It’s great that you link to resources for entering access and secret keys without giving keys to the kingdom, but I’d love it if you’re were more explicit.
Hey! We’ll need read-only access to get started.
If you don’t know how, here’s some guides to help you.
A service like this is built on trust and that kind of direct transparency and guidance will help build that into your brand right from the beginning. Even if it’s at the cost of conversion.
There's a lot of text on that homepage. The most important reason you need to stick in my head is why it's scary NOT to do this regularly and (ideally) automatically. It's too hard to find the info that tells me I can't do this myself...that I need help.
Thanks so much for the feedback! You're absolutely right that this kind of service requires a large amount of trust upfront. One of the ways I'm trying to do that is by being completely transparent about how the data is being used, what is being scanned, etc. I guess one downside of that is too much text. I'll definitely try to slim down the home page and move some of it to different pages a altogether.
Well, one way to do it would be link to your open-sourced code on github (or wherever). Of course, that makes commercializing the product a bit tougher. One general approach is value-added or "freemium" services, though: the nice UI dashboard is not free.
Definitely agree. There is a link to the GitHub on the homepage (under the sign up section "Looking for the open-source repository? Here's the GitHub link.") But if anyone is curious, here is the direct link: https://github.com/cloudsploit/scans
Excellent reply, sorry I'm so blind. But, maybe this is also just the same question of too much text -- tighten up the copy. At any rate, my apologies for missing it the first time through.
No worries! You're certainly not the first person to mention too much text. It's something I'll definitely be fixing soon. I have zero UI/UX experience (all my work is backend) so this has been a learning project for me. Thanks again for taking time to check it out!
There's a lot of text on that homepage. The most important reason you need to stick in my head is why it's scary NOT to do this regularly and (ideally) automatically. It's too hard to find the info that tells me I can't do this myself...that I need help.