding the space with too much text or too many visuals. Find a balance that guides the visitor's focus without overwhelming them. 4. Use animation wisely: Animation can draw attention and make your website memorable, but use it strategically to highlight important elements without distracting from your main message. 5. Reduce choices: Too many calls to action can create a paradox of choice, making visitors less likely to engage. Streamline your options to guide visitors towards a desired action. 6. Optimize for speed: Websites with heavy images or elements that take long to load may be deprioritized by search engines. Ensure your website loads quickly to keep both visitors and search engines happy. 7. Target your audience: Use language and visuals that resonate with your specific audience. Avoid jargon that may confuse visitors outside your target demographic. 8. Test and refine: Continuously test your website's design and copy to see what works best for engaging and converting your visitors.
When you say launch again and again I am a bit confused. I am currently working on an app ....so I need to remove it from the store if I want to launch again?
Great video!! Very useful advices for my project. Thank you Reid and YC! And I'm now even more happy that I applied for sYC24.
Another banger. What internal KPIs / data do find the most interesting and helpful to keep top of mind?
Michael never started a successful start up. He did social cam in Twitch while the other side of the company did the gaming side. He gets the credit because he was in the same company
As a Senior Copywriter/ACD, gotta say that all these sites are pretty terrible.
Great insights on website first impressions! To add to the discussion, remember that the unique value proposition (UVP) should be crystal clear within those first few seconds. A/B testing headlines can significantly optimize this and increase conversion rates.
YC version of Blackpink Jisoo
i know first priority should not be design at least for startups but it should be how effieciently and really you diffrentiate your self from others which is innovation!
Please don't ship: 1. An ugly product. 2. Something your users will have a hard time using. 3. The type of product that screams "Designed by an engineer" Thank you.
I'm a simple guy i see a new video on YC - i click
I suggest staying silent during the 7-second look. Hard to look at the website at all when someone is narrating what they're reading at the same time
Go to any apple product landing page, or tesla. Above the fold doesn’t have to tell you everything. It just has to get you to scroll. Ahhgg startup advice…
But they spend billions of dollars a year in advertising and branding so you already know what they do before you got there.
Love yc but what this video should be about: “Do we know the specific problem you solve for customer” after a 3 second glance
Summary of the entreprenurial experience that should be required watching before anyone is allowed to start a business
My first impression - your video backdrop looks fake 😅
I love your discussions very inspirational , less prescriptive 🎉
You don't need to take some space of the screen to display a miniplayer of you just to cover a portion of the design your are reviewing?
More sites should use hand drawn illustrations as their front page material. AI stuff and stock photos and illustrations are boring at best. Show me some simple and clean hand made art. That will impress anybody.
Great examples. Would love to hear a discussion about relative importance of things like taglines, copy, imagery, animation. It seemed that you both reacted favorably to minimal, yet descriptive examples. Kind of a goldilocks middle.
We’re launching a completely new website in 6 weeks with a stronger focus on Ava, our AI BDR - stay tuned… 🤠
At the risk of sounding too traditional, I think most of these websites need less animation and stronger branding.
What's your strategy for making a good first impression with your startup website?
90's style pop up about Geocities web hosting - to make them understand I'm in control of this experience, and they're just along for the ride.
Hand drawn hero image. Something that's clearly too good and original to be AI. It signals you made an effort. Photos don't work at all because they can just be stock. Stock drawings are as obviously boring as ai drawings.
Our strategy is having a crystal clear CTA. We've done many iterations to get to a point where the user doesn't have to think about what to do next.
Know your target audience and talk with them like you would. Clean, concentrated messaging + design + well executed developed site with a few animations. + build a good brand around the company before the client clicks/searches for your website.
creating a website which is more personally relatable to audience rather than just desigining in assumptions and thinking this components will look great on website
Next time do mobile review design as well Lots of times the design falls apart on mobile and, depending on the product, most people will visit from their phone
bro but very few people open websites on mobile most more than ~95% of the time people use their apps not websites
@@techsinite4922depends on the product as I said At the startup I work at now it’s more like 90% are mobile users 10% desktop Also according to Google it’s closer to 70% mobile worldwide
When you click on a KZread recommended video and... whoe, that's Aaron Epstein! 😀 What's up, my man!
Have a look at Servcy next time please : )
Are fancy graphics actually important? Do they actually drive more sales? Or is it more the copy/text on the page that drives sales?
It's about delivery
@@isakdahlstrom I wonder if there are any papers or A/B tests on this. I wouldn't be surprised if pages with less fancy graphics actually one just due to better accessibility, or less scrolling and hunting for what to click. Obviously it can't just be white background and blue links - but you know, something reasonable. I think in email they often found plain text converted better than HTML messages for a lot of things, but that's a totally different context.
i think fancy graphics are important but not a first priority you can have fancy graphics or not but what is important is as peter thiel said :- you create something so innovative that people are not talking about means your product should not be "BUZZ WORD" product that will drive sales!
ya as if dribble gives me an idea as to whatit means
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing your insights on different websites, it actually helps us understand what we can do better on our website!
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third! it's just 1 and 2 and 3
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first :)
I’m 17 and i love to create a big company. You know i love solving problems and make our lives better i love the process of solving problems. One day MAHAN BAKHTIARI will be somebody !👍
List the 4 web tools, 2 books 📚
Sir I won (scrach and win) lucky prize of Rs. 950000/- , is it fake or real
When was this talk show. I recollect Seth Godin spoke of finding and building your tribe (niche) about nearly 2 decades ago. Before this it was mass marketing. I am not sure if finding and building your tribe is still relevant in today’s marketing or the paradigm has shifted. I do understand target audience and having a target audience, I am referring to introducing products and setting your business and marketing activities based on finding a niche, if this is still relevant today. I wonder what would be next or what is already next.
bro 100xed "the great Steve Jobs"
Thank you.
22k views, goes to show how easy it is to find gold in plain sight
Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:24 - Intro 01:04 - Artisan AI 02:52 - Bottomless 04:44 - Using animation to draw attention and become more memorable 06:07 - Cloudthread 09:21 - Integrated Reasoning 12:27 - Kapacity 14:21 - Rollstack 15:18 - Design Rule #1: Don't Make Me Think 17:30 - Ampstem 19:12 - Bert Labs 19:57 - Why Google deprioritizes websites with heavy load? 20:38 - Outro
Why do people feel "bad" about a crypto crash? what about emotional IQ in the MIT? I took that success as an opportunity to get into the new wage, called fintech.
This is great until the App Store rejects your app submission!
How do I do if I want to review mine ??
The first pave description was better. Immediately describes what problem they're solving: one that plagues tech folks.