Splash Inc.YC W25 landing page report.
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Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

Fix Trust

Score over time

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  1. Sep 22, 202658LiveOverall +4 · Information hierarchy +14 · CTA +6Viewing
  2. Jul 16, 202654First tracked report — strongest Value props 62, weakest Trust 48View →

Trust

48Poor

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

Seasats
Trust read
Splash Inc.No visible trust signal identified.
Saronic TechnologiesNo visible trust signal identified.
Ocius TechnologyNo visible trust signal identified.
SeasatsReal product photography: three Seasats autonomous vessels on water with visible solar panels and sensor masts
Open Ocean RoboticsNo visible trust signal identified.
Saildroneimplicit context Saildrone may benefit from pre-existing familiarity among its target audience.

Mobile web

54Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture12
  1. Contact Us bar — Primary CTA sits far below the first viewport and is styled as a thin bar, not a tappable button.
  2. Overlapping ticker text — 'Variable mission profiles' and 'Payload Delivery' collide over the boat in low-contrast text, looking like a layout bug.

CTA

58Fair

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

Splash Inc.
Seasats

Problems

  • no action verb, reads as label
  • click feels costly, not valuable
  • no payoff or headline echo
  • styled as bar, weak button affordance

Value props

58Fair

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

Splash Inc.’s headline vagueMaritime Autonomy DeliveredVariable mission profiles

Working

  • Hero shows real USV in action
  • Mission ticker hints at use cases
  • "Delivered" implies proven, not vaporware

Could improve

  • No numbers or specs anywhere
  • Subhead is a bare feature fragment
  • Copy assumes reader knows the product

Information hierarchy

72Fair

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

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Contact Us bar — Primary CTA is a low-key text label pinned at the very bottom edge, outside the natural scan path and easy to read as a footer.
  2. Mission profiles ticker — Category words like 'Mine Clearing' and 'Coastal Defense' are near-transparent over the water, making the key use-case list illegible.
  3. Variable mission profiles — Sub-headline is small, low-contrast gray floating mid-image, disconnected from the headline it should support.