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Re: Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

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Post by have_faith »

simonhamp wrote: post #15

My website is a single page, HTML only (no trackers or cookies), very little CSS and JS. "responsive" without any media queries and only a few images. It's completely free to host on Netlify. I don't market it heavily and I don't know how much traffic it gets - and I don't care. I completely own it and it does its job. Why would I pass this off to some company?

That's great but why is that relevant? can non technical people reach feature parity with what Ohayo is offering using your approach without wasting time (money) on learning how to cobble a site together?

Re: Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

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Post by contravariant »

ecedeno wrote: post #13
Teichopsia wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're thinking of "ahogo". "Ahoyo" doesn't have a meaning but "hoyo" does and it means hole.

Ahoyo does have a meaning. It's a conjugation of the (not commonly used) verb ahoyar https://dle.rae.es/ahoyar

So it means 'I dig a hole'?

Re: Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

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Post by williamdclt »

vngzs wrote: post #3
Nextgrid wrote: post #2

No custom domains support?

Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new one.

> I'd probably start looking for a new one.

You might, but I think most people would not (for example: me, I don't care one bit). Most people wouldn't even notice the domain, and most people wouldn't know what to do with this information ("the URL is ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy and not amazing-therapy.com? OK, what does that mean?").

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Post by threatofrain »

williamdclt wrote: post #27
vngzs wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new one.

> I'd probably start looking for a new one. You might, but I think most people would not (for example: me, I don't care one bit). Most people wouldn't even notice the domain, and most people wouldn't know what to do with this information ("the URL is ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy and not amazing-therapy.com? OK, what does that mean?").

Correct or not, I would bet most people have the noisy association that different domains means different entities as far as credibility works.

In other words, mimicking the look of a bank is probably good enough to make money, but not enough to make most people believe without the domain.

Re: Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

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Post by solmanac »

hdctambien wrote: post #4

Is this the same thing as about.me? I signed up for that 10? years ago when I saw it on hacker news [1]. And that was apparently just a clone of flavors.me Are these just sites that ask you to enter a ton of personal data so they can sell it? Or are people benefiting from this? More than a LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram or wix or Google site or free hosted WordPress or medium? I had an idea for a site sellmyinfo.co…

If you are being serious, how about you start that sell my info site? In the process you'd get insights into the flow of money and information among the companies in that industry and then share that with us as well.
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