Did you forget the most important on your page? Where's the button create my own page? How can I test your product? Is your product scam?
Maybe click the big button that says "Try LonelyPage now!" ?
Otherwise I'm afraid it's scam, you got me.
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#122Couldn’t figure out how to sign up
There's a button in the upper right corner that says "Save page". Click it, and you will sign up and save your page at the same time.
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#123Great start! Now if I were to give you one piece of advice I would say, find a niche or a couple of niche industries that have specific needs and sell to them. This can be anything from setting up an event and taking payment for it to creating a local sports group.
Thanks, that's some good advice, I definitely believe in finding niche groups as well. Often, it's not the ones you think of initially.
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#124no drag n drop?
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#126I 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 building an API right now that I plan on monetizing so I'm looking at different simple CMS programs. This one (LonelyPage) immediately intrigued me because I don't need a lot of features. Basically people can pick a pricing plan and pay through Stripe. No portal is needed for now really other than to see their API key. I'm not a frontend web guy at all so I'm trying to avoid doing as much of that work as possible…
I have been working on daptin [1] with similar goals (self-hosted being the top priority). It is not just a static file host and actually exposes APIs which can be used in the static sites.
For customizations, I have built "Actions" which can basically do anything (to the extent of executing javascript or call external apis) and as for themes, you can upload any static site/design/template (be it vue or react or hugo).
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Templates? If it's just one page, just download the HTML.
it may or may not be one page - however, that is a pretty fundamental question you ask about static site generators. Why use them, when you can use plain html ? Well, its because they come with nice features like componentized layouts and templates, optimized build (including minification of any js, etc) and most importantly content in markdown/yaml for easy editing.
For me, the reason to use templates is so that the navigation, header, footer, etc. is internally-consistent without O(n) human effort.
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#128I 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…
> Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace...do I would intuitively estimate that about 15% of educational youtube videos are sponsored by Squarespace.
In Australia, Squarespace is running ads maybe 5 times a night with Keanu Reeves. And that's on one channel I've noticed. Must be a huge budget.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m order to square these requirements, they would just have to use your browsing data to target you with the version of the instructional video which always plays relevant ads to you
From what I understand (someone correct me if I'm wrong), the selection of ads that play on an individual YouTube video aren't actually affected at all by which video you're watching—only YouTube's understanding of you built up over all the videos you've watched so far.
The sponsorships are part of the video. They are targeted only by video.
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#130I 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.
It's worth considering that Carrd didn't start from 0. He had a pretty big following already from his work that has overlap with the type of user that Carrd wants. Having momentum from the start can be huge for this kind of service.