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Build the best alternative frontend

Take the best part of each direct competitor plus what visitors in the space expect, and build it better.

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Purpose::

Build the perfect alternative to your direct competitors: their best parts plus what visitors in this space are used to.

Rules::

  • Reference = your captured competitors (funnels and sitemaps) and your inspiration site
  • Take the best part of each; keep what is traditional in the space
  • Presentation only; login, API and dashboard logic keep working

Inventory::

  • Competitor funnels, sitemaps and screenshots
  • Your site's repo and a headless browser for screenshots

Steps::

  1. 1Per competitor: note the landing, pages and flow
  2. 2List what they all share (traditional) and the best part of each
  3. 3Build the header, footer and home, then the other public pages from that list
  4. 4Deploy; screenshot desktop and mobile; compare with the competitor screenshots; fix
  5. 5Reply: pages built and which competitor each best part came from

Metrics::

  • A visitor of any competitor feels at home
  • It looks better than each of them
  • Login, signup and dashboard still work
Website.md

Purpose:: List the pages of the first website.

Steps::

  1. 1. Start with home, pricing
  2. 2. Add signup and signin if users get an account
  3. 3. Add the 1-3 pages where the idea and the success metric happen
  4. 4. Reply as one comma separated line

Plan a first sitemap

The 4-7 pages your first website needs, so every CTA and success metric has a page.

Website.md

Purpose:: Lock the main inspiration URL: the live site your first website follows in structure and craft.

Steps::

  1. 1. Think of 3 famous products that sell something close to your idea
  2. 2. Open each; note how the home page puts the main action first
  3. 3. Keep the one with the clearest, most detailed home
  4. 4. Reply with its homepage URL and one line on what you take from it

Pick an inspiration website

Lock one famous, live product site whose structure your first website will follow.

Website.md

Purpose:: Say in one concrete sentence why this project is a perfect fit for you.

Steps::

  1. 1. Read the project's purpose
  2. 2. Read what you are about and what you have
  3. 3. Find the overlap: what you already have that this project can offer
  4. 4. Write: we have <X> (evidence), so <project> offers <Y> to <buyer>

Prove the fit in one sentence

Say why this project is a perfect fit for you, with evidence of what you already have.

Website.md

Purpose:: Put your brand onto a built frontend without moving anything.

Steps::

  1. 1. Read the brand kit: fonts, colors, buttons
  2. 2. Set fonts and color variables once, globally
  3. 3. Add logo, favicon and OG image; set the site name and theme color
  4. 4. Replace every competitor name, color and image

Apply a brand to a built site

Swap colors, fonts, logos and images to your brand without moving a single block.