Future of web experiences
I saw a video of a content-saving tool today. It created a lot of questions in my mind about the future of web.
TL;DR
There’s no TLDR. What’s your prediction about upcoming web experiences?
Users will copy and paste a link in the canvas and then the link will preview a card design with AI-generated summaries, key bullet points, and relevant buttons. This is what my subtitle is talking about.
I first thought how convenient is that! This type of implementation was already here before the AI revolution but I began to continuously use this summarization feature in Artifact. Now I rarely read entire articles. Is this all a sign to re-imagine the web experience?
Now, one other thing I noticed is that some people can sell their products with a simple old look and feel landing page without any fancy items or next to the top design style. I developed this theme with the help of Framer for ordinary people to sell their products more conveniently when I saw a tech leader, showcasing his product on a “not so fancy” landing page.
I received a newsletter stating that this famous person in the tech industry is selling a book. I was curious so just browsed around and found out that the website is not well organized in terms of design and everything. But it turns out that the selling of this book was a huge success. (I’m intentionally not giving the backlink here, because no misinterpretation was intended, I kind of admire him and regularly look for his updates.)
And then there is meta verse and Apple’s vision!
What’s the lesson from all these?
Are all these interrelated or am I picking out some things randomly? I also noticed several indie hackers and solopreneurs saying that all these fancy websites and animations are not needed to sell the right product to the right customers. Especially Levelsio in this video (24:50). I kind of agree with his statement but at the same time do not agree. We need new experiences every now and then otherwise we will get bored by looking at the same design and layout.
The most copied layouts and styles are from Stripe and Linear. For a long period, most of the websites were like that.
My only point is that do not oversell a product with a website. Sometimes I stumbled up on some websites and I think, why can't I create something like this, and then when get access to their app, it’s a different scenario. Probably a duplicate of some random free theme that is in no way suitable for the platform. One example of this is “tagembed”. I was just exploring Framer plugins and found out this, so just out of curiosity created an account and oh man it’s a 2014 or 15 theme with the worst design and all. I immediately escaped but couldn’t even delete my account. An interesting part is, that a platform like Framer is using their plugin because they have real paying customers who would like to use their embedding service in a website.
Now that Agents are here…
It’s all about chatting I think. There are dozens of tools out there that just provide a field for chatting with your PDFs and docs. Generate images, video, and audio by chatting. And then there are summarizing tools and obviously detailing tools 😂.
Some YouTubers do this trick where they take a long time to explain a simple thing, why? Just to increase the time of the video. One day I had to Google“convert YouTube subtitles into text/YouTube video summarize”.
I think the agents’ introduction is a great advancement. Many tools will be obsoleted, some will pivot or some will advance their game by focusing on all of the nitty-gritty things.
Wait for your turn to jump ship. Ride the wave or float or…. you know… :)
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