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Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#31

Post by mlthoughts2018 » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 3:09 AM UTC

My business doesn’t come up in the autocomplete and there’s no category for the type of business. There’s no free text field for me to enter my business type and if I choose fixed categories from the list, none of the imagery in the generated sites looks passable.

I don’t understand what functionality this offers that GoDaddy GoCentral doesn’t have? Why do I care if it happens in 5 seconds if the result doesn’t feel tailored to me or quality?

I can’t help but feel like it’s a bargain basement ripoff of a hodge podge of ideas already in the market from Squarespace and GoCentral.

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#32

Post by cbhl » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 3:33 AM UTC

Tried a few restaurants in my area.

RT Rotisserie in San Francisco yields an error: {"message":"Cannot return null for non-nullable field Entity.phone."}

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#33

Post by jjeaff » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 3:51 AM UTC

dakoondog wrote: post #18

From the terms of service... “ In other words, you grant us and our subsidiaries affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media.” lol nope

And how would you expect them to host your website content with the right to publish it?

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#34

Post by njsubedi » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

Please check the designs on Firefox on Android. Doesn't work properly.

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#35

Post by dang » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 5:20 AM UTC

itwy wrote: post #25

The next step would be to create robot to consume the automatically created website. I hope the project fails miserably.

Hey, can you please not break the site rules like this? We're trying for a bit better kind of internet discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#36

Post by jarnoux » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 5:24 AM UTC

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #31

My business doesn’t come up in the autocomplete and there’s no category for the type of business. There’s no free text field for me to enter my business type and if I choose fixed categories from the list, none of the imagery in the generated sites looks passable. I don’t understand what functionality this offers that GoDaddy GoCentral doesn’t have? Why do I care if it happens in 5 seconds if the result doesn’t feel…

That's fair, Squarespace has a use case. Sourcery is opinionated and not a freestyle tool - we are building websites that you don't have to design, build or update and that lets us offer features that aren't possible in DIY site builders.

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#37

Post by jarnoux » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 5:25 AM UTC

lexicality wrote: post #2

I tried a couple of companies but I just get a blank page and a bunch of JS errors in the console :/

should be fixed now

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#38

Post by coolandsmartrr » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 5:28 AM UTC

Just a head's up to the site admin that browsers may disable autoplay on video, resulting in a blank box next to the "How it works" paragraphs.

You can enable autoplay by including a `mute` attribute in the tag.

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#39

Post by thewarpaint » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 6:19 AM UTC

I got this error message while trying to generate a website:

{"message":"Cannot return null for non-nullable field Entity.phone."}

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

#40

Post by reilly3000 » Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 6:35 AM UTC

I think this is pretty brilliant. I offer a word of warning: SMBs are a tough crowd to sell to. Even with a 100% turnkey offering, they are a remarkably vocal, high-maintenance group as a whole. The idea of the external web, the social web as a CMS has lots of implications in enterprise as well. Don't let SMBs sour your love for your business.