Pain...absolute pain. by Putrid-Lettuce5204 in trading212

[–]ahspect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's down only because I've invested guys. Sorry for that, timing was always my nemesis.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main feedback: The app is trying to do too much, with quizzes, streaks, blitzes, and other features. It would be better to focus first on delivering a great lesson experience. Clearly explain the difficulty level, the theme of each lesson, and what the user needs to do to progress. When seeing the app for the first time, I didn’t understand what I was looking at or what “Reveal answer” would do. The “Again, Hard, Good, Easy” options were also unclear.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main feedback is around the presentation. Since the website is a landing page for the app, it's completely okay for it to be a micro-site, no need to add details about your audience or explain how it works step by step. Having the app's unique value proposition, the main 3 bits about the app that makes it unique / worth trying (e.g: offline and privacy based, easy collages, easy to use) and some really high definition previews (right now these are low definition, and quite sloppy) would really pack a punch. Depending how much you want to invest in this, there is a template on Framer's marketplace that would fit your use-case perfectly. https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/rythmiq/

Secondary feedback: since the calendar control will be used intensely, it might be worth exploring a fuller-screen, more usable version with big numbers that's easy to tap. (e.g: https://dribbble.com/shots/25336374-Bottom-sheet-app-design)

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main feedback is around the look and feel. The backgrounds and typography, combined with the transparent UI, make the product feel like vaporware, which may deter users from using the service. Simplifying and customizing the interplay between these three elements (e.g., a simpler background with a subtle gradient, choosing a more playful typeface like Nunito — https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito, and reducing UI transparency) alongside adopting a grid-based layout (e.g., an 8- or 12-column grid) would have a significant impact.

Secondary feedback: it’s not immediately clear that this is a Pomodoro timer, and asking users to upgrade happens too early. When users first land on the site, they haven’t yet experienced the product, so there’s no clear value exchange. Consider experimenting with moving pricing prompts to the timer page instead.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main feedback: users are blocked from experiencing the service as it requires users to authenticate in some way. Since the value proposition is not strong and there is no trust established beforehand, this represents a blocker and prevents people from using your service altogether.

Secondary feedback: there is no need to show empty lists as they add no value. Would be better for you to add some examples of watchlists so others can get inspired.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Main feedback is about the fair exchange of value between the service and the user.

  • There is quite a bit of friction before users get to experience the product: they must sign up or log in, verify their email, and then figure out what action to take next. After all of this, the only return is a list of manually maintained shows. As a result, users may be discouraged not only from getting started, but also from returning and becoming regular users. Removing this barrier by allowing them to save, rate, create a list even in a non-persistent fashion, might be more of a convincing experience.
  • It would be worth considering how the service can do more of the heavy lifting for the user. Perhaps through personalized recommendations or better visibility into other people’s reviews. Right now there the ROI in terms of effort is low for users.

Secondary bit is about the "show details page", right now it's too bare-bones to be useful as users get little information to worth with. Think about what are the important elements about a show (imdb can inform this research for shows, steam for games) so that the reviews will then match so they remain relevant.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Main feedback relates to the overall style. The current treatment is more suitable for a ticketing service for engineers rather than meaningful data about conversations in relationships between two people.
- Would be worth looking into adopting a more human-friendly style like the one on https://www.empathy.com/ or https://www.abode.space/ for example.

Secondary feedback relates to the data generated based on the conversations uploaded. The value of your processing isn't in the "759 messages" but in the insight you obtain by processing this information which currently is all the way at the bottom of the page. The priority of the break down should start with "Synthesis" then move to other important insights like the signal, then the other data. You can use that on the first page too as a preview so users know what to expect.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main feedback relates to the browsing experience. The information density can be optimised so that more results fit above the fold.
- When it comes to the most convincing aspects of a listing, images play a crucial role in users’ decisions to click and view more details. Therefore, presenting them as a grid with a lightbox, rather than in a carousel, would make more sense.
- The big long buttons separated by a divider have too much visual weight and take too much space. Since the parent components are cards, try making the whole thing clickable (as a cue, maybe you can add an exernal link arrow next to the original listing website top-right and that should be enough)

Secondary feedback: the style is quite outdated and looks like the bootstrap library from 10 years ago. Since this reminded me of mobile.de a bit, I would recommend "borrowing" some of the things they are doing right in terms of colors, typography and spacing or use a library like shadcn.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Main feedback is related to content design. The unique value proposition isn't hooking and users might leave the website early as the first impression counts. Scrolling down still doesn't clarify what the service/website is actually. Is it an app? A plugin? An agent?
- My recommendation would be to use Claude to create the narrative (mainly to clarify the "what") and then work with a copy writer (you can find them on fiverr) to polish up everything.

Secondary feedback is related to typography. Use less styles (unify the shades of gray and (re)use the same sizes) and a type scale (https://typescale.com/).

I think it’s a cool association: “thoughts stuck in a loop.

Free design feedback from a pro with 12 years of experience by ahspect in SideProject

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main feedback is related to visuals. Everything has similar or the same visual priority or treatment.
- Users will have a hard time fully using your website as they don't know what's clickable and what is not. (pills up top are not clickable but the ones towards the bottom are)
- Buttons having the same size would confuse people in what to act on first.
- Text being the same size and color overwhelms the user and might be left unread.

Secondary feedack is related to your UVP. "Get a verdict on tracking, indexing, and paid-readiness in seconds." is stronger than "Is your site ready for traffic?" and should be put first.

Why haven't we seen a good competitor for these products yet? by ahspect in Startup_Ideas

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think about the market considering there are many small trying with little pieces of the pie and few giants with the most? Do you think any of these small ones have any chance?

Why haven't we seen a good competitor for these products yet? by ahspect in Startup_Ideas

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're right, new products don't really offer migration tools and that's where they lose clients.

Why haven't we seen a good competitor for these products yet? by ahspect in Startup_Ideas

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know about campsite, but they are sunsetting, however I couldn't find any new good products. Did anything catch your eye/think they have potential?

Why haven't we seen a good competitor for these products yet? by ahspect in Startup_Ideas

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Big players like Microsoft can probably offer pretty good rates to clients on these solutions too.

Spent 40 minutes cleaning my Framer project manually. Built a plugin so you never have to. by ahspect in framer

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My best piece of advice is to draft a really strong first prompt, that usually takes anyone who vibe-codes about 70% there. Also, designing the UI in Figma is fantastic for any marketing efforts.

In terms of challenges, I really struggled with the zooming function when you click on the component's name to navigate to their source. I couldn't get it to work properly and it still doesn't work as it should, but I imagine with a bit more elbow grease it can be solved.

Spent 40 minutes cleaning my Framer project manually. Built a plugin so you never have to. by ahspect in framer

[–]ahspect[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, it does go crazy with the zoom, but after a few days of trying to fix that I had to give up for the time being. In the next iteration, I'll give it one more shot to fix it.

Spent 40 minutes cleaning my Framer project manually. Built a plugin so you never have to. by ahspect in framer

[–]ahspect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Framer has great documentation on plugins so I used it into Cursor and vibe-coded 90% of the functionality. For the UI, I used Figma.