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Looking for feedback for my side project

Hi! I'm looking for feedback on my side project, The Daily Roundup, a personalised newsletter that sends you a summary of all the sources you check on a daily basis (e.g. news, weather, calendar...), saving you time...

Would love any feedback and feel free to sign up for free!

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    My honest opinion is I don't really understand how it differentiates from all other aggregators in the market. The landing page could better call out the key benefits and your value proposition, and perhaps that would make things a bit more clear.

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      +1
      Why is your SaaS better than what is already out there?
      I've been using https://cortadomail.com/ for years now (it's free & awesome), why should I switch?

      If you can't compete on price, you very likely need to compete on features. Figure out what people want and sell it to them.

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        Oh yeah, Cortado looks great. Definitely need to consider better how the Daily Roundup stands out!

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      Very helpful, thank you for the feedback. What are the other aggregators?

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        I guess something like your reddit homepage

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    I think it might be of interest to some people who'd rather outsource their daily research on topics they want to follow

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    Hi Charles, I am a regular user of Mailbrew which does a good job of what you are trying to do. Couple of feedbacks

    • First Feedback is to make more explicit what your product tries to do - whether its something your curate or let users curate their own.If own what sources you support.

    • Second suggestion is that one area where I don't see existing apps providing is a mobile app version of their product. That is instead of email, what if I have your app installed and get all my daily digest in the app - at least I would prefer that over email.

    • Another would be seeing if you can innovate on presentation. Maybe making it more visual or some more innovative form

    • More intelligence in content curation -> Like say mailbrew supports top links of Hacker News, but that is based on comments or likes which are not necessarily my liking, I might prefer something that can learn from my behaviour. Similary for twitter

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    I am in no way a pro tester or a good designer, however, here is my initial "critics" from a user's perspective.

    1. In the big blue area at the top, I expect to read your "Value Proposition", so as soon as I land on your page, I can infer what "dailyroundup.tech" is all about.

    2. Again, when I scroll down to "Our Mission" which, because I did miss the Value Proposition at the top, I should clearly get it here, but, unfortunately, I didn't. I just read "To help you save time.." but no mention for the "How"?

    3. If you re-scan the page, you will quickly notice how very repetitive the expression "Save time.."

    4. The page does have three instances of the same CTA button which might not be a good idea. Just one is enough, placed after where you discuss the value proposition.

    5. Not sure if this is by design, but clicking any of the CTA buttons took me outside the original domain, to tally.so

    I believe in constructive criticism and that's my contribution.

    Best of luck in your journey.

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      Super helpful feedback, thank you!

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    Feedback: Home page is completely underwhelming.

    Show don't tell.

    Show a pile of articles on one side, and a nice looking skimmable email on the other. You can make that in Canva in like 30 minutes.

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      Will add that, thanks! Am going to totally redo the landing page in a few days incorporating your feedback.

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    I think it needs to be a bit more clear who this is for, and the landing page needs to be more targeted towards that. Most people use social media/the news as their "time waster", so they're really not interested in saving time at all.

    I think if it was sold in a more targeted way, perhaps designers would love to get send the latest design trends/awards, or something like that.

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      Agreed, I will try to make it more targeted towards tech news

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    My honest opinion - in order to ensure your content aggregator site stands out you need to customize it.

    For instance, you can allow users to import whatever other RSS source ( for example blogs) and have it aggregated alongside the major news source. Preferably allow users to interact with the content - like, comment, share.

    Initially, it make sense to specialize on a particular topic. For instance, you can build a technology-themed aggregator site that pulls in tech stories from all over the spectrum or a sports-themed aggregator.

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      Will do, thanks for the advice!

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    You can use this template

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    Congrats Charles,
    Save 5+ minutes every single day. You can improve value prop.
    Your value prop is signal in noise.
    Behaviorally you can change perspective.
    for example, "get only the most important things in 5 minutes" like

    title: what is your product
    subtitle: why and how your product does this

    You can use this template

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