Sorry, but where is the value on this project? Only 2 screens, one that has your profile photo and some description with a style on it and another screen with the same link to go back to Instagram. I find this surprisingly useless but I wish you luck on your project, i hope to be wrong.
Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
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Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#42Earlier 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…
> you have a lot of design consequences / unintentional visual limitations Would you mind elaborating on what you think those limitations are? I feel like it’s easy to say ‘nah we don’t do responsive’ instead of figuring out a way do just do it. I can’t come up with a single example that I couldn’t translate from mobile to desktop in some way.
Sorry, I didn't write that very well. I think the consequences are pragmatic ones. In order to achieve more complicated visual designs you have to do a lot more work to make them considerate of all the different situations they might appear in. So pragmatically you either make less designs, or you limit the designs to simpler to scale paradigms (like block layouts) which require less pre-consideration.
As the foundation of this app is the idea that a user can just switch layout/visuals, it needs a lot of visual looks to switch between. Doing a lot of those, and having the responsiveness, and then iterating on app/data model features (which need updates to those designs) is quite a drain on speed.
All that said, since you asked for a single _actual_ example, I have one which I think is quite problematic (though could be addressed in some way, just not easily). We've kicked around the idea of letting users place stickers over the top of their design in order to customise them (a little like Instagram Stories), it's not obvious how to migrate a user input visual through a responsive set of designs without a lot of trouble (the most obvious solution being to guess and then let the user tweak at different responsive breaks).
Hopefully that convinces you that it wasn't just a throwaway 'nah we don't do responsive' :) I'm sure we could do better than where we currently are, and it is an iteration one release!
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#43It's free. What's the business model?
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#44From the Terms: "You must be 13 years or over to create a Milkshake account. If you are under 18 years of age, you will need the permission of a parent or legal guardian (who is at least 18 years of age) to create a Milkshake account." Seeing that Instagram only requires the age of 13, I wonder if teens will actually bother with permission from their parents/guardians to use Milkshake. Or is this something that will…
>Seeing that Instagram only requires the age of 13,
That sounds wrong though
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#45No example sites to browse on mobile, other than a video (?)
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#46Wish you nothing but the best. Made an aggregator website in literally 10 clicks as I was on the toilet. Will share it on my story
Just my $0.02 — $9/mo and it's a done deal... Later.com offers that linkin.bio which starts from their $19.90/mo plan (I use Buffer though for my agency's marketing contracts)
This one's super lightweight, can probably be optimised (if it isn't already) to be even more lightweight. Fantastic. Join us at Reddit.com/r/saas (I'm a moderator there) and tell us the story — anything u need, let me know
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#47Milkshake as a product and company looks well executed.
However, I wonder if these website builders are a fallacy. If you make money with your business get a team building your custom site, if not just put your opening times right on Google Business without having a website. A half-baken website also done with a builder is still work and if nobody drives by, why the hassle?
And most builders I know still have subpar mobile responsiveness. How is Milkshake in this regard? Are there any examples?
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
@paid extras: analytics! People love their likes and views, at a modest price it would be an easy sell. PS: Super cool app and execution
Yes! And I think there's some interesting experimentation to be done between 'integrate Google Analytics' versus, make a really dead simple analytics / stats tool. I'm used to GA so assume people understand it, but it's actually quite a confusing thing if you step back and assume you know nothing about how the internet plumbing works :)
I would pay to have "made with - milkshake" removed. Maybe $5 maximum but, yep.
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#49From the Terms: "You must be 13 years or over to create a Milkshake account. If you are under 18 years of age, you will need the permission of a parent or legal guardian (who is at least 18 years of age) to create a Milkshake account." Seeing that Instagram only requires the age of 13, I wonder if teens will actually bother with permission from their parents/guardians to use Milkshake. Or is this something that will…
>Seeing that Instagram only requires the age of 13, That sounds wrong though
> >Seeing that Instagram only requires the age of 13,
> That sounds wrong though
In what way?
Re: Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone
#50Where do you host the generated web site?