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If you need any inspiration from similar products (I was building this exact thing with a friend for the last week or so, gonna toss that in the bin now haha): https://grapesjs.com/ https://pinegrow.com/tailwind-visual-editor/ Here's a video of what we were working on, if anyone's curious: https://streamable.com/9elv76 I swear the zeitgeist/collective unconscious is real.
That's rad. What did you use to build it?
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I completely agree, OP could absolutely make this a COSS (commercial open source software) service.
That's the goal :) But without artificially limiting features.
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This feels like such a ludicrous concept, but also I love it. I've recently fallen back into the world of building static marketing sites and the tooling is now so sophisticated, cheap and undifferentiated. We're solving the same problem over and over in very similar ways. I generally despise all-in-one solutions, but this use case actually makes a lot of sense at this point.
I don't know about ludicrous — this is essentially the same USP you get from Squarespace, Wix, etc., but just without the "and we host the resulting site for you" part. In trade for not doing the hosting, it becomes just a native app you can own, rather than a subscription service. Just need a commodity web host to slap it up on.
I suggest NearlyFreeSpeech. It has an outdated UI and it's very DIY, but the pricing is very good. They have an option for static sites, with a lower price.
Congrats!
Uses ProseMirror [1] internally. Nice choice! [1] https://prosemirror.net/
ProseMirror and CodeMirror. Those guys do great work.
Why give this away? You could have a good business. You’re leaving money on the table.
I don't get it. There are dozens of amazing open source projects posted on HN every week, and on average, the ones out of these that are outstanding and could be turned into a business model are countless every month. So I don't understand what makes this project stand out so much that it's like leaving money on the table. (this is the first time I'm seeing a comment where the money is apparently on the table because…
This type of approach lets a technical person work with the marketing team so that the site can be both easy to update and optimized for business needs.
You’re right that good software/service does not automatically mean profit, but you’re missing the understanding that if you serve a hungry demographic, you only need a MVP to bring in revenue.
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Is that project front page an IDE?
It's part of the app since it also serves as the dashboard once you log in, but ideally it would be separate
Since this needs a lot of code to actually create a site, why not create a CMS instead that can be connected through an API to a SSG?
Using ".af", the top-level domain for Afghanistan, so your domain is pronounced "primo dot A.F." is a little on the nose.