alt Hacker NewsI dont know what Enso is. This page doesn't tell it in first few paragraphs. I wasn't to homepage of this website. That also mentions Enso but without a link. There is a link to roadmap but that doesn't answer this question either. Please describe what Enso is in few lines in a easily discoverable place.
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This is an interesting one.
On one hand it’s hard to disagree with the statement “it should be clear what your product does in a single glance”. In fact there’s a whole meta that’s been developed around this, with well established common wisdom on how to structure your landing page to quickly frame value to prospective users, call them to action, etc.
On the other hand it’s kind of fun to stumble upon something and feel like you missed the beginning of the conversation, and to figure things out piece by piece based on context.
I was also confused when loading this website but it led me to trying the app and it was kind of fun.
Sometimes the most optimized, clearest path isn’t necessarily the preferable one.
Same. I even came to comments to see if anyone has actually written what this is. And, unfortunately, still little. Most people just comment "great stuff". After a few minutes I'm still to learn what this thing is and why does anyone care that it's in beta public.
But yet I lurked longer than many of other product pages I land on to think about what might be going on thanks to the nature of graphics and the non-standard non-bootstrap template approach.
Sometimes providing TLDR means you are providing a way for people to instantly ignore you without further thought. Maybe there is a desire to engage people who think.
Yeah the article is quite bad for the uninitiated but it seems that is how he talks to its own community. Looks like a text editor
Author here: https://enso.sonnet.io
Thanks for the feedback, most of my usual readers know about Ensō and it seems I forgot to leave my little bubble when writing this post!