| ▲ | Show HN: Elo ranking for landing pages(landingleaderboard.com) | |||||||
| 17 points by Intragalactic 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ||||||||
| ▲ | augusteo an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
The criticism about voter relevance is fair, but I wonder if this is still useful for a different purpose: training your own eye for landing page design. When I've tried to improve at visual design, the hardest part was developing taste. Comparing options side-by-side and articulating why one is better is exactly how you build that skill. The aggregate rankings matter less than the act of judging. Have you considered adding a "why did you choose this one?" prompt to collect qualitative reasoning alongside the votes? | ||||||||
| ▲ | shoo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Interesting idea, but it seems likely that the data this collects may not be very useful as a way to estimate the effectiveness of landing pages. If I don't belong to one of the markets that the landing page is trying to sell products or services to, I shouldn't be able to vote -- if I vote, I'm just polluting the dataset of what their actual potential customers think of it. If the two landing pages being compared aren't targeting the same market of potential customers [+], it's unclear what comparing them achieves. It's unclear if voting on a landing page in this kind of artificial setting is predictive of something more material like how often a potential customer proceeds to sign up for a demo, or pay for something, or call sales. [+] or given a lot of these are AI landing pages, I guess they're targeting investors. | ||||||||
| ▲ | tiffanyh an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I like the concept but am suspicious when I see a disproportionate amount of top ranked landed page sites, have ad banner stating they are YC funded. | ||||||||
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