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Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

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Post by teleclimber »

peterpan31 wrote: post #39

I don't want this to be intended as harsh criticism of your idea, but let me share my experience with website builders: - The market is extremely tough. Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace and Wix do. The reason being that these pages typically have small businesses as customers. The issue with these type of businesses is that they go away quickly. Most don't survive 6 months. So you need new customer…

Counterpoint: a similar service called Carrd.co is doing encouragingly well for its sole developer.

https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/971417263969579008

This market is huge. If you can carve out a niche somehow you can do fine and not everybody needs to become the next SquareSpace.

Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

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Post by gupir »

kristerv wrote: post #89

Cool site. If it'll go down anything like my own you'll get 30'000 views and like 3 buys, but no recurring revenue. You may be interested to read my experience: http://code.krister.ee/mybest-project-so-far-shutting-it-dow... Don't think twice about contacting me :)

It seems an interesting project. Don't you think you ditched it too early? There weren't many functionalities, but the premise I think was pretty cool. BTW, I am about to launch a website builder myself and your post is a nice read. Thanks

Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

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Post by edpichler »

peterpan31 wrote: post #39

I don't want this to be intended as harsh criticism of your idea, but let me share my experience with website builders: - The market is extremely tough. Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace and Wix do. The reason being that these pages typically have small businesses as customers. The issue with these type of businesses is that they go away quickly. Most don't survive 6 months. So you need new customer…

Good critic, well done.

Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

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Post by howitworks »

billmalarky wrote: post #76
howitworks wrote: post #67

You should let the user go through the entire process of creating the page before you ask for money. Then they have the extra desire of wanting their finished thing. (I started building a site and put in a form, only to be told that was a paid thing. Closed the whole thing and immediately came to write this.)

Logojoy does this. It's incredibly effective I imagine.

They're the ones that gave me the example. It's perfect.

Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

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Post by Cub3 »

awill wrote: post #15

I get that this is easy, but there are 2 main cons: 1. It is $4 a month (that's a lot for a really a simple static page) 2. Vendor lock-in. These sites come and go and might not be around in a couple of years. This is why I recommend Hugo hosted on netlify. Sure, it has a learning curve (but plenty of open source themes make it fairly easy). Hugo spits out plain HTML so there is no lock-in, and netlify hosts for free…

I'm using Gatsby (ReactJS static site builder) with Netlify + Netlify CMS for my blog, going to start doing all client websites in this way as it's easy to set up and the interface is super simple for editing, best of all the whole thing is free.

Open source here: https://github.com/csi-lk/csi.lk

Blog link: https://csi.lk

Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

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Post by qplex »

superasn wrote: post #77
F_r_k wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe activate js ?

I haven't disabled JS neither do i have any extension besides uBlock origin that would change the DOM. Am I the only one having this problem? Because except this website I don't have trouble browsing any other. P.S: I'm using Chrome Version 64.0.3282.186 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I also get a rather empty page on Firefox. Running uBlock Origin, but I've disabled JavaScript too.

Reading this far to comments I've gathered it's some sort of landing page generator?

I wish people would at least include a short description that one could read.

Too many submission to HN just land you on an empty page if you don't feel like executing their JS. I wish they would just put an accurate description to the submission as well.

I usually just skip and move on but I guess the address was enough to poke additional interest this time around.

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