that's incredible! Good job bringing back the fun of Geocities yet making everything modern
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#52This is pretty fun, but I can't figure out how you do most of what you have on the home page. I'm not sure if it's just me or some of the coolest things are too hard to discover. A few examples: When I go to shapes they're all 2d and I can't find a way to make them 3d like yours are. I'm also not sure how to rotate objects, even if I click on the rotated YouTube video I can't figure out how to do it/how I can change its rotation.
Also is this a typo? "Every page is mindlessly responsive so they work across screen sizes" Should mindlessly be automatically?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think now that many live in a youtube/twitter/twitch/facebook/insta sandbox where you can't customize your "space" very much, those days of people crafting their own corner of the internet is really gone.
I can imagine that this product would transition very well into a social network that creatives, artists and such would find very appealing.
Yes!! Why not, the website as art? As the medium and the message? A network of creative expression? Or as a "diary" where every entry is more scrapbook-y and less uniform blog?
Could be fun. We need more fun.
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#54All apple gestures (pinch to zoom, 2 finger swipe for navigation) don't work at all. That's kind of a deal breaker for me ...
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#55I found it amusing that the 'stroke' tab of the sticker presets gives you a variety of random brush strokes, smudges etc. It also gives you a single sticker of a brain flashing 'aphasia', which is a literal type of medical stroke that causes brain damage and possibly insensitive on that tab!
Looks like it just searches giphy.com for transparent GIFs.
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#56This is pretty fun, but I can't figure out how you do most of what you have on the home page. I'm not sure if it's just me or some of the coolest things are too hard to discover. A few examples: When I go to shapes they're all 2d and I can't find a way to make them 3d like yours are. I'm also not sure how to rotate objects, even if I click on the rotated YouTube video I can't figure out how to do it/how I can change…
The 3d shapes are images, so "Add Image" rather than "Add Shape". You would have to find your own images.
To rotate, click on something and move your cursor just to the outside of one of the corners. Your cursor will change to a curved arrow, and you can rotate.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can imagine that this product would transition very well into a social network that creatives, artists and such would find very appealing.
Yes!! Why not, the website as art? As the medium and the message? A network of creative expression? Or as a "diary" where every entry is more scrapbook-y and less uniform blog? Could be fun. We need more fun.
Honestly, because it takes work. I'm not even talking about technical work, but creative work. To do this well, you want to think about your message and then about how to convey that message not just in the content, but in how the content is presented (sometimes geocities-esque chaos isn't quite the right vibe). Then you need to figure out how to fit that presentation into the assumptions of your web technology (I personally feel like the DOM is a straitjacket, but I'll concede since I don't work heavily in the front-end myself, maybe there are cute hacks that make it less so, short of just making the page a full canvas for something else like three.js)
Anyway, I've developed two "fun" pages myself, playing around with alternative ways to present content on the web:
1. https://maxsond.github.io/ (website traversal as interactive fiction)
2. http://tilde.town/~indigo/ (website traversal as pseudo-CLI)
Neither of them really flesh it out to what one might consider a full website, but are more light-weight experiments in alternative ways webpages can present content.
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#58Hey HN! Been thinking about something like this for a long time, and finally decided to work on it three months ago. Excited to show everyone today! . ———— TLDR ———— I built a website builder (works on desktop & mobile) that makes it easy to create automatically-responsive, collage-like websites -- websites that allow you to overlap text, images, GIFs, YouTube videos, etc. etc. Check it out @ https://build.mmm.page F…
Awesome work, I really like what you're doing with this. I created my own personal page and followed each of the steps. However, I can't update the email, Twitter and IG links on each button. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? I'm on desktop using FF.
Those buttons are filler buttons, you have to drag a new button out to customize it (it showed a message about this for me, perhaps the developer updated it since your comment?)
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#59Great alternative to the likes of linktree. Nice and intuitive too.
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#60This feels like it’s in the same family as straw.page[1]. Both are a really refreshing break from homogeneous minimalist web design that’s taken hold over the past few years.
[1]: https://straw.page/start / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124581