This looks awesome!! Well done!!
Thanks Matt!
(very pumped that it's on HN's homepage :-)
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Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#22Posts saying "wow, coolest ever, bye" are about as constructive as posts saying "boo, shit". For what it's worth I think it's long overdue that there was a good way to produce actual websites for those who only have/use phones. As far as I can tell though, this is much more limited in scope.
Thanks Y_Y it is definitely quite limited at the moment, and intentionally so. We wanted to scope down to something we could pull together and launch as a team who'd never made an iOS app before and wanted to get out to market to validate before getting too excited about patting ourselves on the back.
Hopefully from here we can iterate to a bigger scope (without overblowing it :-)
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#23This is high quality product that produces high quality media and, most importantly, it is a breeze to use (proof: https://msha.ke/ronilan/ ) However, “Make Websites from a Phone” is an illusive target. I’ve had a startup circa 2013 with a somewhat similar focus. It got to a working MVP (sort of) and VC term-sheet before it imploded. All that’s left is this video ( https://vimeo.com/68029789 ). There have been multip…
Have you tried opening the page from a desktop browser? It's just stuck in a tiny phone-sized box..
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#24Honestly surprised there's a "need" for this. This is the kind of thing I would shoot down as a business idea, simply from the standpoint of - nobody needs that. I'm obviously wrong as there are successful examples like universe out there. But boy does it show me that I'm often completely detached from the consumer in these instances.
I mostly agree with you, but this part is what sells it to me
"Turn your link in bio into an Insta website."
I could see that catching up, though it would still of course be a limited audience.
And also that they did such a nice job with the design and the branding. Would be easier to be more critical if it didn't look that nice.
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#25I saw a talk of yours on side projects. It was pretty inspiring. Did you build this with those same principals?
Can you share the link? :)
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#26This is high quality product that produces high quality media and, most importantly, it is a breeze to use (proof: https://msha.ke/ronilan/ ) However, “Make Websites from a Phone” is an illusive target. I’ve had a startup circa 2013 with a somewhat similar focus. It got to a working MVP (sort of) and VC term-sheet before it imploded. All that’s left is this video ( https://vimeo.com/68029789 ). There have been multip…
Have you tried opening the page from a desktop browser? It's just stuck in a tiny phone-sized box..
:-) Yes that's intentional, we've started life completely focused on mobile and Instagram (which is broadly only used on mobile).
It means that we get to try to focus on making one experience strong. That said, ultimately the user is providing data which is independent of the look, so evolving a desktop variant is totally doable.
We're (currently) keen to not necessarily run towards traditional responsive design. The reason being that you have a lot of design consequences / unintentional visual limitations - it's one of the reasons a lot of websites kind of look the same, especially from website builders and tools (they go heavy on block layouts to make it easy to deal with responsive).
All that said, it's iteration 1, and our launch is really a 'beta' launch more than anything.
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#27I saw a talk of yours on side projects. It was pretty inspiring. Did you build this with those same principals?
Can you share the link? :)
Sure thing! It's at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwWEc4PhmJI
(14 views ... was a popular talk :-D
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#28Was hoping for a codeeditor with sftp but neat project for the masses.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried opening the page from a desktop browser? It's just stuck in a tiny phone-sized box..
:-) Yes that's intentional, we've started life completely focused on mobile and Instagram (which is broadly only used on mobile). It means that we get to try to focus on making one experience strong. That said, ultimately the user is providing data which is independent of the look, so evolving a desktop variant is totally doable. We're (currently) keen to not necessarily run towards traditional responsive design. The…
If you constrained the width to phone dimensions, but did not constrain the vertical space as much, it would keep similar flavor but be more appealing on non-mobile.
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
:-) Yes that's intentional, we've started life completely focused on mobile and Instagram (which is broadly only used on mobile). It means that we get to try to focus on making one experience strong. That said, ultimately the user is providing data which is independent of the look, so evolving a desktop variant is totally doable. We're (currently) keen to not necessarily run towards traditional responsive design. The…
If you constrained the width to phone dimensions, but did not constrain the vertical space as much, it would keep similar flavor but be more appealing on non-mobile.
Good thinking, and would enable us to keep ideas like 'stickers' that we've kicked around internally as fun future features (that are way less hard in a non-responsive environment)