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Re:Ask HN: Feedback on our landing page? by latch on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @04:20AM (#2652233)
Unless you are targeting a very narrow audience, I gotta believe the UTF cloud character is a huge mistake. In fact, I'm not even sure I'd use the word "cloud" for, what I suspect, is your audience. My mom won't understand "cloud" (let alone a picture of something weird)...but she'll understand "online". Of course, if you are targeting VCs...

I'm no designer, but something seems wrong with the typography, Logo aside, I see 3 setences with 3 different fonts. I find the last 2 hard to read. "Your photos are your memories" is too dark against the background and "we're not yet live" is small and messed up (I'll check tonight in a real OS).

As for what I think it could be? Flickr.

Re:Ask HN: Feedback on our landing page? by DanielStraight on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @08:34AM (#2652703)
On my computer, that character is just a little dot basically... I thought it was a bug at first.
Re:Ask HN: Feedback on our landing page? by latch on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @09:51AM (#2652928)
it looks totally different at home. 100% looks more like a cloud. 100% still think that's silly.