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I really dislike that after clicking `Start Listening Free` there is no way to get back to the home page.

https://www.flowful.app/ redirects to https://www.flowful.app/player after that.

I figured people wouldn't want to keep navigating the landing page after they had already seen it once. This way you can just head straight back into the app.

An incognito tab will let you see it again though.

Requiring people to use an incognito window to see the home page again (or get to the chose your style screen) isn't a good idea imo :)

I prefer to see how "deep" a product will let me go (without hitting a regwall) before reading about it. After I've tested out the gatekeeping, I go back to the homepage to learn more about the product.

But my personal use case aside -- if people want to see the homepage again for any reason, like contacting you, or linking to a friend -- you are blocking that ability.

You all made good points - I've removed the redirect. You should now be able to go back to the homepage.

I was modelling it after Notion's homepage, where you just want to go back to your workspace when you go to notion.so, not the landing page. But I'll put some more thought into how it can be done less cruedly.

Notion does a lot of stuff poorly, I'm not sure why their patterns are being replicated elsewhere, just because the company itself is successful?

Anyhow, what you can do, is to have the landing page under /home for example, so when a visitor lands at /, you decide if to send them to /home (not logged in) or /player (logged in). The brand logo in the top links to /home instead.

It's important to get back to your homepage that isn't the app: Especially once you add things like "about," "careers," "contact," ect.

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