VendoYC S26 landing page report.
← Back to YC S26

Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

Fix Trust

Score over time

8580757065Retool Embedded (Retool) 79 on Apr 4 (Wayback)Retool Embedded (Retool) 76 on Apr 16 (Wayback)Retool Embedded (Retool) 70 on May 3 (Wayback)Retool Embedded (Retool) 73 on Jul 21 (Wayback)Retool Embedded (Retool) 68 on Aug 18 (Wayback)Retool Embedded (Retool) 74 on Sep 20 (Live)Appsmith 72 on Jun 14 (Wayback)Appsmith 70 on Jun 26 (Wayback)Appsmith 70 on Jul 9 (Wayback)Appsmith 69 on Aug 3 (Wayback)Appsmith 69 on Aug 24 (Wayback)Appsmith 74 on Sep 5 (Wayback)Appsmith 74 on Sep 20 (Live)Budibase 72 on Sep 20 (Live)ToolJet 74 on Jun 22 (Wayback)ToolJet 68 on Sep 20 (Live)Vendo 72 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Vendo 70 on Sep 20 (Live)Aug 21Sep 20
Past reportsShow past reportsHide past reports
  1. Sep 20, 202670LiveOverall −2 · Information hierarchy −4 · Mobile web −4Viewing
  2. Aug 21, 202672First tracked report — strongest CTA 88, weakest Trust 58View →

Trust

58Fair

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

Vendo
ToolJet
Retool Embedded (Retool)
Appsmith
Budibase
Trust read
Vendo"Backed by Y Combinator" badge above the headline
Retool Embedded (Retool)Customer logo wall on mobile: DoorDash, OpenAI, Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, Stripe, Unity, Philips
AppsmithGitHub star count "40,904" displayed in the header navigation
BudibaseGitHub "27.5K" star count in the navigation
ToolJet"40,777 stars on GitHub" badge above the hero headline

Information hierarchy

68Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture1234
  1. Get a demo button — Same-size white button beside "Start free" splits the primary action into two equal choices, echoing the airplane's "BOOK A DEMO" for a third demo path.
  2. Copy AI prompt row — Third interactive cluster with three vendor icons sits directly under the CTA pair, pulling clicks away from conversion.
  3. GitHub star line — "Star us · runvendo/vendo" adds a fourth competing action and an outbound exit right in the CTA stack.
  4. Airplane demo banner — The pixel-plane "BOOK A DEMO" banner outranks the headline in the scan path and duplicates the demo CTA below.

Value props

68Fair

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

Vendo’s headline vagueYour product, shaped to every customer.An open-source customization layer. Your users build their own features and micro-apps, right on top of your product.

Working

  • Subhead names mechanism and actor clearly
  • Hero demo shows a user-built micro-app
  • Open-source + Apache-2.0 builds trust

Could improve

  • Headline could caption many products
  • No numbers or concrete outcomes
  • No emotional hook on roadmap pain

Mobile web

72Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1234
  1. Uncollapsed nav link row — Full desktop nav (Pricing, Docs, Blog, Sign in, Start free) crammed across the phone header instead of a hamburger.
  2. Book a demo banner — Decorative plane banner adds a third competing CTA above the headline and pushes the value statement down.
  3. Half-width Start free — Primary CTA shares its row with Get a demo instead of being a full-bleed, thumb-first button.
  4. Copy AI prompt bar — Extra utility control plus GitHub star line stack two more asks directly under the CTAs, diluting the primary action.

CTA

86Strong

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

Vendo

Problems

  • 4 competing hero actions
  • no header-language echo