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Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

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Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#42

Check out type room. pretty similar, but works on non hosted sites as well. Also, Sythasite is very close in a lot of ways....check them out also. I am sure you have already seen these, but they are 2 outstanding competitors. Any answer to them?

Usability! ;-)

In all seriousness, Viviti and typeroom share some of the same features, but it looks like typeroom is an editing tool, not a hosted solution, and that's not a market we're interested in.

Synthasite is also a useful tool, but when it comes right down to it, the design of any tool makes some things impossible, some things doable, and some things easy. We're aiming to make some previously impossible things doable and some previously hard things easy, and I think so far, we're succeeding. ;-)

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#43
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Parksville, Vancouver Island!

Ok, so how the hell did you find 4 rails guys in fricken' Parksville?

Some of us geeks like to spend our time away from computers climbing, kayaking, hiking, snowboarding, mountain biking, sailing, or camping... for such a life, Vancouver Island is hard to beat :)

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#44
This is pretty slick... I've been putting off creating a site for some side projects. This may be just the ticket!

My question/feature request: Is there a way to share edit access with more than one user? This would be especially useful for the blogging features, to allow multiple contributors.

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#45

This is pretty slick... I've been putting off creating a site for some side projects. This may be just the ticket! My question/feature request: Is there a way to share edit access with more than one user? This would be especially useful for the blogging features, to allow multiple contributors.

Not yet, but there will be. We have some pretty cool plans for multi-user stuff for reasons you've stated, and others :)

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#46
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Wordpress has web analytics built into the main blog dashboard. It's nice. I could drop code into a theme, but I kinda like the ease of use there.

I guess that if it come down to features, it's going to be difficult to beat old-timers off the bat. You say that apart from that, you'd switch. Why? Just something else r anything particularly good about this?

the site is very good, but i'll have to agree with op (of this comment). analytics is very important. i would switch from wordpress to this because this has a lot more options than a blogging engine but it still can be used as one.

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#47
As others have said, awesome site. Seems like you've done just about everything right.

I'm curious how you came up with your site's Terms of Service, which seem well done and comprehensive. Did a lawyer come up with that or did you come up with it yourselves?

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#48

A code-free experience is presumably for non-geeks, right? Your signup form has a field called "hostname". Nitpicky, but... How many non-geeks have the vaguest idea wtf that means?

IMO this is not nitpicky - it's a crucial implementation detail. In a quick scan of the main page I saw two similar tech-speaks:

- Use your own domain name (why not 'website address')

- ..with no code (what does 'no code' mean to a non tech person??)

This looks like a good product, but to really address the target audience it needs wording to them (or maybe you need different versions for different types of customer?). See if you can borrow someone's granny for the acid test.

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#49
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The tool itself is wonderful. I'd switch my blog from wordpress to it, if it had analytics, and I knew you'd be around a year from now. Minor thing on signup: Password: ancmthdnvu Password Strength: You're kidding, right? Password: 123456 Password Strength: Admirable

What did you mean by 'had analytics?' Google Analytics? If that's your issue, I think you could drop the code into the 'theme' & that'd do it.

> you could drop the code...

> with no code and no hassle.

See the issue now?

Re: Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)

#50

A code-free experience is presumably for non-geeks, right? Your signup form has a field called "hostname". Nitpicky, but... How many non-geeks have the vaguest idea wtf that means?

IMO this is not nitpicky - it's a crucial implementation detail. In a quick scan of the main page I saw two similar tech-speaks: - Use your own domain name (why not 'website address') - ..with no code (what does 'no code' mean to a non tech person??) This looks like a good product, but to really address the target audience it needs wording to them (or maybe you need different versions for different types of customer?…

I agree. "Code" may not mean much to non-technical people. Something like "no programming" might be more meaningful, although I'm wondering if you could even leave it out altogether.
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