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Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by yawnxyz »

Hmm I built something like this on top of Svelte Cloudflare workers API, and the configs controller for the site itself is using a Notion table.

The reason I built this to replace a Wordpress site is because the rest of our ecosystem is a bunch of Svelte apps, and with this we could just drop content from Notion straight into our site.

We can even use fancy pants things like synced blocks for site-wide announcements, etc. etc.

One caveat with using Notion though is that without a good caching strategy (which we don't have), the site's going to be pretty slow, because Notion's API just fetches block by block. You have to have a "cache mode" for production - something that fetches and caches every X amount of time, and have users hit the cache rather than straight from Notion, since it sometimes can take 10+ seconds, which will time out your worker.

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by yawnxyz »

shoto_io wrote: post #14

What's the thing about notion anyway? Can someone explain what I am missing out on and how it compares to other tools out there like google docs?

I wish in Google Docs you could smash a Google Sheets (with sorting, filters, editing) right into a Docs. Google Docs also don't let you link to other docs by @docname-ing them, and creating tables of linked documents.

Google needs to hurry up with their Workspaces and build something closer to Notion or Coda

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by zapt02 »

ljm wrote: post #36

The beauty of the web is that you can take something and then make something else out of it. I love that. Potion has pricing though. And I'm not gonna pay, because I don't know what the setup is - am I paying for Potion to run a Notion account with my stuff in, and then they layer on top? Or are they reselling part of their own account? Or do I need to pay for a Notion account also?

It's built on top of Notion, so you pay for Notion and you pay for Potion as well. :-)

Actually it's a bit funny because Potion is 2.5x more expensive than the Personal plan on Notion, even though the utility of Potion is provably smaller.

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by zapt02 »

yawnxyz wrote: post #41

Hmm I built something like this on top of Svelte Cloudflare workers API, and the configs controller for the site itself is using a Notion table. The reason I built this to replace a Wordpress site is because the rest of our ecosystem is a bunch of Svelte apps, and with this we could just drop content from Notion straight into our site. We can even use fancy pants things like synced blocks for site-wide announcements,…

Could you use CF KV for this?

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-kv/

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by danuker »

pydry wrote: post #40
rchaud wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more for existing Notion users that may wish to have a tiny microsite about something. Someone already invested in Notion isn't going to care about self-hosting.

A tiny microsite for $120/year tho.

As opposed to what? Hosting your own server for $120/yr in electricity, but with hardware costs on top?

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by khanmaytok »

pydry wrote: post #40
rchaud wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more for existing Notion users that may wish to have a tiny microsite about something. Someone already invested in Notion isn't going to care about self-hosting.

A tiny microsite for $120/year tho.

I prefer to use Github Pages

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by zoozla »

chasebank wrote: post #25
zoozla wrote: post #17

Potion is an awesome project and Noah is a great guy. Been paying him for a while with https://softdiscipline.com , not planning to stop any time soon.

Very off topic but you live in Nelson!!?? Whitewater is such an awesome hill and Baldface is all time! What a great playground you have!

I do and it is!

Ping me on Twitter @finereli, let's connect!

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by aetherspawn »

I haven't been this excited about a website builder for a long time. I can definitely see myself switching from Squarespace to this!

Could you please clarify whether we can use something like AWS CloudFront or Cloudflare in front of this without issues?

Edit: Really need hierarchical nav menu's though. That's an immediate killer. I'll switch right now if you say that you can support submenus in the next month or so.

Edit 2: Another suggestion, can we have per-page injection? And split the content injection capabilities so we can inject in either the header or the footer? This would be useful, for example, if we want to inject less important scripts or styles at the bottom of the page so that we don't drop lighthouse ranking. This is a low priority feature request.

Re: Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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Post by somebodythere »

danuker wrote: post #46
pydry wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A tiny microsite for $120/year tho.

As opposed to what? Hosting your own server for $120/yr in electricity, but with hardware costs on top?

What microsite costs $120/yr in electricity to run?
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