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Posted by bnc319 1 day ago

Why our website looks like an operating system(posthog.com)
667 points | 476 commentspage 6
paddw 1 day ago|
It's all marketing. But it's good marketing.
DustinBrett 1 day ago||
As someone with a personal website which looks like an operating system, I support this trend!

This interface is very well done, great job!

fny 1 day ago||
Very fun! Some constructive feedback: the mobile experience is painful. Lots of real estate gets eaten up, and a lot of content ends up being hidden.

Also you broke the back button.

Finally, it's not intuitive where to click to get started.

dewey 1 day ago||
I'm not sure I would be brave enough to do experiments like that with my landing page. I wonder how it converts.

While it's a fun experiment for a personal website seems a bit impractical for a marketing page for a tool that is not always bought by engineers.

xpe 1 day ago|
Well, it does look a lot like Windows, macOS, and many Linux desktop environments. Yes, it might feel unfamiliar to people who have only used tablets or phones.
dewey 1 day ago||
I understand that, but it behaves very differently to what's usually expected of such a website where you can maybe search by Cmd + F, or more importantly have it correctly indexed by search engines. The latter is probably not that straight forward with such a page structure.
talkingtab 1 day ago||
Except look at it from a phone. (Developer tools if you don't have a phone).
theamk 1 day ago||
Looks neat, but also makes feels really slow in my browser. I'd take the regular windows at any time, especially since it's super simple to detach a tab from browser, check "Always on top", and put next to code editor or something.

Also there are non-removable bars on top and bottom of the page, even if window is "maximized".

47282847 1 day ago||
What’s it with the definitely not legally required “legally-required Cookie Banner“.
Nevermark 1 day ago||
I love it! Looks nice, response as smooth as butter.

Not to for serious use. But it is clever, interesting and fun to play with.

But where is the web browser? To be complete, it needs a web browser. :)

bigfishrunning 1 day ago||
Seems kind of redundant -- I don't need a window manager in a website. If i want to open several articles at once, can't i just open several browser windows in the window manager I'm already running?
resonious 1 day ago|
Man if you did open-in-new-window instead of open-in-new-tab, you would get all of this "for free".
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