You may remember your advice you gave us last time, and this how we’ve thought it about carefully
“It’s not yet clear why you [the founder, personally] care about helping people…”
Hey, it’s me, Sabian (the founder)!
Thanks for reminding me to add my personal reason to our website’s front page, and you can also find it at the bottom of this newsletter. it explains why I personally care deeply about solving connection, communication, and understanding in the world, and why I believe nothing is more important.
Onwards!
“… I think [the newsletter] is a great idea to attract more [of an audience], but I’m worried about the representation of full article[s being accessible] via the blog page”
We’ve thought about this, and based on what we understand about SEO and linking, we believe it’s a good idea to have our blog updates visible to everyone, because it also lets people who may not want to receive frequent updates to their inbox to still have access to learn about what we’re up to, on demand.
Thanks for letting us know. This is good advice to make sure we’re on the right path.
“I’d say it would be good to have a[n] image backdrop at the top”
We agree! We’ve added a happy and connection-filled group of friends who get along extremely well to our image backdrop, and it makes our website look much better. Thank you for suggesting it and for reminding us of important areas we might not always be thinking about!
“The ‘subscribe to enter’ gate is very off-putting and cumbersome”
This makes perfect sense, in fact, and we’ve adjusted our wording to be more authentic to what our current setup is.
We previously had “Enter Ugeddit” as a step on the way to creating an account, but your advice reminded us a newsletter is not necessarily the same thing as creating an account, and we’ve reworded to “Join Waitlist”.
Thank you for letting us know!
“I prefer to [receive Ugeddit’s feature] launching updates”
Yes, from a technical developer’s perspective, it makes sense that receiving direct, purely development-focused updates gives you the type of information that you like to see.
In the coming weeks, we’re thinking to implement a section near the bottom of our newsletter (and/or on a dedicated page on our website) which highlights our more technical development progress and obstacles that you and others can see.
We couldn’t fit every piece of helpful advice in this update, but there’s a lot more advice we’ve considered, and we appreciate your help for all of it, and for all the advice you’re happy to share as we move forward!
Onwards!