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Re: Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

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post #72

I would rather pay $79 USD a month for this than what I get with leadpages that I mostly use for easy editing/creation. One click editing was awesome right on the homepage. Love this and can imagine using it for a number of quick things. If I were leadpages or a similar company I'd buy this outright right now before y'all build up your own community and the price reflects that. If you're thinking of a model I'd sugge…

> export full css/html/etc for like $9 a project

What about View Page Source > mypage.html? I like the idea of paying per project somehow but this particular method seems not strong

Re: Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

#132
post #5

> Websites shouldn't all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect. I really like the design aesthethic this product encourages. There's so much charm and fun and eccentricity that's lost in a web where full-height responsive image backgrounds and blocky design frameworks are ubiquitous. If this can help people express just a little bit of the wild creativity of things like early 2000's MySpace layout…

I don't know, on the other hand, "random" is kind of a tired aesthetic.

Little inspires less confidence about someone's creativity than schizophrenic jumbles of gifs.

Besides, there wasn't a reduction in fun and eccentricity. So lets permit for a second that being "random" and being fun and eccentric are the same thing (they're not). Part of fun and eccentric moved to video games, the real safe space on the Internet for it. Part of it went away because personal websites became public facing destinations in a way MySpace and Geocities pages never really were.

And before you say that MySpace was a public facing destination, it is proving my point that musicians rapidly moved away from it long before Spotify homogenized the way we access music - it wasn't a music industry thing. It's that Instagram does a better job at doing what MySpace did, and it's because non-random people just communicate with pictures of themselves, particularly their bodies, as the lowest common denominator.

Why is the loss of "wild creativity" no real great loss? Ultimately we can appreciate how hard it is to design nice looking stuff a lot more. Even nostalgia for that old Internet you're talking about is kind of toxic, especially to people who are genuinely random, because nostalgia is a huge obstacle to getting people to try new things. And that's why maybe those blocky design frameworks are here to stay - because stuff that feels visually familiar on something that doesn't really matter, like a website, convinces the visitor to try something new that does matter - whatever you're writing, composing, making, etc. that you're putting on the web in the first place.

Re: Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

#136
post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I think this is an excellent point. I'd love to do something like that for my product as well. However, there are a few considerations, some of bigger consequence than others: - How do you keep users from losing their data when they leave and come back? Cookies with an ID are a brittle solution. You could have a unique link, where the user's work is saved right up until they want to register - How do you deal with…

You could require a login after someone has added at least 5 objects and/or spent at least 5 minutes making edits. This makes sure that if data is lost, it's nothing that can't be easily recreated. After at least 30 seconds of activity, you can display a prominent banner at the top of the page that says "make a free account to ensure your work is saved". Then it's clear that your ability to retrieve their data upon t…

These are all really good, creative ideas!

Re: Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

#138
post #5

> Websites shouldn't all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect. I really like the design aesthethic this product encourages. There's so much charm and fun and eccentricity that's lost in a web where full-height responsive image backgrounds and blocky design frameworks are ubiquitous. If this can help people express just a little bit of the wild creativity of things like early 2000's MySpace layout…

I don't know, on the other hand, "random" is kind of a tired aesthetic. Little inspires less confidence about someone's creativity than schizophrenic jumbles of gifs. Besides, there wasn't a reduction in fun and eccentricity. So lets permit for a second that being "random" and being fun and eccentric are the same thing (they're not). Part of fun and eccentric moved to video games, the real safe space on the Internet…

Seeing websites as just being a tool to get you to the thing “that does matter” is a shame. There’s a place for that for sure, but that’s all the modern web is now. I miss the time when the site itself was an expression of the person who made it.

Re: Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

#140
post #5

> Websites shouldn't all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect. I really like the design aesthethic this product encourages. There's so much charm and fun and eccentricity that's lost in a web where full-height responsive image backgrounds and blocky design frameworks are ubiquitous. If this can help people express just a little bit of the wild creativity of things like early 2000's MySpace layout…

MySpace was immediate reference too. I miss the jankiness and imperfections of the 2000s web
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