After trying for a while to scroll through your landing page despite the extremely annoying custom scroll thing, I have no idea what your thing actually does.
I know you have offices in France and the U.S., that you sell something involving the storage of objects, and that there is a "storage revolution" going on.
When I click "learn more", I get instructions for installing VirtualBox and Vagrant...
Even if I click further and read your PDF, the introductory paragraph tells me that you are using "the groundbreaking concept of 'Conscience'" which I have no idea what it is.
After reading a bit more, I still don't understand what your thing actually does.
It sounds kind of cool from all the cool words and stuff, but I'm never going to install it or recommend it because I can't get a concrete and tangible idea of what it is.
My suggestion: on the first page, you should have a terse description of the steps a user or company would go through and what they would gain from it. Something like... and I'm just making this up:
1. You're storing lots of objects but your hard drives are overflowing and breaking all the time.
2. You install our product, which is a server that runs on Linux computers.
3. You configure it to use a variety of storage engines, for example plugging in your S3 credentials and some other things.
4. Now you can use a REST API to store content-addressed objects, and the product takes care of datacenter distribution, backups, and stuff.
5. Benefits cascade upon you like you could never imagine, for reasons X, Y, and Z.
I wonder if they just bungled the translation from French to English? The marketing blurbs under "Easy", "Scalable", and "Powerful" are pretty hard to read, almost like they were output from one of those online translation systems.
That seems to be what they are going for but without a better site I'm not really that interested. If you looking through their PDF they talk about scaling from 3 VMs to a larger cluster.
Products like these need extremely good documentation to be worth it.
As people have pointed out, this is similar to S3, GCS, etc. and apparently they've been running it for a bit:
> The first production ready version was built in 2008 and the first massive production of a large scale email system started the year after. Since then, the solution has been used to store 10+ Petabytes, 10+ billions of objects, at 20 Gbps of bandwidth at the peak hour, with low-latency SLAs enforced 24/7.
If you take out the scroll thing, this crowd will probably be much happier immediately!
Other than that, I just looked at Stripe.com to see how they do their landing page, and they make it pretty clear from the outset what their service is. They're doing good so they might be a good model.
I know these website UX critiques can come off as annoying, but I hope it's actionable and that you can get the word out about your product more effectively.
1/ Pure software for any mixed hardware optimized by dynamic data placement
2/ No rebalance and no perf impact on production when scaling
3/ Grid For Apps: distribute & run any apps on same nodes
Its not dahta or dayta that is the issue. Its the slow irreconcilable way the speaker voices the two syllables with an emphasis on TUH. Its a soft word, not Dat Tuh with a hard tuh. Literally sounds mentally challenged and unless the team behind this product is one person who has a throne, I can't think of a reason why no one would voice opposition to the anti social pronunciation. Laughable error.
After trying for a while to scroll through your landing page despite the extremely annoying custom scroll thing, I have no idea what your thing actually does.
I know you have offices in France and the U.S., that you sell something involving the storage of objects, and that there is a "storage revolution" going on.
When I click "learn more", I get instructions for installing VirtualBox and Vagrant...
Even if I click further and read your PDF, the introductory paragraph tells me that you are using "the groundbreaking concept of 'Conscience'" which I have no idea what it is.
After reading a bit more, I still don't understand what your thing actually does.
It sounds kind of cool from all the cool words and stuff, but I'm never going to install it or recommend it because I can't get a concrete and tangible idea of what it is.
My suggestion: on the first page, you should have a terse description of the steps a user or company would go through and what they would gain from it. Something like... and I'm just making this up:
1. You're storing lots of objects but your hard drives are overflowing and breaking all the time.
2. You install our product, which is a server that runs on Linux computers.
3. You configure it to use a variety of storage engines, for example plugging in your S3 credentials and some other things.
4. Now you can use a REST API to store content-addressed objects, and the product takes care of datacenter distribution, backups, and stuff.
5. Benefits cascade upon you like you could never imagine, for reasons X, Y, and Z.