I love the concept, and I was having a lot of fun building my first page; however, I had to restart my computer after adding about half a dozen page elements, and all my progress was lost. It'd be great if work was saved as it was edited on the page.
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#92I love this app's approach to responsive design: just show the "safe" area and let people throw elements where ever. So liberating.
Eh, as a desktop user it sucks to still get the same patronising and space-wasting mobile design.
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#93Really cool stuff, here is my microsite i made for the music i made that i uploaded to youtube: https://mmm.page/danstar.main
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#94> Websites shouldn't all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect. I really like the design aesthethic this product encourages. There's so much charm and fun and eccentricity that's lost in a web where full-height responsive image backgrounds and blocky design frameworks are ubiquitous. If this can help people express just a little bit of the wild creativity of things like early 2000's MySpace layout…
Is there a way to ...see this design aesthetic outside their main page?
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#95I played for a few minutes, and when I refreshed my page my entire progress was lost.
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#96I hate making a new login that I have to remember for things I might not even use. It would be nice if you could create the website first , then only sign up if you liked it and wanted to save it. This stops me from testing cool looking projects like this all the time :( EDIT: that being said, I love that you can edit the landing page itself, that at least gives me some idea of how it works, although then if I turn i…
So I think this is an excellent point. I'd love to do something like that for my product as well.
However, there are a few considerations, some of bigger consequence than others:
- How do you keep users from losing their data when they leave and come back? Cookies with an ID are a brittle solution. You could have a unique link, where the user's work is saved right up until they want to register
- How do you deal with the inevitable onslaught of people using an open system? If you're bootstrapping like me, I don't think I could possibly handle the influx of an HN frontpage's worth of people simultaneously hammering the system
- When do you clean house? You won't necessarily know whether someone wants to build a site, disappear for a month and then come back to it. Feels unlikely, but it's still possible.
All of this would be solved by having (at the very least) a quick email-only signup, which auto-generates a password and a welcome email, but also takes you straight into the system. It's a small barrier to entry, but perhaps one that's worth putting in place to avoid hammering the server(s) too much?
What do you think of video content showing off the system, could that help as a sort of interim solution?
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#97Great stuff! love the idea, design and animations are slick! Everything is so simple and smooth!
A few things that come to my mind if you'd like to continue developing this project:
- if a user enters a link to a subpage owned by the same user I think there shouldn't be a `target="_blank"`
- maybe add a button to disable the layout red lines tips as it could get annoying when you have lots of overlapped objects, although it might be an edge case [1]
- one minor advice is some folks are probably going to complain about collection of the user emails for the sign-up so I'd suggest making some privacy policy just to be transparent.
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#98Too fun! https://mmm.page/kicks.condor Anyone else making a page out there?
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#99I found it unusable on Firefox 81 (including with No addons). Clicks don't work at all - seems to work fine on Chromium. I suggest testing on a broader range of browsers. Edit: It's just my version, not an issue with the site.
Sorry haven't been good @ replying, but just fixed this bug!
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#100Too fun! https://mmm.page/kicks.condor Anyone else making a page out there?