How do you proceed if your business isn't found in the autocomplete?
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#42How do you proceed if your business isn't found in the autocomplete?
I tried it. It still works, looks like you’ll have to provide more info though
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For example we'll show a menu first to a visitor who is likely hungry. How would you possibly know this?
I’m guessing visits around 12PM and around 7PM
So people out of those hours looking to book something for the evening are not interested in the menu?
I thought office 2003 learned us just how miserable these optimizations are, a consistent experience is always better.
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#44How do you verify that it is exactly business owner who's trying to create website? Ease of generation almost invites pranks, and maybe even fraud. IANAL, but I strongly suspect you'll got sued at some point for damages caused by a fake website.
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#45How do you verify that it is exactly business owner who's trying to create website? Ease of generation almost invites pranks, and maybe even fraud. IANAL, but I strongly suspect you'll got sued at some point for damages caused by a fake website.
In their defense, anyone could buy a domain name of any unclaimed business' today and setup a website and email accounts.
SourceryApp does pre-populate the phone number attained from Google Maps for auth but that remains editable, currently. I believe the problem of fake websites will bite them if they get anywhere as popular as Twitter, but they don't have to worry abt that, right now, imo.
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#46While the concept is sound, I do hope that you will allow users of your service to 'detach' at some point to make their sites into something more complex. Working around Website as a Service limitations is a tremendously tedious haul. I have worked with a Shopify project for a few months now and having to either write or pay for (via an app) functionality that has existed on any self hosted e-commerce for years is really annoying. Not being able to modify backend code impedes development speed as you try to hack around the backend's deficiencies with Liquid. I didn't want this post to be this long but I just wanted to give my experience on this kind of subject and I hope you take appropiate measures to save your customers from dealing with similar issues.
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#47So basically you're taking all the content under a Google Business Listing and flattening it out. It's slick but nothing crazy.
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#48Since Google Places API doesn't allow storing any data, are you just footing the bill for the site to be "re-created" every time a user visits it?
You're offering this for free, which is great, but I'm not sure how this works out financially.
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#49From 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
Thanks for the remark. This simply makes sure we have your permission to use the content you send us to generate and host the website you're asking us to create.
Is the "irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable" really necessary for this?
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#50It’s slightly sad that the internet is turning into a bunch of sites that are all based on the same templates. Don’t we need more website builders that are open and creative by design? I understand not everyone has the time to learn how to write html but we should at least be building tools to make websites more interesting and distinct.