Roast my MVP! Why / Why not would you use it?
https://debugg.me
I've been working on the MVP for a while (before I joined Makerlog) and while the initial reaction was all positive, I don't see people signing up. I need to know what's wrong
Loading it on mobile and first impressions - from the headline and subtitle I have no idea what it is.
Reading down a bit more I think I understand it but I'm not sure who your target audience is
Yeah the mobile version is something I've been struggling with. The target audience is anyone who wants to learn web/systems development
I think lack of content is a big problem. Even your own profile is not properly filled. You should post a bunch of problems targeting different technologies. I get that its a MVP but the most important feature "Review" is not there yet.
Yeah you're right. Content is definitely a problem I'm facing. And the review feature is almost done (which I think will make it more of a community)
What are you doing to track the number of visits on your site and how long they spend time on it ? I need to know some metrics like new visitor count, avg pageviews, avg time spent on site, etc. Maybe you just don't have enough people visiting your site
You can certainly tweak a lot of stuff to improve those metrics. But you should also focus on increasing the number of visitors. That's something i learnt from my previous launches. I gave up too early by burn out from constant tweaking to find the perfect design that everyone will care. While you should care about the design and continuously improve it for retension, just don't forget to focus on "marketing". Getting the word out
@imraazrally Yeah you're right. I've been focusing more on the features part now so that it is usable for most people that visit the site. I haven't set up any of the analytics stuff yet, do you know a service that offers a free basic tier?
I agree that the lack of content is a big problem.
The current examples also seem very contrived; I think people would much rather work on problems about apps versus problems about imaginary people building unspecified apps. The latter seems like an unnecessary layer of abstraction that makes the entire process dull and unexciting.
Additionally, some of the problem scopes seem to be so small that they're not even worth going through the process of cloning the repo for.
I don't care about Adam or his internship, and there's a complete lack of engagement from asking me to implement a "Hello World" route for him. However, I might care more about building an API for a unicorn battle simulator app (or whatever) by creating two or three basic routes that return some simple data.
I love the idea of learning through real-world problems instead of obscure algorithms though. Best of luck!
Yeah that makes a lot of sense! I think I now have a clear idea of what I need to do
Coding courses are a very competitive market. Your website looks good - but i clicked on the bigger button "explore problems" and the number of problems is a bit low it makes what you're offering seem a bit sparse - i think your sign up button should be bigger - don't give up I've had many successful websites over the years but some of them took a while to take off and i've learnt to optimize my pitch/lading pages (split a/b testing is a must) - but i think the major thing is you need more content under "explore problems"
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