What would help me is e.g.:
1. Split the landing page into two side by side gifs
2. lhs column showing a series of google searches & results
3. rhs column showing the same searches but with your results
4. Have a demo search box, above the fold, I can try without setting up social accounts. Its too much of a hurdle without knowing the value.
5. I'm not watching a 10 minute video without already understanding and being sold on an idea
6. I would consider dropping the security angle from the hero - it makes the already tricky to see value prop more unfocused.
Is there a niche where your results are particularly strong compared to Google e.g. politics, products, tech support etc.? It might make it easier to position yourself by pushing just that rather than as a head to head google competitor.Best of luck!
p.s. I really dislike the font used for the logotype - bad fit for the site and makes it feel amateurish.
About the font, I think my taste in fonts is pretty much opposite of everyone else's. I wanted to do something more "stylish", but I guess I'll switch to something more professional. If you happen to have a suggestion, or just general guidelines, I'd love to hear it.
I assume your "try after google" list is figurative, not a real list on the web?
Thanks again!
A few caveats about the site: 1) I've made the settings a little less private for the sake of this Show HN. I don't share your search history with anyone, but with the current defaults, you'll be downloading images directly from the sites in your search results and feeds, possibly over HTTP. When I finally have a 1.0, I plan on securing all downloads for subscribers. 2) Sorry about the captcha when you create an account. Almost always the captcha is impossible when you first load it, so you have to hit the blue refresh button. I couldn't find a good solution that didn't require loading a 3rd party script (Google noCaptcha seems to work beautifully, but I'm wary of including their script). For now I'm using a locally downloaded copy of the reCaptcha script. 3) I'm not wedded to the name, logo, or the theme. Feel free to criticize any aspect of the site, I can take it! 4) I'm specifically looking for feedback on how to make this open source, but still making this a sustainable business. I am thinking of AGPL, or possibly something that would prohibit commercial usage without a license.
Thank you for any input you have!
Since you've asked these questions, it's clear to me that I haven't done a good job explaining these things on my site. I'll be working on improving this. Thanks a lot for the feedback!