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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 mgkimsal »

teleclimber wrote: post #52
shostack wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I disagree that people "won't notice". They totally do. The other day my gf (medical field professional, not a "techie") was looking for a good restaurant to go to and, completely unprompted by me, blurted out "OMG why does every freaking restaurant website look the same!?!" (she couldn't keep track of which restaurant was which among her open tabs.) I think more people notice than we'd like to admit. There just isn'…

Maybe it was the same (overused) restaurant wordpress theme that has nothing to do with Bootstrap? Sites looking similar was an 'issue' well before Bootstrap.

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

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Post by zem »

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.

@insulinrocks you appear to be shadowbanned

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

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Post by imh »

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…

You know, I have no idea how to make stuff more accessible. If you don't mind, could you tell us about how you browse the web, so others like me can make our content more universally accessible? Any recommended resources for that kind of design?

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

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Post by codingdave »

Once I figured out what was going on, I liked it. But at first, I thought you were really trying to sell me domains the whole time. I thought it was a big marketing page for a hosting/domain service, and did not realize it was actually all editable. You really need to make it clear what is going on if you want to open this to a larger audience.
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