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Show HN: Synesthesia – Visual Website Builder

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Post by Diego-Little » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 2:00 AM UTC

Synesthesia is a platform that allows you to create create, customize, and publish your own website. It allows you to select free templates to get started, it has a drag and drop editor to customize the website to your liking, and it publishes and hosts your newly created website. You can also view website analytics and upload content to update your website.

I would love to hear any feedback on the project.

Show HN: Synesthesia – Visual Website Builder
synesthesia.ai

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#2

Post by joak » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 3:28 AM UTC

Server down rn

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#3

Post by Reubend » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 3:29 AM UTC

Hey there, the server seems to be down for me.

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Post by Diego-Little » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 3:42 AM UTC

Reubend wrote: post #3

Hey there, the server seems to be down for me.

Hey, thanks for letting me know, I'm looking into it

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#5

Post by ipnon » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:15 AM UTC

What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?

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#6

Post by jeremycarter » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:52 AM UTC

ipnon wrote: post #5

What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?

I'm looking to show HN my project next month and would love to know a good strategy to avoid the hug of death.

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#7

Post by ramesh31 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:57 AM UTC

jeremycarter wrote: post #6

ipnon wrote: post #5

What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?

I'm looking to show HN my project next month and would love to know a good strategy to avoid the hug of death.

>I'm looking to show HN my project next month and would love to know a good strategy to avoid the hug of death.

Cloudflare. There's no reason for a landing page to ever hit an app server.

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Post by yawnxyz » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

ipnon wrote: post #5

What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?

Is there a way to simulate a hug of death? Are there any tools or services for that? Seems like they're using Cloudflare, but maybe needs an active server connection to use the product.

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Post by bradgessler » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 5:32 AM UTC

ipnon wrote: post #5

What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?

Put up a static page with a video that shows how it works. Explain on that page that the HN hug of death took it down and ask people to give you their email so you can contact them when you're back up.

Oh also, don't feel stupid about this. I've done dumber things, like not knowing what ulimit was for a few months while chasing down all sorts of other rabbits that lead to nowhere. Crashing because too many people want to use your software is the best problem you could ever wish to have.

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Post by bradgessler » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 5:39 AM UTC

jeremycarter wrote: post #6

ipnon wrote: post #5

What should one do to get past the HN Hug of Death on launch day?

I'm looking to show HN my project next month and would love to know a good strategy to avoid the hug of death.

Have a static page on standby and point it to something to collect email addresses. Don't spend too much time beyond that and any other basics you know of, like DB indices, etc.

The worst thing you can do is delay the launch of the project to work on scaling.