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Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by insulinrocks »

marclave wrote: post #9
drew-y wrote: post #6

Nice! Really easy to use and the templates look great. One question though: > Launchaco website builder is licensed under CC0 Does that mean both the website builder itself and the website you build with it are CC0? And is the source to the builder available anywhere?

Apologies, copy isn't clear there - will deploy a change. The website you download is licensed under cc0, however if there's interest we wouldn't mind open sourcing our builder. It's written in Elm, & go.

I personally would love to run this on a local server to fiddle around with. It is seriously fun, and looks like a great fit for a total newbie like me that just wants to mess around.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by ndarilek »

cameronrohani wrote: post #23
ndarilek wrote: post #19

This is interesting. I'm blind, and while I can think of ideas for products/side projects, designing a nice-looking website is such a huge momentum-killer. I mean, I know that I could just focus on features, keep the site design simple, and build a good design later. Then I visit , and half the comments are about how some UI element or other breaks on some combination of browser or other, and the last thing I want is…

Thank you for this enlightening comment, and apologies that our website isn't more accessible. We'll be looking in to this through out the day and will try to add some better html to accommodate for anyone who may be in a similar boat to you. I'm really sorry we didn't think about this stuff up front, and will do my best to from here on out.

No worries, I get that we're probably not a demographic you've considered, and like I said, I don't even know if in the end this tool will work for me.

To give you an idea of what I'm thinking of, I've looked into https://github.com/dennybritz/neal-react (unfortunately the hosted demo appears to no longer be up.) I'm sure this will bring out the "JavaScript shouldn't be abused like this!" haters, and I'm not the biggest React fan, but I like that I can position a few high-level components without having to think "I need 2 divs, one that's a panel, one that's X width and another 12-X, etc." Granted, I've never built anything with this React library and don't even know if it looks good, but it's closest to what I want in a page design system. Just give me a few high-level blocks that are responsive and look good, and I'll go from there.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by reacharavindh »

Very efficiently done!

Love that you didn't force me with any annoying pop-ups or interfering spaces to ask for email. I gave you anyway, with my 100% will.

Looking forward to your finished product. My girlfriend wants to build a Yoga website to put in all her stuff and promote her private lessons. I was going to build it myself, but your product is so intuitive that I might give her this and ask her to build it herself!

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by shostack »

jwcrux wrote: post #25

This is fantastic. One argument people will make (just like they did with Bootstrap) is that if every product used something like this, all the webpages would look the same. To be honest, if all product webpages looked like this, I'd be quite alright with it, because this look great. Well done!

And the reality is that despite this, the vast majority of people have no idea what Bootstrap is, won't notice, and frankly wouldn't care. Increasingly site design is differentiated by the imagery used as images get elevated in prominence, and that is all you need to differentiate your design many times.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by dbg31415 »

Really well done. Few quick questions...

Why not use an off-the-shelf grid system like Bootstrap or Foundation? Would probably make this easier to edit / extend for people already familiar with those layout frameworks.

For SEO... things like Page Title, Meta Description, OG/Sharing Meta Data... those would be good to add somehow. "Click here to add your fav icon / bookmark icon / social share icon / etc." At least adding them as empty fields so people know to add them in manually...

Could you add in semantic elements? Wouldn't take long to add those to the base template... http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp

Really nice tool, can see a lot of people getting use out of this.

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by shostack »

soneca wrote: post #27

Asking for my email after letting me download my template?? I'm not sure if it is the most effective way to collect emails, but it sure is a good UX. As a reward, I included my email :)

Maybe a candidate for a yet-to-be-built "lightpatterns.org"?

Re: Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

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Post by Abundnce10 »

marclave wrote: post #18
aaronm14 wrote: post #15

Really awesome. Surprised by how much time I spent on there. I noticed when I tried to download it in Safari, it didn't work because I don't think fetch is supported. Would have been good to get a notice about that earlier on. Would also be nice to see what exactly the download button is going to provide (just a zip of HTML/css/JS files I assume?) Thanks for sharing, will probably come back to this. Happy to sign up…

Apologies, deploying fix asap!

Love the builder feature! I, too, had a problem downloading in Firefox. It worked fine in Chrome though.
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