EpicenterYC S25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Epicenter ranks

  1. 1.Obsidian75
  2. 2.Joplin72
  3. 3.Epicenter62
  4. 4.AnyType62
  5. 5.Logseq55
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Score over time

8070605040Obsidian 71 on Jun 6 (Wayback)Obsidian 76 on Jun 17 (Wayback)Obsidian 75 on Jul 15 (Wayback)Obsidian 75 on Jul 29 (Wayback)Obsidian 76 on Aug 10 (Wayback)Obsidian 74 on Sep 8 (Wayback)Obsidian 75 on Sep 22 (Live)Logseq 54 on Apr 14 (Wayback)Logseq 55 on Apr 23 (Wayback)Logseq 54 on Jul 12 (Wayback)Logseq 52 on Aug 10 (Wayback)Logseq 51 on Aug 22 (Wayback)Logseq 54 on Sep 13 (Wayback)Logseq 55 on Sep 22 (Live)AnyType 64 on Apr 20 (Wayback)AnyType 62 on May 16 (Wayback)AnyType 60 on Jun 20 (Wayback)AnyType 62 on Jul 21 (Wayback)AnyType 64 on Aug 29 (Wayback)AnyType 62 on Sep 22 (Live)Joplin 71 on Jul 5 (Wayback)Joplin 71 on Jul 12 (Wayback)Joplin 71 on Jul 23 (Wayback)Joplin 70 on Aug 7 (Wayback)Joplin 73 on Aug 29 (Wayback)Joplin 72 on Sep 10 (Wayback)Joplin 72 on Sep 22 (Live)Epicenter 62 on Jun 29 (Wayback)Epicenter 62 on Sep 22 (Live)Jun 29Sep 22
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  1. Sep 22, 202662LiveValue props −14 · Mobile web +14Viewing
  2. Jun 29, 202662First tracked report — strongest Information hierarchy 72, weakest Trust 42View →

Trust

44Poor

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

Epicenter
Joplin
Obsidian
Logseq
Trust read
Epicenter"100% open source" / "Plain text & SQLite" checkmark claims near the CTAs
ObsidianReal product screenshot showing the "Writing is telepathy" note with file tree, tags, and graph view
LogseqProduct demo mockup showing linked notes: "Meeting with [[Jessica]]" referencing "Book/Intertwingled"
AnyTypeNav banner: "Run your company on Anytype · Encrypted, Swiss-based, yours"
JoplinDetailed real product screenshot showing the Joplin desktop app (notebooks, tags, markdown note 'Vintage Piano Store ide

Value props

52Fair

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

Epicenter’s headline vagueLocal-First, Open-Source AppsOne folder of plain text and SQLite on your machine. Every tool we build shares this memory. It's open, tweakable, and yours.

Working

  • Concrete mechanism: plain text + SQLite
  • Ownership emotion: 'tweakable, and Epicenter's'
  • Badges reinforce the open-source claim

Could improve

  • Headline names ideology, not outcome
  • Never says what the apps actually do
  • No hero visual demonstrating a product

CTA

62Fair

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

Epicenter
Obsidian
Joplin
Logseq
AnyType

Problems

  • no path into the product itself
  • asks a favor, not offers value
  • star requires GitHub account

Information hierarchy

68Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture12
  1. Two external CTAs — Both "Star on GitHub" and "Join the Discord" send visitors off-site; neither converts on Epicenter itself.
  2. Headline names category only — "Local-First, Open-Source Apps" carries no product identity or visual anchor to make the promise felt.

Mobile web

86Strong

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1
  1. Four-line subhead — Body copy wraps into four lines, slowing the read before the CTA.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop