Great points and appreciate that feedback! Here's the home page where you'd get to docs from: https://payitoff.io/

Does that provide more clarity on the product / audience?

Is this supposed to be like Stripe for student loans? It's extremely unclear what the problem is, who has the problem, and how you're solving it.

> Give your products student loan superpowers

Not clear who your audience is here. Mobile games? Disposable razors? CBD gummies? Savings accounts? Whose products is this for?

> Use our API to create life-changing student loan outcomes for your customers - freeing up cash they can save, invest and spend

Same here. Are you going to give my disposable razor customers life-changing outcomes?

I'd recommending killing all of your copy and replacing it with 10% of the word count, except targeted at the specific problem you're solving.

Killer, thank you! Appreciate the feedback. Do you work in copywriting by chance? We're mostly eng so could always use help in this arena :)

To answer your question, yes we are stripe for student loans. Automating every aspect of student loan repayment for fintechs and workplace benefits providers.

No sorry - I'm also eng. YC has a few resources that should be able to help you though (see below). Something that they stress is "clarity of thought". "Student loan repayment automation for workplace benefits providers" is a great starting point :)

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6q-how-to-pitch-your-sta...

you rule, thanks!

The sentence that you said in reply to the other poster, "Automating every aspect of student loan repayment for fintechs and workplace benefits providers." explained to me what the product does more than 95% of the sites landing copy.

A sentence approximately like this, or a problem statement, followed by a sentence like this, should be at the very top of the landing page. The stuff about student loan superpowers, was confusing to me and some of the material sounded like it was possibly written by someone who wasn't a native speaker.

Loved being a part of this, the presentations were absolutely hilarious. We made Larry, a "lazy Siri" in webapp form: https://www.larri.rocks/

True, perhaps... but whenever I'm learning something for fun, I apply it to something without any applicable human benefit.

I dabbled in machine learning algorithms... but just so I could play board games with my computer. As a student, I think it matters less what you're applying your emerging knowledge to.

This reminds me of when my wife and first started dating long distance - Skype screen sharing movies was our jam

Though I originally made it for me and my SO, it was surprising how many people have told me that they also have done the whole netflix, skype and "3, 2, 1, go" combo. Its interesting to think about things we could make that would better allow shared experience or emotional intimacy with people over distance.

This is pretty much exactly what myself and fiancee did - though for us, the '3, 2, 1, go' became part of the tradition, and we took it in turns to make up 'alternative countdowns' for programmes. Interesting the way that technical limitations can also translate to shared experiences.

Of course, the biggest issue was that netflix offerings in the US were very different to those in the UK, so we'd spend about an hour where one of us tried to find dubiously legal ways to watch a programme the other could watch fine on netflix.

How did that work for you? Isn't skype screenshare super laggy for a movie? What about audio?

In our case, we did netflix that we manually synced up and just do videochat on skype. Facetime doesn't work because it hijacks your sound, turns down all other audio sources and you can't turn it off. Silly apple.

The skype is nice because it puts a thumbnail of their face that stays hovered over the netflix even while it's in fullscreen.

Understanding the software of your domain will allow you to be more informed on how to improve it. A mastery of Midi to make better and new musical instruments...

The foundation for these abilities comes from habits this OP encourages you to avoid

>Understanding the software of your domain will allow you to be more informed on how to improve it.

Or it could result in you getting lost in its minutiae and losing the big picture.

After a while you might not even care to improve it at all, just end happily exploring niche advanced areas.

I am drawn to this type of life, especially when my goal is learning a new skillset.

Only problem is, you end up feeling like just another 'productive asset', squeezing every inch of time to maximize output.

It sounds the author's routine is so closed, almost never leaving time for an open mind or time to reflect.

Just picked up the book, anyone else?

Wow, quite a story. I wish we saw more like it on HN. Honest and real

I know GoDaddy has a pretty terrible history, what have you seen specifically?

I'm curious his personal experience outside of what I could find via Google search

How would he know what you found via Google Search without disclaiming it, or even mentioning that you had searched at all? "Anything other than X, Y, and Z?" would be more polite.

Thanks for sharing your story. If you need someone to chat with: http://www.startupsanonymo.us/