If I can offer one minor criticism when i see every major tech company listed as your users, I instantly get a sense of a distrust as people do this to inflate the legitimacy and popularity of their service. Why should we trust the statement that all these companies are using your product? I think it’s disingenuous to suggest that a lone employee uses it or even a collection without an actual commitment from those companies. Imagine if every company that ever had traffic from a Google IP put this on their homepage. I could add it to my blog.
My favorite use of brand name-dropping is the kind when a competitor of a seed-stage startup generated a news piece on their new partnership with Microsoft...
I was instantly concerned, at a sign of a huge player with major platform control entering our space.
Then I looked into it a bit, and it appeared all the competitor company had gotten is normal free startup cloud credits for Azure.
I find it dubious that employees from FAANGs would use a third -party coding environment when most have stringent policies about intellectual property and data sharing. A sandbox app like this would have to go through security review to be approved for corporate use. If available, the company would prefer to just host the app on prems.
Therefore I'm really curious how the author can tell it's used by FAANG employees. Corporate emails?
Those company-legitimacy boxes are useful for b2b sales when you're trying to sell a product that the companies in question actually pay for. This doesn't seem to be what you're trying to do so IMO I agree with the GP and you're better off removing it.
Look at the ReactJS homepage (https://reactjs.org/), it's the same as yours minus b2b fluff, and heaven knows they could list some companies in there :)
For what it’s worth, as an individual dev, if I can trust the logos, I think it does add social proof. “Trusted by developers at…” can be a way to contextualize it.
Who’s to say that person is right? If anything test it. That person may have a personal and incorrect feeling about the logos. They may be worse at b2b sales than you.
As a counterpoint, I don’t think it’s disingenuous and I have zero problems with it. I would only find it disingenuous if the statement made was false (trusted by developers at). Comparing traffic alone with actual usage of a product is weird. Obviously two very different things.
