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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 blauditore »

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…

I'm not sure, are you now looking for something that does more or less than Bootstrap?

While Bootstrap isn't a silver bullet in general, it's surely great if you don't want to write CSS, or only where necessary. And you can always build on top of that.

And needless to say, tastes vary wildly: I once started a side project with someone who was virtually my taste counterpart - he liked everything I found ugly and vice versa. So maybe you should get a second opinion on your designs... :P

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

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Post by cameronrohani »

ndarilek wrote: post #33
cameronrohani wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bigg…

I recently read a really great book about issues similar to this called "politics of design". Making things more accessible to everyone honestly really excites me. I hope that every time I ever make something I get called out on all of it's accessibility flaws. So thank you for bringing it to light :)

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

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

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…

Have you considered Bootswatch?

https://bootswatch.com/

It's a light set of styles that are applied over top of standard Bootstrap. If you buy a full "Theme" from Envato or where ever, even it's "Bootstrap Based" it is generally so stuffed full of random js libs and heavily customized that it's hard to work with.

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

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Post by shostack »

Really fantastic UI. And I LOVE party parrot at the end. Made me smile.

Depending on your target audience, I'd love to see some tooling to help with a signup form. Maybe offer some integration options (and an affiliate link) for Mailchimp or something else?

I'd also love the ability to easily create multiple pages linked to each other within the app. Sure I can create separate pages, but would be nice to have that done for me and add some basic organization.

Overall this is really awesome. Would love to know more about what technology you used to build this, why you built it, and what your future product/monetization plans are.

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

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Post by drew-y »

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.

Thanks for the clarification! I'd definitely be interested in the source if it were available. Elm looks promising to me and it'd be neat to check out how it was used here.

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

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Post by enraged_camel »

shostack wrote: post #46

Really fantastic UI. And I LOVE party parrot at the end. Made me smile. Depending on your target audience, I'd love to see some tooling to help with a signup form. Maybe offer some integration options (and an affiliate link) for Mailchimp or something else? I'd also love the ability to easily create multiple pages linked to each other within the app. Sure I can create separate pages, but would be nice to have that do…

>>Really fantastic UI. And I LOVE party parrot at the end. Made me smile.

Agreed. Really nice touch.

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

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Post by nedwin »

cameronrohani wrote: post #24
nedwin wrote: post #20

Looks awesome. Have reviewed a ton of website builders and this is one of the easier ones. Only problem is when I hit the download button the .txt file is blank.

That is indeed a big problem, we're deploying some changes atm that should hopefully fix this. Sorry about that.

Would love to see the conversion rate from visit to creat, visit to download and visit to provide email. I suspect you're going to have a super high email capture conversion because of the value you're giving up front.

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

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Post by creeble »

pbrumm wrote: post #43

Very interesting. I did loose track of the 4 steps and was confused on how to finish the project.

Something like that myself. I wasn't quite sure I believed the page was dynamically updating at first.

This is, like, crazy great anyway. I'm freaked.

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