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

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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.

I think GoCentral already does this: autogenerated single page sites where the imagery & text are dynamically generated based on a small number of user-made choices at sign-up.

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

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post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am already aware of that, but why should I have to for basic features? If you need reviews for products, you will need an app developed by Shopify (but for some reason not integrated into their main product - what the hell?) which doesn't interoperate properly with any multi-language app (again, which shouldn't even be an app, as multi-language is a core part of many e-commerce applications) since it generates HTML…

If you write code for companies that go out of business because A. many customers are dying because of the incautiously produced and sold products they sell or B. lawyers kick out of business before any real damage will be done, you are not a prospective Shopify user and don't benefit from the well-maintained application architecture which benefits from the prospects of separation of concern and distributed, or more…

Sorry, what? Are you implying that companies I write code for go out of business? Why do you think that? >well-maintained application architecture Tsk tsk. >WooCommerce Hell I have never experienced this. Can you elaborate?

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

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great project. But why? Do you intend to out-compete wix/etc?

This is a significant piece of work, effort, and skill. I feel so bewildered some times. Maybe i am just too focused on end-result and revenues.

p.s. yes, i am working on my own startup. yes, i am a developer not a manager. yes, i do get sidetracked into side projects

p.s.s. i love the pay-pal integration

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

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post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you write code for companies that go out of business because A. many customers are dying because of the incautiously produced and sold products they sell or B. lawyers kick out of business before any real damage will be done, you are not a prospective Shopify user and don't benefit from the well-maintained application architecture which benefits from the prospects of separation of concern and distributed, or more…

Sorry, what? Are you implying that companies I write code for go out of business? Why do you think that? >well-maintained application architecture Tsk tsk. >WooCommerce Hell I have never experienced this. Can you elaborate?

No, I can't. Sorry. Maybe I can, if you disclose what companies you are writing code for and not just plain namedropping, but disclaim the actual products you are involved with.

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

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Since 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.

You can easily use Web Scrapping using Javascript dataextraction and storing into a CSV.

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

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post #46

While 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 re…

I thought the concept is "ai" websites, why do you write it is sound?

"Sound" in this context means "makes sense".

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

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post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you write code for companies that go out of business because A. many customers are dying because of the incautiously produced and sold products they sell or B. lawyers kick out of business before any real damage will be done, you are not a prospective Shopify user and don't benefit from the well-maintained application architecture which benefits from the prospects of separation of concern and distributed, or more…

Sorry, what? Are you implying that companies I write code for go out of business? Why do you think that? >well-maintained application architecture Tsk tsk. >WooCommerce Hell I have never experienced this. Can you elaborate?

That dude seems unnaturally defensive of shopify for some reason...I'd just ignore it and move on

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

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Since 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.

You can easily use Web Scrapping using Javascript dataextraction and storing into a CSV.

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