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commenting to say this was a beautiful, straight to the point landing page. We see lots of landing pages with sections of copy that just don't look great

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I have no real idea if this is good, because the landing page has only some images, even though it's supposed to be about video. Show me some video, then! There's a slider gallery showing a series of still images of an editing interface -- why not show it in action?

Likely there's something I'm missing, here.

?? There are a bunch of videos on the landing page

Huh. Apparently Brave was blocking whatever they use, but there was no clue that anything was missing... it just degraded to still images and called it a day.

Those videos or GIFs or whatever they are work fine in Chrome and Safari, so it turned out that I was missing something. :)

It looks like normal <video> tags that attempt to load webm, then mp4, then falls back on a still image. All assets are loaded from their own webserver too (also my PiHole didn't block anything.)

Perhaps you have autoplay blocked? They are set to autoplay by the looks of things.

I do indeed have autoplay blocked, but I would expect controls to appear if something could be played. Maybe the weirdest part of this personal revelation is that it hasn't happened more often (that I know of).

It is good, but it took me a few minutes to realize it was talking about two different products. (And I did literally lol at the comically-large "Get Started Today →" button.)

Most SaaS landing pages sell products that are boring and non-visual. It's hard to get excited about a CRM or an IDE or a Jira clone or CI/CD pipeline tool.

It's conspicuously lacking testimonials. I personally hate testimonials and never have understood their appeal. I don't care what some person I've likely never heard of has to say about this product. I'd rather see what it does.

Relatedly, I've never understood why some books have 4 pages of testimonials in the front. Once you get past 5 of these are you really more likely to buy the book?

There are testimonials on the landing page.

This is weird, because some high-end, expensive things that are great usually lack testimonials because their buyer demographics would never care about them anyway. However, it would be nice to have them for new ML services because you don't know how good it could possible be.

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