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Re: by threebutton on Thursday January 20, 2011 @09:23AM (#2123678)
I come to your site and I have no idea what it's for. Even if a friend in a band said, "hey, check this out," if I don't see something on the homepage that tells me I'm in the right place, I'm going to close the window. So in big letters say it's "Analytics for musicians" or whatever. Then I know this is the site my friend told me about.

I did wait, and got the message to watch a 9 minute video. You lost me. You might have 60 seconds to show me why this is the greatest site ever. Nine minutes is waaaay too long.

I highly recommend MicroISV's that Sell by Bob Walsh. http://47hats.com/ebooks/ $20 ebook that will tell you how to make a successful landing/homepage. Best $20 I ever spent.

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Re: by NicuCalcea on Thursday January 20, 2011 @10:18AM (#2123874)
There's no clue on your site and now you leave all this text here? I'm not going to read that or visit the site ever again.
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Re: by TimothyBurgess on Thursday January 20, 2011 @10:26AM (#2123901)
That's fine because people who do visit the site will know what it is beforehand. It isn't for you. I'm more interested in criticism on its functionality (the actual app) rather than comments on the purposely limited landing page and judging a book by its cover like most people here seem to be doing.
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Re: by freddot on Thursday January 20, 2011 @10:46AM (#2123983)
I actually have a band and this app could be for me this summer. But I didn't get it at all the first time. The only reason I looked at it twice was that I found it here on HN. Not all your potential customers are the typical music-branch-guy. Also, something to easier distinguish different widgets would really help! User defined color or something.

I really like the one-man-army way. Keep it up, you got some good stuff going on!

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Re: by teejae on Thursday January 20, 2011 @09:44AM (#2123747)
If you really want it to have no explanation normally, because the user has been there before, just set a cookie saying that it's been seen before/closed. If a user is coming back often, then they will close it once, and be done.
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