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Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
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#142> 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…
> I don't know, on the other hand, "random" is kind of a tired aesthetic.
In graphic design (as I learnt it 20 years ago) there's broadly two categories, stable and dynamic. A stable design follows the rules, has quite a logical structure, and even a dilettante can easily use templates to make one without even understanding the rules all that well.
OTOH, to execute a dynamic design well you need to have a strong intuition for aesthetics, as well as a deep understanding of the rules. My teacher put it more plainly, you need to understand the rules to break them properly - otherwise it just looks like you screwed up.
The tool provides full freedom to break the rules, it doesn't mean everyone will break them well, but it does open more possibilities for a capable designer. And if there's anything tired, it's the same-y stable designs that cover almost the entirety of the web.
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#143This is awesome! Love the solution to responsiveness, that's really clever.
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#144Hey 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…
Just launched on PH if anyone wants to show some support !
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#145Earlier 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…
Fantastic tips. I think some of that will end up in my own work.
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#146Earlier 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…
I never watch videos personally, but that's more because most of them are terrible and don't help than anything (they either just talk about it and never show the actual product, or take 5 minutes introducing themselves before the 1 minute demo, etc.). I'm sure it could be done right though, but I'd bet other people have also been trained not to click videos. The email gate sounds good (except don't generate a passwo…
Yeah, I can't stand those videos. With anything I do, it's straight to the content and as short as possible always. Though I agree with you about videos in general. I always prefer text-based tutorials. But many friends of mine are video fiends, so I always make both :)
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#147Earlier 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…
Serializing the user's session state to LocalStorage comes to mind as a reasonable solution. Comes with it's own caveats, of course (you now have a state versioning problem), but addresses all the points you bring up pretty adequately: 1. As long as their on the same device/browser, they lose zero data. This is a pretty reliable happy-path use case. 2. The only onslaught you'll deal with is simple pageviews since eve…
Very good point about LocalStorage, I haven't explored that avenue yet.
Re your second point, unfortunately with my product this works a bit differently. I'm generating static websites in the background, as part of a realtime-preview functionality. That, unfortunately leads to reasonably high server load.
I'll have to have a think about how to approach that in the future :)
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#148Too fun! https://mmm.page/kicks.condor Anyone else making a page out there?
https://mmm.page/sex.sells
I did the first thing people do when new domain is available - go through hot words and park lol
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#149Why is everyone forcing email logins? How can i give this to my coworker to work on with my email if he doesnt have a password? What is the easy solution for me without me having to forward the login email each time?
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#150I wish the "edit" button was more visible. I noticed it only on my second visit. After I found it, I enjoyed playing with the page and the first hand experience a lot more than reading about it. During my first visit I wasn't impressed but now the product looks cool to me.
Yes, I also saw Sign up first and at the time I was about to leave I noticed the Edit button.
It mentioned I can "click Edit and try" but it was not clear I can do that immediately at the landing page without registration.