Ask HN: Landing page of our upcomming product. What do you think?

[dsplatonov]

Hey HN, 

We are launching our product soon, this is already the 3rd version of our landing.

Link: https://staply.co

Could you please review it? Is everything clear? Or some parts need to be explained better?

[dceddia]

It looks like Staply solves a problem, but I don't know what that problem is. In your footer next to the copyright you have "We want to see a world where information is never lost or forgotten." -- is this the problem you're solving? Keeping track of information?

The screenshot hints at a sort of shared folder space for placing things for design review and comments.

I would suggest adding a section above "Take a new approach" that tells me the problem I already have before telling me how Staply fixes it.

Where you say "Private" and mention SSL, I think this is really bare-bones privacy. That's more like "Secure" to me. Privacy implies that you wouldn't sell my data, that you would store it encrypted on your servers, and that your servers are secure. It's more than just the transport layer.

[lgmspb]

Thank you for your suggestions. Especially about the privacy.

[ErikRogneby]

It looks pretty solid. two things:

1) on the pricing page it states: "It means that you will be only able to access all the messages, files and links sent earlier than one month ago. Basically you will be able to access the data sent latest 30 days ago." - This needs cleaning up.

"It means that you will be able to access all the messages, files and links sent in the last 30 days." would read better. As it is written it sounds like I can access history 2 months ago but not 5 days ago.

2) Lose the По-русски unless they are in a Russian speaking part of the world. I hate to say it, but you will lose customers in the US. There is a certain amount of xenophobia here, as well as the nationalistic "american exceptionalism", and other media fed concerns about Russian hackers stealing identities etc..

[lgmspb]

Thank you. We had hard time trying to explain it. "last 30 days" is so simple, thank you one more time!

[stevoo]

1 ) Perhaps this sounds better. Simple group folders for all instead Simple group folders for everyone

2 ) I agree with ErikRogneby. Lost the Russian from there. It doesn't fit there nicely. Perhaps add flags to the bottom instead of other languages.

3 ) The top should not be hidden and only visible when going to the top. hide it when scrolling down and show it when scroll it up. Or simply show it always.

I still haven't figured out exactly what you are trying to solve.

But i do like the page. It is nice and clean.

[lgmspb]

Thank you for such a nicely structured and helpful comment.

[ericglyman]

There's a typo in your "Take a new approach" panel. The URL in the image says techcrunch.com/stapy-files-for-ipo. I think you want it to say techcrunch.com/staply-files-for-ipo.

I agree with the other comments suggesting that it is not 100% clear why someone should sign up (from the landing page alone, at least). I think that a panel focusing on some of the use cases (that you've nicely identified on this HN thread) might make your service clearer, and help motivate more users to sign up.

Best of luck.

[lgmspb]

I must say you are really attentive :) Thank you very much. We are definitely going to include one more section with use cases, thanks to feedback in this thread.

[Norm--]

I'm not crazy about the main photo. It doesn't tell your story.

And curious why you need to have the mixpanel badge at the bottom right? What does it do for you?

[dangrossman]

> And curious why you need to have the mixpanel badge at the bottom right? What does it do for you?

If you add the MixPanel badge to your site, you can track more events per month without upgrading to a paid plan.

https://mixpanel.com/free/

[lgmspb]

Thank you, we wanted to make it feel more personal and it actually increased our conversion to beta signup quite a bit.

[aerovistae]

"We'll send you an invitation to this address"

That's not grammatically correct. Write "We'll send an invitation to this address" instead.

[dsplatonov]

Thanks, we'll fix it.

[deepak-iiitb]

I agree that the usecase is not coming up properly. Additionally, I would prefer a "constant" value proposition rather than for so many stakeholders such as students, freelancers etc. If the usecase is generic, would prefer a generic statement.

[orr94]

Is that screenshot the site itself? At first I thought I was seeing some chat app, so Staply must be some sort of browser plugin to connect it all together.

Basically, it looks like Staply is kind of a chat room app with file sharing as part of it. Or not? I was kind of confused.

[lgmspb]

Basically we are building a very open platform where you can invite anyone, for example one of use cases would be if you are organizing an event with lots of speakers and you need to collect their presentations and answer all their question regarding the timetable etc. Kind of like a shared folder+small Q&A, where all data is seemlessly organized so that you would know for sure which version of the presentation is the latest one for example.

[lgmspb]

Clickable link: https://staply.co

[nyddle]

Seems like Facebook share on signup is broken.

Looks good. Is it like Slack on top of google apps?

И клево, что есть русская версия!

[lgmspb]

Thanks! It is more like a dropbox shared folder with a chat built in :)

[smeyer]

Your copy could use some proof-reading:

>Forget about looking for a file or a link, in Staply the are always ar your fingertips.

[lgmspb]

Thank you very much, we were really excited to launch an updated version. May be we did it a bit too early :)

[raymondduke]

She's looking the wrong way.

Turn the photo around so she looks at the opt in.

[itsrhettbutler]

I like your landing! Perhaps show a few more features and examples. Clever product.