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Re:The saddest “just ship it” story (2020) by aidos on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:53PM (#31359406)
Sorry, didn’t want to poo poo the whole thing. Don’t get down about it! This is an opportunity to rework the site so it works for you.

As sibling comment says, use a website builder instead. Something like shopify will have everything you need (though I’m not massively familiar with it myself).

Another suggestion I have is to focus on the target audience. I skimmed the doc you linked to about uploading images (couldn’t find any extra docs on the site at a glance btw) and it felt geek heavy in terminology.

The shots of the device look nice, but there’s an app for managing it? Is it easy to use? If I buy this device would my wife ever use it or is it too complicated?

Are you actually making these devices yourself? If I were hand making these my starting point would be to sell to friends so I could iterate on the whole thing. There are a lot of people on here talking about ads and marketing but honestly, hustle is how you get started.

Re:The saddest “just ship it” story (2020) by konschubert on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:00PM (#31359486)
Nono, I am very grateful for your feedback! If my website is bad it means that it can be improved and then my conversions will go app and that's great news!

I don't define myself by my design skills so you didn't hurt any feelings :D

I am a bit wary of using Shopify for landing pages because I'm worried it will make it feel even more like a dropshipping enterprise...

But maybe that's the smaller problem if at least my website looks good then!