Maker of app here. Thanks for posting! That's precisely one of the goals.
SLEEP is a massive musical landscape and there is so much to explore. I hope this app will allow me to hear more of SLEEP while they meditate, focus or ... sleep.
However, while its potentially satisfying to calculate things like "2x" happy or "0.5x" marketing spend, it is simply a (self-masturbatory) abstraction. How is "happiness" defined, and how does it occur? If you gave away the candy boxes people would indeed be happy and would not cancel, and you get away with marketing spend.
Abstraction is nice as a thought exercise. However, abstraction -/> application.
John McWhorter, the Columbia linguist who pinned the article, makes a conniving argument.
However, the counterargument is that Shakespeare plays are just that - plays, which are meant to be experienced and watched, and not read. The fact that Shakespeare's prose are full of alliterative sound echoes and half-rhymes means that translations to modern English will likely see nuances rid of or at least diminished. A good band of actors can conveys Shakespeare effective beyond just the texts: via delivery, body motions, intonation, and all of this aids in the audience understanding and appreciating his plays.
Its interesting that many of my post-college friends are finding content on Facebook increasingly less relatable, and therefore using it less. I think part of Facebook's appeal to those still in school is that it acts to reinforce the social bonds that are formed through physical encounters. Once those physical encounters die out, Facebook's use is also diminished.
I would also echo this: "Make learning a competitive advantage" is vague. It was only until I clicked on "customers" that I got a rough sense of what your product is trying to accomplish.
Also, the "see pricing and plans" button doesn't need to be up on top with your tag line (because its likely that users won't know about your product from the current tagline alone). This should be somewhere down the bottom after someone has gotten a sense of what your product does.
In fact, I think you already wrote your most powerful tagline: "We’ll be the software behind https://learn.MY-COMPANY.com. Just put that up top.
I just concentrated on the front page. The color scheme is quite pleasing :)
As someone who has just begun to learn to program (I finished JS lessons on Codecademy two weeks ago), I could attest that the Rails installation was quite daunting. Had I read about the "straight-forward" path you mentioned back then, I'd have just seen "Get acronym > which version of Ruby > What is a gem > Rails > what the hell is fork ".The last thing I want when trying out a new language is to be presented a smorgasbord of options that showcases language's capabilities, but all of which I have little understanding of.
I see this process somewhat analogous to learning a new musical instrument, like a violin. A professional violinist may care to customize many aspects of the instrument to meet his or her needs, including the turning of the instrument (perhaps he cares to set A to 416 to emulate Baroque turning). A beginner, by contrast, would just like to be handed a well tuned instrument ready to learn and experiment. Now, would it kill that beginner to set and tune his own set of strings, or maybe given the options to set his violin to Baroque turning as well? Certainly not - though the necessity and benefits of such an exercise would surely be lost on many beginners.
SLEEP is a massive musical landscape and there is so much to explore. I hope this app will allow me to hear more of SLEEP while they meditate, focus or ... sleep.