Most SaaS landing pages feel like a sterile dentist’s waiting room. You work on your design and branding just to slap the same generic, blue chat bubble in the corner that everyone ignores.
People don't want to talk to another "customer success bot." They want to feel like they're actually in a room with other humans.
I spent the last three months obsessed with why 2005-era internet felt so much more alive than the "optimized" web we have now. Remember Habbo Hotel? The vibe was weird, social, and actually fun.
So, I built a real-time, isometric pixel-art chat widget. Instead of a text bubble, visitors appear as little avatars in a virtual room on your site. They can walk around, chat with each other, and see you (the founder) hanging out in there.
Technically, I made sure the latency was low enough for "real-time" movement while keeping the bundle size small enough not to wreck a site's Lighthouse score.
I’m currently featured on ProductHunt (which is its own circle of hell, let's be honest), but I’m mostly looking for some brutal feedback from people who actually build things.
Is this too "unprofessional" for a serious B2B tool? Or do you think bringing the social part back actually has some potential?
I've got the demo running on the landing page if anyone wants to jump in and say hi.
For those of you who have experimented with stuff like that before, did it actually help your bounce rate, or did people just get confused and leave?