This is the next level of PowerPoint presentations.
I just had a look at the example videos. Really, what is gained here?
Back in the days, when I made websites or home pages for clients, my first question was: "What's your message you want to tell with your website?" Sometimes the client couldn't answer this, because he simply wanted a website for the sake of having a website. But a website without a message is meaningless more or less.
> "What's your message you want to tell with your website?" Sometimes the client couldn't answer this, because he simply wanted a website for the sake of having a website.
A good consultant / contractor understands the implicit requirements and is able to ask the right questions that the client is able to answer instead or planting traps, gotchas, and acting like a mean teacher examining a naughty student.
Yes, likely the client wanted a website because it was trendy and competitors were starting to have websites and he didn't want to be left behind. Now, that you sneered enough at this business wanting to stay in business, you can actually advise them. Maybe they don't have a message. Maybe they never had to think about things that way, because they never made this type of branding decisions and operated in the old offline word, based on word of mouth, old types of ads, phone calling people whatnot.
And a website can be quite meaningful without branding messaging. For example a valid message is: this is our address, this is our phone number, here is our team, our product descriptions and so on. Or for that type of business: the opening hours, etc.
I think this is part of the reason users like working with AI better, because it actually helps them get to the thing they actually want, instead of gatekeeping and testing whether the client is worthy and deserving enough to have a website made for them.
Absolutely spot on. Same thing goes on with interviewers trying to one up, trick, and feel superior to the candidate they’re interviewing instead of assessing capability/fit.
Aldipower · · focus · HN ↗
Back in the days, when I made websites or home pages for clients, my first question was: "What's your message you want to tell with your website?" Sometimes the client couldn't answer this, because he simply wanted a website for the sake of having a website. But a website without a message is meaningless more or less.
bonoboTP · · focus · HN ↗
A good consultant / contractor understands the implicit requirements and is able to ask the right questions that the client is able to answer instead or planting traps, gotchas, and acting like a mean teacher examining a naughty student.
Yes, likely the client wanted a website because it was trendy and competitors were starting to have websites and he didn't want to be left behind. Now, that you sneered enough at this business wanting to stay in business, you can actually advise them. Maybe they don't have a message. Maybe they never had to think about things that way, because they never made this type of branding decisions and operated in the old offline word, based on word of mouth, old types of ads, phone calling people whatnot.
And a website can be quite meaningful without branding messaging. For example a valid message is: this is our address, this is our phone number, here is our team, our product descriptions and so on. Or for that type of business: the opening hours, etc.
I think this is part of the reason users like working with AI better, because it actually helps them get to the thing they actually want, instead of gatekeeping and testing whether the client is worthy and deserving enough to have a website made for them.
sowhat1 · · focus · HN ↗
Aldipower · · focus · HN ↗