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One of clients Instagram course to landing page to payment funnel is completely broken and idk what to do

2600 clicks last month. 9 enrollments. nine.
i’ve been staring at vercel analytics and people just… leave. scroll halfway, hover on the price, and vanish. it’s maddening.
tried an exit popup and cold lead capture form got 0 captures. tried moving the CTA up didn’t help much here you just accept your landing page is broken and start over? or does anyone actually fix low-traffic funnels?

(I**’m also building something to tackle this problem**)

My client runs a small online course platform for a specific niche in India. Our entire funnel is Instagram → landing page → enrollment.

Last week's numbers:

• 2,600 people clicked from Instagram stories
• 156 made it to the enrollment page
• 9 enrolled

That's a 94% drop-off. And the brutal part vercel Analytics just showed me they left. Not why. Not who was close to converting. Just: they left.

I started digging into what actually happens between "lands on page" and "leaves forever." Three things surprised me:

1. Most drop-offs happen in the first 30 seconds Visitors who scroll past 60% almost never leave without doing We run a small online course platform for women in Northeast India. Our entire funnel is Instagram → landing page → enrollment.

Last month's numbers:

• 2,600 people clicked from Instagram stories
• 156 made it to the enrollment page
• 9 enrolled

That's a 94% drop-off. And the brutal part vercel Analytics just showed me that they left. Not why. Not who was close to converting. Just: they left.

I started digging into what actually happens between "lands on page" and "leaves forever." Three things surprised me:

1. Most drop-offs happen in the first 30 seconds Visitors who scroll past 60% almost never leave without doing something clicking, hovering, filling a form. The ones who bounce fast were never going to convert anyway. The ones who scroll deep and still leave those are the ones I'm chasing.

2. One action doesn't fit all visitors Sending every hesitating visitor to a booking link is wrong. Someone who spent 1 minute reading the curriculum is different from someone who bounced after 10 seconds on the hero. They need different responses.

So I started building something to act on these signals automatically track scroll depth, hover time on CTAs, exit intent and trigger the right action for each type of visitor instead of blasting everyone with the same popup.

Early results from our own funnel: email capture rate went from 0% (we had nothing) to 11% of exit-intent visitors. Still small numbers but meaningful for a 2,600 visitor/month funnel.

Curious if anyone else has gone deep on this problem. What's worked for you on low-traffic landing pages specifically? Most conversion tools seem built for sites with 50K+ visitors/month.

(Full disclosure: I'm building a tool based on this. Happy to share the link in comments if relevant — not here to pitch, genuinely want to compare notes.)

I'm working on Embeddable Widget for Customer queries for SaaS landing pages and dashboards. But I missed the first step. Didn't validate the market demand.

I've 2 routes now. Either I go open source and release it as a Npm package or make SaaS offering out of it.

How do you guys enjoy the problem validation and finding early customers part?
Need advice

Sometimes I’ll have a valuable conversation with Chatgpt or Claude about coding, life decisions, startup ideas, etc...but once the chat gets long, I rarely ever read it again.

Feels like a lot of useful knowledge just disappears into chat history and deep fried tokens :(.

Wondering if this is common or just me.

Hii community,

Quick intro about me:
- IIT(2022) grad, 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Built and scaled products from 0 to 7.5M+ users in the Real Money Gaming industry
- Was a founding engineer on a 0→1 product that hit serious GMV in 6 months

- Tried building my own thing on the side while working full-time... it didn't work out, but I learned a lot(FMCG industry)

- Left my job last week to go all-in on building something of my own

If you're a founder with an idea and looking for a technical person / CTO, or just someone who likes talking startups, ideas, RMG, or 0→1 product building hit me up. Always down to connect.

I've been digging into this for a few weeks now. checked my server logs and nearly a third of requests were GPTBot, PerplexityBot, betterstack, metaAgent etc. GA showed none of it.

whats worse is theres no way to know if any of those crawls are turning into citations in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers. like your /pricing page could be getting recommended to thousands of people and you'd have no idea.

seems like a massive blind spot that nobody has built tooling for yet. AEO is still super early and tracking the traffic feels like the obvious first step before you can optimise anything.

curious if anyone else has run into this

Founder here trying to research in the AEO domain.
DM me to chat about if you want to work on this problem or just share insights.