I can almost 100% guarantee you that having an automatic slider killed a lot of upvotes for you. I'm not trying to be a dick, I've actually seen this over an over, and I experience it as a user - if I see a Show HN, I'm upvoting unless I have a reason not to. I despite automatic sliders, and yours is particularly egregious. Long term, it's a tiny mistake in what seems to be an otherwise interesting project, so I'd do a way with it immediately to avoid the distraction.
Not only that, but there's plenty of data showing that sliders are horrible for conversion. I guess could I pull better sources, but here is one with a bunch of links I found with a bit of light searching:
...which is strange since sliders are among the most popular premium plugins for WordPress. In fact, many of then earn six-figures on ThemeForest alone.
I completely agree. There is a paragraph of text that you can't even read because it moves to the next slide too quickly. Since I couldn't read it, I stopped trying and left the site.
In addition to removing the slider, it also could help to find a way to quickly sum up the benefits of the site using a very short sentence instead of a paragraph.
Upside really is, hey! Feedback! That's what HN is good for, not finding users!
Truly and honestly, if you don't have a product that is perfect for the HN crowd as a niche, it's still important to get on the front page if you can take feedback well. It's the best you'll ever get, it actually may make or break your business. If you don't get it here, get it elsewhere and fast.
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I can almost 100% guarantee you that having an automatic slider killed a lot of upvotes for you. I'm not trying to be a dick, I've actually seen this over an over, and I experience it as a user - if I see a Show HN, I'm upvoting unless I have a reason not to. I despite automatic sliders, and yours is particularly egregious. Long term, it's a tiny mistake in what seems to be an otherwise interesting project, so I'd do a way with it immediately to avoid the distraction.
I keep on swearing to myself I'm going to create a Chrome extension that kills all the sliders, slideshows, and welcome pop-up windows of the world.
Not only that, but there's plenty of data showing that sliders are horrible for conversion. I guess could I pull better sources, but here is one with a bunch of links I found with a bit of light searching:
http://conversionxl.com/dont-use-automatic-image-sliders-or-....
...which is strange since sliders are among the most popular premium plugins for WordPress. In fact, many of then earn six-figures on ThemeForest alone.
I completely agree. There is a paragraph of text that you can't even read because it moves to the next slide too quickly. Since I couldn't read it, I stopped trying and left the site.
In addition to removing the slider, it also could help to find a way to quickly sum up the benefits of the site using a very short sentence instead of a paragraph.
Fair point. I'm actually not a big fan of the automatic sliding either. I just didn't think to take it off. I'll definitely do that now.
Upside really is, hey! Feedback! That's what HN is good for, not finding users!
Truly and honestly, if you don't have a product that is perfect for the HN crowd as a niche, it's still important to get on the front page if you can take feedback well. It's the best you'll ever get, it actually may make or break your business. If you don't get it here, get it elsewhere and fast.
The upside is that people have to be quick to spot the typos, e.g. "miriad" ;).
Made that teeny bit worse by the following 'of'.