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

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Post by nathan_f77 » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 8:07 AM UTC

pqdbr wrote: post #57

Could you please make it possible to add more than one social template and more than one footer template, just like you do with the feature blocks?

After you download the generated HTML, you can just copy/paste.

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

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Post by nathan_f77 » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 8:09 AM UTC

Mgardepe wrote: post #61

Reason I'm not getting into web development.

This is not web development. This is throwing up a static landing page while you build your actual web application.

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

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Post by minhajuddin » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 8:16 AM UTC

Shameless plug, I made something related which makes testing out public static sites pretty easy. You can check it out at https://slugex.com/ It also allows you to deploy via the terminal. All you need is bash and curl :)

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

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Post by cocoflunchy » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 8:42 AM UTC

dbg31415 wrote: post #89

dbg31415 wrote: post #37

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 ad…

Found 2 minor bugs between the builder and the downloaded version: Body Styles break with multiple paragraphs - http://imgur.com/YOjjGkB Emoji break when you change them - http://imgur.com/FE8VUgH

The emoji bug is an encoding issue, add

to the generated html to fix it (and fix any accented characters issues too)

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

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Post by arrmn » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 9:05 AM UTC

blunte wrote: post #150

I'm pretty used to being different from most people, but I'm not used to being so utterly different from the hackernews crowd as I feel right now. Am I seeing a different website than everyone is talking about? All I see is a bunch of different boxes with links, where most links just shove me to some external service (GoDaddy, Twitter, Google Fonts, etc.) Where's the "website builder"?

Next to their logo at top you can either click at "name your business" or "build your website". I was also confused at first

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

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Post by Warp__ » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 9:07 AM UTC

Very Cool. Thank you. Will sign up :)

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 9:11 AM UTC

shostack wrote: post #38

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"?

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

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Post by tooFastFuckYou » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 9:13 AM UTC

btcboss wrote: post #102

T H I S I S E P I C !!!!!

Modded down.

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

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Post by nodesocket » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 9:33 AM UTC

Awesome job! It would be great if you added a pricing feature block.

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

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Post by annnnd » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 9:42 AM UTC

Now THIS is how it should be done! Congrats to author! Where can we pay you? :)

This hits a sweet spot for me because I am in full control of HTML if I want it, but I can still put together a responsive page in literally a minute.

About missing colors and stuff - yeah, it would be nice if we could select background images, set more colors and similar, but that's secondary. Building a responsive skeleton is what this tool does for me, and first impression is great. Kudos!