Maquoketa ResearchYC P26 landing page report.
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Maquoketa Researchhttps://www.maquoketa.net/

Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Maquoketa Research ranks

  1. 1.Buoy Studios71
  2. 2.The Gang70
  3. 3.Maquoketa Research65
  4. 4.Gamefam62
  5. 5.Talewind59
  6. 6.Voldex58
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Score over time

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  1. Sep 20, 202665LiveOverall +11 · Value props +16 · CTA +14Viewing
  2. Apr 29, 202654First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 72, weakest Trust 32View →

Trust

42Poor

Proof that the product is real, competent, and safe to try.

Buoy Studios
Gamefam
The Gang
Voldex
Talewind
Trust read
Maquoketa ResearchNo visible trust signal identified.
GamefamStats panel: "76K Playing Our Games Right Now ... 165+ Brand Campaigns To Date ... Stats Powered by RoMonitOR™"
The GangClient logo strip: IKEA, Gucci, iHeart, NFL, Amazon, NHL, SHEIN, Klarna, Nerf
VoldexFeatured Games card showing Brookhaven title art on mobile
Talewind"professionals from major mobile studios (like King) and top 10 Roblox games (like Adopt Me)"
Buoy Studios"SHIPPING IN PRODUCTION APPS AT" logo wall with Walmart, Whataburger, You.com, gloo, EverLights, Kwik Trip

Mobile web

62Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture123
  1. Uncollapsed desktop nav — Full link row plus a second 'Submit an idea' line stack into a double-decker header eating the top of the fold.
  2. Duplicate 'maquoketa' title — Repeats the wordmark already in the header, spending prime fold space and pushing the CTA further down.
  3. Submit a gameplay loop — Primary CTA sits below the first mobile viewport, forcing a scroll before any action is possible.

Value props

68Fair

Title, subtitle, hero — do they sell the product's true value?

Maquoketa Research’s headline sellsYour loop. Our build.Bring us a gameplay loop worth making. If we select it, we fund development and build it into a Roblox game.

Working

  • Subhead names the exact deal: idea in, funded game out
  • CTA "Submit a gameplay loop" matches the value prop
  • Kicker frames it as a partnership, not a service

Could improve

  • Headline is cryptic without the subhead
  • No numbers: funding size, games shipped, creators paid
  • Hero is a concept illustration, not a real built game

CTA

76Fair

Copy, size, verb, cost-feel — does the primary CTA earn the click?

Maquoketa Research

Problems

  • 'Submit' feels like paperwork
  • four words, past one fixation
  • nav says 'Submit an idea' instead

Information hierarchy

78Fair

Does the design help or inhibit what the page is trying to say?

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Submit an idea nav — Underlined duplicate CTA with a different label than the hero's 'Submit a gameplay loop', splitting the one action into two names.
  2. Giant maquoketa wordmark — Repeats the logo at headline scale and pushes the real value prop toward the fold line without adding information.
  3. Three nav links — For creators / Our tools / Watch demos sit at equal weight and leak attention before the submit action.
  4. How partnership works link — Secondary exit placed directly under the primary CTA, in its scan path.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop