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Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by airstrike »

chdaniel wrote: post #46

Wish you nothing but the best. Made an aggregator website in literally 10 clicks as I was on the toilet. Will share it on my story Just my $0.02 — $9/mo and it's a done deal... Later.com offers that linkin.bio which starts from their $19.90/mo plan (I use Buffer though for my agency's marketing contracts) This one's super lightweight, can probably be optimised (if it isn't already) to be even more lightweight. Fantas…

Assuming the target segment for this product really is "Instagram users who want a link in their bio" per someone else's comment in this thread, I'd price it

$1.99/mo for limited concurrent users / bandwidth $9.99/mo for premium with """unlimited""" users / bandwidth

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by Thinkx220 »

Liquidor wrote: post #18

From the Terms: "You must be 13 years or over to create a Milkshake account. If you are under 18 years of age, you will need the permission of a parent or legal guardian (who is at least 18 years of age) to create a Milkshake account." Seeing that Instagram only requires the age of 13, I wonder if teens will actually bother with permission from their parents/guardians to use Milkshake. Or is this something that will…

I think the terms of service is probably just written that way to avoid liability.

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by mtberatwork »

throwaway66666 wrote: post #24
rubicon33 wrote: post #15

Honestly surprised there's a "need" for this. This is the kind of thing I would shoot down as a business idea, simply from the standpoint of - nobody needs that. I'm obviously wrong as there are successful examples like universe out there. But boy does it show me that I'm often completely detached from the consumer in these instances.

I mostly agree with you, but this part is what sells it to me "Turn your link in bio into an Insta website." I could see that catching up, though it would still of course be a limited audience. And also that they did such a nice job with the design and the branding. Would be easier to be more critical if it didn't look that nice.

> Turn your link in bio into an Insta website.

What the heck does that even mean?

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by dvtrn »

collistaeed wrote: post #17
rubicon33 wrote: post #15

Honestly surprised there's a "need" for this. This is the kind of thing I would shoot down as a business idea, simply from the standpoint of - nobody needs that. I'm obviously wrong as there are successful examples like universe out there. But boy does it show me that I'm often completely detached from the consumer in these instances.

Fwiw I can remember a time when I was like "Why on earth would anyone want Squarespace when they can host their own site!?" These days I try to assume I probably don't understand! For the start of this product, we had a Design Sprint where we came up with the idea, and then brought in real Instagram users to test the idea on (with very lowfi prototypes) befor actually building!

These days I try to assume I probably don't understand!

We could learn so much more in life and have such better interactions if this were the default condition going into the unknown.

“Maybe there’s something here to be learned”

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by atupis »

collistaeed wrote: post #42
kevingrahl wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you have a lot of design consequences / unintentional visual limitations Would you mind elaborating on what you think those limitations are? I feel like it’s easy to say ‘nah we don’t do responsive’ instead of figuring out a way do just do it. I can’t come up with a single example that I couldn’t translate from mobile to desktop in some way.

Sorry, I didn't write that very well. I think the consequences are pragmatic ones. In order to achieve more complicated visual designs you have to do a lot more work to make them considerate of all the different situations they might appear in. So pragmatically you either make less designs, or you limit the designs to simpler to scale paradigms (like block layouts) which require less pre-consideration. As the foundat…

How about if you flip phone vertically app user can see what tablets and computers see.

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by rohan1024 »

hyperpallium wrote: post #59

\tangent Can you serve a website from your phone? My mobile data provider seems to block incoming packets... (but I can receive if initiated from my phone (as in ftp), so maybe it's just that my IP address isn't known?) I couldn't work it out.

Yes you can. You might be behind NAT what this means is your public IP address is being shared with 100s of other users so for the outside world there's no way to reach you.

If you are on IPV6 you most probably will have public unique IP and should be able to access a website hosted on phone without any issue. ISP might not be explicitly blocking incoming packets. NAT was a necessary evil that we needed when we had limited address space. We should move to Ipv6 as early as possible and kill NAT. I think that will open up tonne of opportunities.

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by xeromal »

mtberatwork wrote: post #64
throwaway66666 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mostly agree with you, but this part is what sells it to me "Turn your link in bio into an Insta website." I could see that catching up, though it would still of course be a limited audience. And also that they did such a nice job with the design and the branding. Would be easier to be more critical if it didn't look that nice.

> Turn your link in bio into an Insta website. What the heck does that even mean?

It means your old. :P

Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

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Post by nickloewen »

mtberatwork wrote: post #64
throwaway66666 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mostly agree with you, but this part is what sells it to me "Turn your link in bio into an Insta website." I could see that catching up, though it would still of course be a limited audience. And also that they did such a nice job with the design and the branding. Would be easier to be more critical if it didn't look that nice.

> Turn your link in bio into an Insta website. What the heck does that even mean?

I think: Instagram doesn’t allow links in image comments/captions, but does allow a link on your bio/profile page. So people end up sharing links by setting their profile link, and then commenting “link in bio.”

So the pitch here is, I think—make a full website to accompany your instagram posts, just as easily as you posted the photo itself.

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