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Quoted from PinMonk:When are you going to update your website? It's still talking all over the place like 2015 hasn't happened.
Someone has apparently updated it in the last month to add a Stripe online payment system to the homepage which seems rather strange considering by admission nothing is sold direct through the site.
Snapshot as at 3 Dec 2016.
https://web.archive.org/web/20161203123059/http://homepin.com/
Quoted from PinMonk:Look, I don't care at all what you do. I'm just offering some perspective from outside your head, i.e. your website looks like crap and hasn't been updated in a meaningful way in like 2 years, which isn't a good reflection on your company.
And if you don't have enough time (less than 10 minutes, probably more like 3-4 in reality) money ($20 if you're paying someone, or free if you do it yourself), or effort (almost none), to replace what's there with a single splash page with a redirect, then your company has much larger problems, and you have my condolences.
I'm sure someone here would VOLUNTEER to fix your site so it was just a splash page that redirected to your social media page(s). There really is no viable excuse.
Agreed.
The home webpage is also the first link in a google search for the product itself.
As a pinball manufacturer which has yet to release their first iteration, most potential buyers are going to click that home page search link to obtain easy to access information on future product, rather than navigating through a facebook feed.
All the pertinent information really needs to be added to the home page to establish top of mind salience and to engage with potential customers at a direct level.
Quoted from frolic:For at least one of them.
You see there was the problem from the start - there weren't enough microwave ovens. 
Quoted from PopBumperPete:Yeah, Mike is a backwater hick and does not know what he is doing
He sold me on TAG on his reputation alone
Well there are certainly Luddite-esque tendencies as the 1997 era website alludes to both in layout and content.
The parallels between the two particularly the dogmatism of the followers acting as defacto spokespersons in perpetuity are uncanny. 
Quoted from Homepin:I update my progress here on Pinside, the Homepin Facebook page (as much as I also dislike FB) and on Aussie Arcade usually at least once a week. Very often I can't access FB or use an FTP program to access my website so I am taking the path of least resistance about this - otherwise it would be NO updates at all.
I do so because it is mostly quick, easy and painless and keeps people up to date with progress.
To do this with a website requires a lot more of my time and effort that I simply cannot spare right now. I can't stress enough that we are on a shoestring budget for manpower and money. I expend resources where I see they are best spent and the Homepin website (and several others of mine) currently are NOT a priority and therefore are not getting any attention, for now.
If it wasn't my website someone would find something else to bitch about like the colour of my car or "why does that Homepin idiot get to work 15 mins late EVERY DAY? He should work 24 hours a day?"
I have asked for an intern to help out but only had people wasting my time but for those playing at home this page might be interesting:
http://homepin.com/intern.html
Now can we drop this obsession with my website and get back to the OP's question please.
I think you are missing the point that a few of us have made in this thread in that the website is the first point of interface for any potential customer undertaking a google search and at first instance it looks as if the site hasn't been updated since 2015 which doesn't instil a great deal of confidence at least from a cursory level.
Now that clearly isn't the case since "someone" has added the Stripe online payment system to the front page in the last 5 weeks for whatever reason so whoever has done that could easily add updated information as to current progress with minimal effort, cost and time.
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