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Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by tr1ll10nb1ll »

philip1209 wrote: post #39
jaredcwhite wrote: post #38

Far be it for me to criticize solo startup products—any achievement in this space is immense! But in general…something that routinely irks me is the lack of truly outstanding design/typography in a lot of "start a website/blog/whatever in 5 minutes" stuff I see pop up. At least this isn't using some crappy monospaced font (that trend is so cringe), but…just a basic Tailwind theme isn't all that appealing IMHO. I thin…

Thanks for the feedback! I plan to offer some alternative themes. I chose to spend my time making custom color support robust. For instance, there's dynamic code that determines which label colors have highest contrast on buttons depending on the theme color. So, there's some abstracted complexity there. While the Postcard marketing page looks a little tailwind-y, I hope that the individual homepages look more polish…

It doesn’t look just a little Tailwind-y. It IS in fact a made of unmodified (in terms of design) components from TailwindUI stacked on a Hotwire+Rails website.

  An example (the hero section)

  - https://tailwindui.com/components/marketing/sections/heroes
  - https://tailwindui.com/components/application-ui/lists/grid-lists
Since I’m guessing what the OP posted is an MVP, it’s perfectly acceptable and the product seems alright, just hope they do make homepages more distinct and polished like you said starting with their own.

On a more serious note, the OP might want to radically modify the design of these asap (I’m not sure if even that would make this project fall under TailwindUI’s license).

The License that TailwindUI provides (https://tailwindui.com/license) states:

  Examples of usage not allowed by the license:

  - Creating a "website builder" project where end users can build their own websites using components or templates included with or derived from Tailwind UI.

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by tr1ll10nb1ll »

Hey OP, you’ve got a great project going! But have you considered that you might be violating TailwindUI’s license?

I’m not sure either but bringing it your attention, just in case you might be.

The License that TailwindUI provides (https://tailwindui.com/license) states:

  Examples of usage not allowed by the license:

  - Creating a "website builder" project where end users can build their own websites using components or templates included with or derived from Tailwind UI.
A way to circumvent this would be to create a branding and a design system for Postcard that looks distinct [as much as possible from TailwindUI components] and adhere to that design system for everything. Just use TailwindUI for the primitive blocks, not the design.

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by Brajeshwar »

This is nice. Congratulations and best of luck.

For those looking for such similar offerings, I find Carrd a good alternative too. Last time I checked, for as low as __$20 a year__, you get a whole lot of templates and ready to publish (on your own domain) and you can build as many sites as you need. I just keep it one around for something real quick where I need just some text and information or a contact form. I do not even want to use my own website templates that I have.

https://carrd.co/pro

P.S. No relationship with Carrd. Just another happy customer.

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by anthropodie »

davidbanham wrote: post #24
stolenmerch wrote: post #21

Honest, good faith question here. One stated goal of building this is because you "deleted most social media, but still wanted a way to keep in touch with friends and my network." How does this solve that? Keeping in touch is not about the web presence, it's about the network. How does this work differently than something like about.me?

This has an email newsletter built in. People can subscribe via the site and you can publish newsletters through their back end.

In India, the only thing people use email for is when they are applying for jobs or other official requirements. Email is never used for personal communication. Forget about general public even the IT crowd does not use email for anything personal.

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by calculated »

greentea22 wrote: post #54
philip1209 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the checkout page, there is an $80/year option. I just didn't want to complicate the marketing page, but it seems like I should add the optional yearly pricing there.

$8 a month is ridiculously overpriced.

I second this but at the same time the founder has a point. Since the average user can't create a blog with GH Pages or whatever else for free, he'll be willing to pay $8 for this product. The average customer won't be from the tech space and $8 would seem like "oh just $8 and I can have a personal website? easy!" so I'd say keep the price as is.

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by nprateem »

calculated wrote: post #77
greentea22 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$8 a month is ridiculously overpriced.

I second this but at the same time the founder has a point. Since the average user can't create a blog with GH Pages or whatever else for free, he'll be willing to pay $8 for this product. The average customer won't be from the tech space and $8 would seem like "oh just $8 and I can have a personal website? easy!" so I'd say keep the price as is.

They're competing with WordPress which is much cheaper and more fully featured

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by nprateem »

jlawlz wrote: post #70

Hey! From a technical and product polish standpoint this looks great. That being said I have never really dived into making a personal website partly because I'm not sure what I'd do with it (looks like you've lowered the barrier to entry though). What do you see as the main use cases are for a personal website generally, and postcard specifically?

You're supposed to talk about your kids and pets and other random crap no one cares about. At least that's what we did in the 90s :D

Re: Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

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Post by jacques-noris »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #74

This is nice. Congratulations and best of luck. For those looking for such similar offerings, I find Carrd a good alternative too. Last time I checked, for as low as __$20 a year__, you get a whole lot of templates and ready to publish (on your own domain) and you can build as many sites as you need. I just keep it one around for something real quick where I need just some text and information or a contact form. I do…

I second that. Carrd looks better, has more templates and the support is awesome. And much cheaper. Have been using it for years, and can strongly recommend it for simple sites. Not affiliated with them.
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