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Blot turns a folder into a website
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Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
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The next innovation I expect to see on HN is a service that, on a set schedule, gathers articles about a set of topics that you follow, prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal. This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sha…
Sometimes I wish you could link directly to specific comments on HN to pass around... Although it needs the context to really appreciate the funny.
The link to a sepecific comment is on the timestamp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38810949
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#103How about dynamic data from remote db ?
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#104if only this website didnt autoplay
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#105I built something similar - https://github.com/mxsjoberg/md2website
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#106I love this service. Happy customer!
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Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.
Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.
The interesting question is how did you arrive at this site layout where the pricing is hidden in the sign up page when every single SaaS site on the internet has a pricing link in the header and in the footer. Genuinely curious.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine. Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo. 1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot
Fair point – I have just added: https://blot.im/pricing
Some people are pointing out that they found it easy to read your pricing before you added this site. I’d like to offer a different perspective. So many tech products and startups lack this sort of easy to find clarity.
Many times in my professional life we’ve dismissed products we might have bought if they had a pricing page as clear as yours. Not so much because they necessarily did anything wrong, but because we rarely have the time to “research” tech products that are “nice” but not “necessary”. So where some companies might have sold us an eternal product license for $5 a month, they didn’t because they didn’t have this sort of pricing page, where they very clearly explain the exact price of their product in as few words as possible. Some may find that ridiculous, but I’m fairly certain that if we do this, then others does as well as we’re very rarely unique.
One of the consequences of having done this professionally at many organisations for two decades is that I also do it as a private person. Maybe that’s even more lazy, but it is what it is.
So I think you did well to add this!
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To be fair, it's very clearly fronted on the Sign Up form, which has a prominent button in the top right corner. A dedicated Pricing page/section would be nice simply because people often look for it, but it's not like they're trying to be sneaky or use dark patterns.
Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.
Ye "sign up" implies that you have accepted the pricing.
A common dark pattern is that you need to enter PI to get to the pricing so that they can call spam you forever. (I am not accusing the linked site of doing it, I haven't checked.)