Appster
Dev tools
landing page template
SHOW HN2017
79points
34comments
#561of 2,242 in 2017
Top 26%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
5 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Design: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Looks beautiful and light
From 3 comments
The app is nice for the promotional site. It is light and beautiful.
tolgahanuzun on HNPlease be respectful of other people's work. The same criticism could have been framed in a much less toxic manner. The author has clearly put a lot of work into this, and theres…
rayalez on HNBeautiful work!
rendall on HN
Useful for building landing pages
From 2 comments
Awesome work, thanks for sharing! Bookmarked it, should come in handy when I'm building my next landing page =)
rayalez on HNPlease be respectful of other people's work. The same criticism could have been framed in a much less toxic manner. The author has clearly put a lot of work into this, and theres…
rayalez on HN
Objections
Page is heavy and slow to load
From 1 comment
Total requests: 30 Size: 1.149,02 KB Transferred Size: 539,24 KB Time: 6,53 seconds That's on a wired 50 megabit connection, I don't want to know the load time on mobile. Good…
ijustdontcare on HN
Mobile layout spacing problems
From 2 comments
There are a few places that don't look great if you look at the demo on mobile. There's too much padding on the bottom of the header nav, the app store logos don't have any…
onion2k on HNYou may want to add default margins to some elements. On mobiles the buttons, images etc. are overlapping.
ankyth27 on HN
Placeholder text confuses visitors
From 2 comments
Just a quick grammar tip: "A beautiful screen capturing app you can trust on" should say "you can trust" or "you can rely on." For that matter, I'd probably refer to it as a…
geekamongus on HNThis is exactly why you need to use Lorem Ipsum otherwise visitors spend their time focusing on the text (I was trying to work out if it was a theme or an app you were pushing)
cube00 on HN
Site went down repeatedly
From 2 comments
I can't load the webpage; is it down for anyone else? Google cache returns 404.
adtac on HNUnfortunately this is down for me again
yaseer on HN
Requests
Upgrade to Bootstrap 4 final release
From 2 comments
Great and useful work. Bootstrap 4 is still in beta, do you plan to continue support, taking into a count possible api changes?
viach on HNWhy use alpha when the beta of Bootstrap 4 is out?
Cronkan on HN
Use Lorem Ipsum instead of dummy text
From 1 comment
This is exactly why you need to use Lorem Ipsum otherwise visitors spend their time focusing on the text (I was trying to work out if it was a theme or an app you were pushing)
cube00 on HN
Reduce page size and request count
From 1 comment
Since the actual size is tiny, tried using webpack to combine some of the resources. Saved ~40% of that size with minification and dead code removal, and saving that many…
codefined on HN
Questions
Why alpha Bootstrap instead of beta
From 1 comment
Why use alpha when the beta of Bootstrap 4 is out?
Cronkan on HN
What theme is it built on
From 1 comment
What theme is wiredots built on?
danvoell on HN