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

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Post by ddm379 »

suprjami wrote: post #42

Idea for improvement: show the webpage creation interface without needing signup. I want to see what it's like to use without making an account. I won't bother with sites which immediately ask for login. This doesn't have to be an interactive demo, just screenshots are fine. I suspect I'm not the target audience anyway. I'd rather write a custom Jekyll theme and use git to publish with the GitHub Pages push hook. Thi…

I second this noting that folks reading here, specifically, probably wouldn't benefit the most from it. What I'm thinking is it'd be nice to see before referring it to a non-technical relative or friend who doesn't even know what git is.

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

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Post by ddm379 »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #22

Personal websites should be personalized tho. It's like Facebook vs Myspace. Myspace allowed you to easily personalize your page, and there were tons of really cool unique pages. Facebook killed personal expression; you get to pick a cover photo, a personal photo, make posts, and that's it. Then they dominated the world, and an entire generation grew up never knowing that the internet used to be fun.

I don't miss Myspace, but it would be nice to force my visitors to hear a ska song on autoplay.

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

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

philip1209 wrote: post #53
last_responder wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will do ! Thank you . Wanted to let you know I am now a paying customer. Cloudflare auth worked perfectly.

Excellent, thanks so much! The DNS integration tool is is https://entri.com - they're doing a great job.

Where is there pricing?

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

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Post by philip1209 »

laurex wrote: post #65

How does it compare to Ghost, which also has an awesome nonprofit business model?

It's a little simpler and less expensive.

Ghost is made for subscription businesses. Postcard is more for personal/hobbyist use, and is optimized for non-technical folks to get a custom domain online in just a few minutes!

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

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Post by Caduceus1 »

e-clinton wrote: post #17

Looks pretty good. Congrats. You selected good examples that make it feel relatable for me. Don’t love the price. I’m a big fan of small once/year pricing which makes it an impulse purchase… to justify this at $8/month I would need to actively be doing something with it

For $2 a month i would've signed up, $8 is too much for what is offered, and just not in my budget for something like this.

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

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Post by philip1209 »

dankwizard wrote: post #68

All examples linking off the home page are down, such as yours Phillip. Error code 520.

Oh no! I have error and uptime monitoring, and it hasn't reported anything. As I'm clicking through, everything seems to be online.

So, hopefully it was just an intermittent failure! Would you mind trying again?

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

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Post by jlawlz »

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?
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