u/Affectionate-Box3549

Curious how people here actually handle this day to day

A few days ago I shared my API platform, 1Baton, on Reddit and a few other communities.

Since then, I've been using Microsoft Clarity to watch how visitors interact with the site and where they drop off.

What I noticed is that most visitors only spend a short time on the landing page. Some continue into the product, but many never make it past that step.

Now I'm trying to understand what drives that behavior.

Is the landing page failing to clearly communicate the value?

Is the first experience after entering the product (including the initial guidance / tour) not strong enough to convince users to continue?

Or is it simply that the product doesn’t match a real enough pain point for most visitors?

For those who have launched side projects:

• What has had the biggest impact on landing page conversion for you?
• How do you think about improving clarity vs. adding more “explanatory layers” (videos, tours, demos, etc.)?
• What signals helped you understand whether the issue was messaging vs. product fit?

I’ve added a short guided tour right after entry, but I’m still trying to understand what actually improves the first-time conversion from landing page to active usage.

I work with a lot of REST APIs, and I kept running into the same frustration: I'd write a quick script to test a multi-step flow (fetch a resource, use one of its fields as input to the next call, verify the chain holds), then throw it away. Next time I needed something similar, I'd write it again from scratch.

Postman works great for many workflows, but I found myself wanting a way to model reusable, composable sequences, where the same "get user" call appears in ten different test scenarios with different parameters.

For example:
Create User → Create Cart → Add Item → Checkout

Each step depends on outputs from the previous one, and the same flow often needs to be reused with different inputs.

I built a visual tool for composing chained API calls, and you can find it here - 1Baton.com

The mental model is three layers:

• Request - one HTTP call definition, with the outputs you want to capture
• Sequence - an ordered, parameterized chain of requests (outputs from step N flow into step N+1)
• Playbook - a runnable test case that wires sequences together with real values The thing I'm most happy with is that sequences are genuinely reusable.

You define "Add Item to Cart" once, parameterized by (cartId, itemId, quantity), and use it ten times across different playbooks. Same logic with different inputs.

It runs in the browser, so no setup is required. There's an optional local runner for APIs that block cross-origin requests.

Would love to hear if this scratches an itch for anyone else, or if you've solved this problem a different way.

I work with a lot of REST APIs, and I kept running into the same frustration: I'd write a quick script to test a multi-step flow (fetch a resource, use one of its fields as input to the next call, verify the chain holds), then throw it away. Next time I needed something similar, I'd write it again from scratch.

Postman works great for many workflows, but I found myself wanting a way to model reusable, composable sequences, where the same "get user" call appears in ten different test scenarios with different parameters.

For example:
Create User → Create Cart → Add Item → Checkout

Each step depends on outputs from the previous one, and the same flow often needs to be reused with different inputs.

I built a visual tool for composing chained API calls.

The mental model is three layers:

• Request - one HTTP call definition, with the outputs you want to capture
• Sequence - an ordered, parameterized chain of requests (outputs from step N flow into step N+1)
• Playbook - a runnable test case that wires sequences together with real values The thing I'm most happy with is that sequences are genuinely reusable.

You define "Add Item to Cart" once, parameterized by (cartId, itemId, quantity), and use it ten times across different playbooks. Same logic with different inputs.

It runs in the browser, so no setup is required. There's an optional local runner for APIs that block cross-origin requests.

You can find it here - 1Baton.com

Would love to hear if this scratches an itch for anyone else, or if you've solved this problem a different way.