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Chris Lozac'h
UPDATED REQUEST
TL;DR—Embed this video on the home page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COXawIKAkto
(Side note: you might want to re-render the audio for that video with corrections to the way it pronounces "llama," which it seems to think is pronounced "Uhlama". Or not. There's something reassuring about having an obvious tell that it's not a live human.)
ORIGINAL REQUEST
In an effort to increase CodeGPT adoption, you might want to consider creating a "happy path" tutorial that guides a new user through installation and usage, step-by-step. As it currently stands, the "Get Started" button on the home page starts out fine (with the sign-up experience), then dumps 'em into a screen which, speaking for myself at least, induces options paralysis. (See attached.) Here's an attempt to recreate the experience inside my head…
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What is the fastest way to evaluate this product? How can I get from Zero to Useful without falling down a bunch of rabbit holes along the way?
Do I need an agent, or is a from-scratch agent fine to get started? Common sense says I should first "Get it on VS Code Marketplace," but that button is smaller and on the right, suggesting it's a step for later…?
Ugh. I feel confused enough that maybe I should just read the docs so I know what I'm doing and then…wait…there are 4 guides to choose from?! I just clicked "Get Started," and I have no idea where to start!
Maybe there's a tutorial or Getting Started article under Knowledge. Huh. Paywalled Code Graphs and a mysterious Files UX. Man, I need help! Oh, good…a Help section. Even better: Help > Documentation! Perfect!
Oh. 😞 No "Getting Started" or "Tutorial" articles here.…
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Hopefully this helps clarify the benefit of having at least one happy path experience prominently accessible from the home page. My personal preference would be either a well-maintained (i.e., never out-of-date) realtime video walkthrough that shows a common setup—VS Code plus a vanilla JavaScript or or Python project, perhaps?—and demonstrates the most important use cases. Such a video might even already exist, but it's not helpful to have to go hunting for such resources on YouTube.
Alright, enough said. Hope this helps! I'm off to watch "CodeGPT Code Review: Git Commit" (spotted in a recent Discord post) in hopes that it helps me grok CodeGPT in a way that the website does not. ;-)