Most app landing pages look great but fail at one thing: helping visitors make a decision fast. The design is polished, the animations are smooth - yet people still bounce. Why? Because the page never answers the three core questions quickly enough: Is this for me? Can I trust it? What do I do next?

After analyzing dozens of high-performing pages, a clear set of patterns separates pages that rank and convert from those that just look pretty. Here are five you can apply right now.

1. Answer the Big Three Above the Fold

Your first screen has one job: confirm relevance. That means your hero section must immediately communicate who this is for, what outcome it creates, and what action to take next. If visitors need to scroll to understand your product, you've already lost them.

A practical first-screen stack looks like this: an outcome-led headline, a plain-language subheadline, one trust signal (a customer metric, logo, or result), and a single primary CTA with clear expectation-setting - not "Sign up" but "Launch your first page in 15 minutes."

2. Put Proof Next to Claims - Not Below Them

One of the most common conversion leaks is proof drift: you make a bold claim at the top, then bury the evidence three scrolls down. By the time visitors reach it, they've already left. Place one solid trust cue immediately near your first promise. Use quantified statements ("reduced launch time by 43%") rather than vague adjectives. Segment testimonials by buyer role — a founder quote converts better for founder traffic than a generic user review.

3. Give Every Section One Job

Pages with ten sections and no clear purpose feel busy but unconvincing. The strongest pages treat each section as a conversion task: clarify the mechanism, resolve an objection, demonstrate a use case, or trigger the next action. This turns content architecture into conversion logic. If a section doesn't serve a decision, cut it or rewrite it.

4. Handle Objections Explicitly

Top-performing pages don't hide hard questions - they surface them. Setup complexity, migration risk, team adoption, AI oversight boundaries - these are the things visitors quietly worry about and then go Google elsewhere. Build a short section (or FAQ block near the bottom) that answers these directly. Pages that do this keep users on-page and moving toward action instead of bouncing to look for answers elsewhere.

5. Design for Scan-First Reading

Most visitors scan before they commit to reading. Use short intro paragraphs, outcome-specific subheadings, and predictable section patterns. Scannability isn't about dumbing things down - it's a usability requirement. Pages that rank in competitive spaces are not simple; they are easy to navigate.

These patterns are part of a much deeper breakdown of what separates high-converting app landing pages from the rest. If you want the full framework - including 42 specific patterns with adaptation logic, implementation scenarios, and a 30-day build plan — the complete guide is worth a read: 42 Unique and Creative App Landing Page Patterns for 2026.

The core takeaway: a unique, creative landing page wins not through visual novelty, but through structure that reduces cognitive load and proof that arrives exactly when visitors need it.

At Temple, they are building the ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes. A device that measures what no other wearable in the world measures, with a level of precision that doesn't exist yet.

Roles they're hiring for:

• Analog Systems Engineers, Electronics Design Engineers
• Embedded Systems Engineers — low-level HW bring-up, embedded signal and image processing, embedded AI
• Design and Validation Engineers — sensors, actuators, battery, antenna, optics
• CMF Engineers, Adhesive Materials Engineers
• Sensor Algorithms Engineers — estimation theory, sensor fusion
• Deep Learning Engineers — ML model development for physiological metrics
• Computational Neuroscientists
• BCI Engineers — real-time EEG/EMG acquisition and processing
• Neural Decoding Researchers — brain activity to semantic mapping
• Computer Vision Engineers — facial microexpression, subvocal muscle detection
• Neuroimaging ML Engineers — multimodal sensor fusion
• Product Managers

Write to buiild[at]temple[dot]com with your core skill as the subject line.

Source: Deepinder Goyal

Supabase.co is inaccessible to users across multiple Indian ISPs, including Jio, Airtel, and ACT Fibernet, due to a ministry order.

Supabase is used by millions of developers worldwide, and millions of users in India are currently unable to access our platform due to these blocks.

The block stems from a Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) order under Section 69A of India's IT Act 2000, enforced at the ISP level (Jio, Airtel, ACT Fibernet, etc.) on supabase.com and *.supabase.co domains.

No public details on the order number, date, or exact reason have been released by the government. Supabase reports their backend is fully operational and is engaging MeitY for resolution. Common workaround: switch DNS to 1.1.1.1 or use a VPN.

Source: Supabase

State transition testing is a technique used to verify how a system behaves when it moves from one state to another. Many applications operate based on conditions, statuses, or sequences of events. This method ensures that each valid transition produces the correct outcome and that invalid transitions are handled properly.

In real-world systems, behavior often depends on previous actions. For example, an account may move from “active” to “suspended,” or an order may progress from “pending” to “processed” to “shipped.” State transition testing validates these flows to ensure that the system responds accurately at every stage.

The process typically involves identifying all possible states, defining allowed transitions between them, and designing test cases to verify both valid and invalid movements. This structured modeling helps uncover logic errors that might not appear in simple functional testing.

Key benefits of state transition testing include:

Improved validation of complex workflows

Detection of incorrect state handling

Better coverage of conditional logic

Reduced risk of unexpected system behavior

This approach is particularly useful in applications such as financial systems, embedded software, authentication mechanisms, and workflow-driven platforms. By validating how the system behaves across transitions, teams strengthen reliability and ensure predictable behavior under varying conditions.

State transition testing adds depth to functional validation by focusing on how the application reacts over time, not just at a single point of interaction.

Jack's tweet:

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

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Apple Inc. is in discussions with key Indian banks and global card networks in preparation to start Apple Pay in the world’s most populous country.

• Apple Inc. is in discussions with key Indian banks and global card networks to start Apple Pay in India around the middle of 2026.
• Apple is talking to ICICI Bank Ltd., HDFC Bank Ltd. and Axis Bank Ltd., as well as payment networks Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc. about the plan.
• Apple Pay in India is expected to support India's state-backed Unified Payments Interface, or UPI, alongside card-based payments.

Source: Bloomberg

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Stripe is considering a deal to buy some or all of PayPal Holdings, sources told Bloomberg, though talks are still in their very early stages and the deal may not happen.

The news comes the same day Stripe released its annual letter, giving updates on the business. The big news was that Stripe is making a tender offer that values the company at $159 billion, a 74% increase from last year. The investors buying employee shares this time around include Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital. Stripe will also buy back some stock, the letter said.

The latest valuation again makes Stripe one of the industry’s most valuable private companies. Based in Dublin, Stripe’s co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison, told CNBC recently that going public was not on his list of priorities. PayPal Holdings (which includes the flagship product PayPal and its services, as well as other companies like Venmo) is currently a publicly traded company, with a market cap of around $40 billion.

PayPal’s stock rose slightly after reports of Stripe’s interest in an acquisition. Stripe declined to comment.

Source: TechCrunch

This is their first move toward building indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of developing next-generation civil aviation platforms from India.

By bringing Sharang Shakti into LAT, they are building these capabilities in-house, from first principles, with the intent to deploy them across both defence and civil programs over time.

Source: Deepinder Goyal

Only two Indian apps crack India's top 20 by daily active users.

Indian apps hold 35 of the top 100, 123 of 300.

U.S. apps lead with 44 of top 100, 74 of 300.

Source: Indiadispatch