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Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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Please change `width: 100vw` to `width: 100%` in the header element on your landing page. It results in the horizontal scroll bar in the bottom of the screen (you will see it if you view your landing page on something other than a mac).

done

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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Landing page is crisp and precise. I love the idea. Congratulations on the launch. Auto-complete is fast and relevant. I believe you're boosting local results? That's super nice. The generated webpage is nicely filled with details from Google Maps (?) along with reviews and a contact-us form. I like the overall simplicity of adding and editing subsections of the pages, too. Kudos. Quick questions: 1. From where'd you…

1. Google Places API.

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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Landing page is crisp and precise. I love the idea. Congratulations on the launch. Auto-complete is fast and relevant. I believe you're boosting local results? That's super nice. The generated webpage is nicely filled with details from Google Maps (?) along with reviews and a contact-us form. I like the overall simplicity of adding and editing subsections of the pages, too. Kudos. Quick questions: 1. From where'd you…

Thanks for the good questions!

1. Mostly google maps and social networks

2. At the moment we don't have a "back-office" integration, we have a rudimentary editor that can be manually edited at the back of our "Products & Services" feature and if the user provides their PayPal merchant ID we add "Purchase" and "Subscribe" and "Pay Invoice" buttons wherever it makes sense.

3. We have a number of ideas for that, including specialized business platform integrations, custom domain names, and other features that would be used by businesses that we think should be on a paid plan.

4. We've been working on this for a few months now, we were inspired by the readily available and fresh data and the price (in time and/or $$) to get a decent website created and updated for a small shop people like restaurants, barbers, nannies, garages, etc.

5. Given your business category, location, amount of data available and other signals we try to be smart about what your site should look like and what sections should be where. That stuff has been figured out with A/B testing every day for the past 20 years and humans should move on. That also means we can generate the website in real-time, for the specific business and the individual visitor making the request...

6. Heroku + EC2, mongo atlas for the DB and lots or nodejs and react. letsencrypt for the certs.

7. It means we're able to shape the site depending on the history of the visitor. For example we'll show a menu first to a visitor who is likely hungry.

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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post #15

Landing page is crisp and precise. I love the idea. Congratulations on the launch. Auto-complete is fast and relevant. I believe you're boosting local results? That's super nice. The generated webpage is nicely filled with details from Google Maps (?) along with reviews and a contact-us form. I like the overall simplicity of adding and editing subsections of the pages, too. Kudos. Quick questions: 1. From where'd you…

Thanks for the good questions! 1. Mostly google maps and social networks 2. At the moment we don't have a "back-office" integration, we have a rudimentary editor that can be manually edited at the back of our "Products & Services" feature and if the user provides their PayPal merchant ID we add "Purchase" and "Subscribe" and "Pay Invoice" buttons wherever it makes sense. 3. We have a number of ideas for that, includi…

> For example we'll show a menu first to a visitor who is likely hungry.

How would you possibly know this?

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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From the terms of service... “ In other words, you grant us and our subsidiaries affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media.” lol nope

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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post #3

This is a pretty solid, simple idea, gotta say. Of all the "quick website" apps, this approach seems like it could get a pretty good result from the get-go, given a good amount of social media / website information available for the business.

Curious, what other quick website apps you know of? Not low code, but quick. I've seen https://milkshake.app , https://onuniverse.com before and walked away impressed. https://glideapps.com is in a similar domain, but for apps.

Strikingly is one

Re: Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

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From the terms of service... “ In other words, you grant us and our subsidiaries affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media.” lol nope

soooo.... same terms as Google Apps then.
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