Final checks before launch

Hi 💁‍♂️

We are still working on the MVP but we plan to officially launch our website next week. Any comment, suggestion, remark about the service and the website would help us greatly.

Address : https://www.thedatapond.net

Based on your feedback over the past few days, we've tried to improve our landing page. He added three case studies to help people better understand what the website is for.

We are still wondering what's the better headline :

• GEOLOCALIZED OPEN DATA EXTRACTION or
• EXTRACT GEOLOCALIZED OPEN DATA

The subtitle is : "from a geographic area to a list of names, addresses, websites, phone numbers, email addresses...". Does it help ?

And we are thinking about adding this somewhere : "Are you looking for clients in a particular geographic area and in a particular industry? Try TDP to build a contact list and start offering your services.".
Is it necessary ? relevant ? too much ?

If you find a typo or grammar errors, please let us know.

We look forward to reading your comments.

Thanks 🙏

The three case studies :

CASE STUDY #1
Babelli, translation company
Babelli specializes in the translation of menus and websites. This small company wants to offer its services to bars in two new small towns. They plan to cold call potential clients, check their website, ans send them documentation.
data extracted :

• 761 addresses
• 402 websites
• 578 phone numbers
• 339 email addresses

CASE STUDY #2
Henry, accountant specializing in restaurants
Henry would like to expand his client list. He will therefore seek new contacts, district by district, starting with the Chelsea district, in order to offer his services to restaurant managers.
data extracted :

• 140 addresses
• 80 websites
• 56 phone numbers
• 16 email addresses

CASE STUDY #3
Valentine, creator / designer
Valentine has created a new plastic-free flower packaging. She wishes to contact the florists of her city to present her creation and convince them to switch to eco-friendly packaging.
data extracted :

• 208 addresses
• 92 websites
• 98 phone numbers
• 74 email addresses

Data from services like Google Maps or Foursquare cannot be used for marketing or communication. For example, Google Maps Terms of Services (3.2.3) say 'No Scraping. Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services.
Data from The Data Pond are under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).'You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same license.'

Comments

[Alex Janke]

I guess the text itself is okay, not really in the topic to give any criticism so I'll skip that

buuuuut..... there are some major basics that you seemed to have skipped when building your site:

• I'm amazed that almost every link I see on here has no cookie banner, yet collects data like it's nothing. Also, no data policy? How do you process my data when I sign up? Where do you store it? Who has access apart from you? Did you enabled anonymizeIP in Google Analytics?... Not to talk down on you but you cannot just collect peoples data - at least not in the EU. This has to be transparent and easily accessible. As it stands now the page clearly violates gdpr and gets into funky territory when I would sign up as I did not consent to you processing my data. Might seem super pedantic but law is law.
• You really need to rework that text contrast. The super faint gray and red is barely visible, some of the text is awfully small too
• Replace your png logo with a svg. The current one looks pretttty blurry. Like you've got sooo much space where your logo is. Don't hide it. Also the twitter icon is way too small. You made me check 3 times if I accidentally zoomed out :|
• I'm on a 1920x1200 desktop and I've got a weird horizontal scrollbar
• Why load material icons just for the one icon in the footer next to contact? You already got font-awesome loaded. Pretty sure they got a mail icon you can use

[Alex Wame]

Thank you very very much. Super useful.
It took me time to answer because have been busy working on "cookie consent", "cookie privacy", private privacy"... I've learned a lot. Thanks again.
I still have to work on the other points.
Do I need to work more on cookies / privacy ? Did I miss something ?

[Alex Janke]

So you made GA completely opt-in. That's fine. A simple banner "hey we're using cookies. please check our cookie policy. by using this site you agree yada yada and so on", something like that would work fine too. I feel like now your analytics gets pretty worthless because no one would explicitly scroll all the way down, go into your cookie prefs and then opt-in. It's a really generous way on your end regarding data privacy though and this can't backfire.
You would still need to "hint" to the user that these exist when signing up. You know the infamous "I've read the terms and data privacy" checkbox when signing up. Highly recommend you add this too; just link to your already existing policies.
At the bottom of your start page, you have "latest update-textfield" where people can sign up. I'm not entirely sure how the data-privacy works in newsletter cases but I feel like it would be similar. I'm really not sure though.

The whole data privacy thing is quite a pain to implement, I know..

[Alex Wame]

Actually, the new version of the GDPR is very strict. For non-essential cookies, we have to asks for user’s consent. And before they’ve answered, or if they don’t consent, we shouldn’t be including those cookies. So no ads, no GA by default.
I'll add an extra message on the forms like you said. Thanks again.