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Instead of having a homepage, just open a blank document #128

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edsaperia opened this issue Jun 8, 2023 · 0 comments
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Instead of having a homepage, just open a blank document #128

edsaperia opened this issue Jun 8, 2023 · 0 comments
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edsaperia commented Jun 8, 2023

At the moment the homepage will do the following things:

  1. give you a little bit of info about the docs.plus project
  2. give you the option to open a blank document or a named document
  3. give you the option to login
  4. If you are logged in, select a document you've contributed to in the past

My proposal is that instead of having a homepage, when the user goes to the URL docs.plus they should just be shown a new, blank document with a random URL. To see an example of this UX, take a look at https://docs.new, which opens a new blank google doc.

I think this is a good idea for a few reasons:

  1. it will give the user immediate experience of the product without having to explain it, they don't have to make a decision if they want to try it out
  2. the basic features of the product are intuitive, we can just show it (it's a notepad), and then they can just get started immediately
  3. all of the key features (new doc, open doc, login) will be accessible from the document view anyway
  4. we don't have to design and maintain a homepage

If in the future we want to have an enterprise product then we can have a homepage with features and pricing, but right now this seems much easier, better and less work!

@edsaperia edsaperia added the Idea label Jun 8, 2023
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